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The War Z aiming for realism, no real objectives
Posted: 29.07.2012 02:22 by JonahFalcon Comments: 22
The War Z executive producer Sergey Titov wants The War Z to be a realistic, immersive experience where players aren't focused on shooting zombies or people, but exploring the world and surviving as best as possible, while trying to rebuild society in the process.

According to Titov, “It’s up to you if you want to work to rebuild society or destroy it. We really don’t set hardcore goals for you to achieve. As for the game controls and the game feel, it’s more of a shooter. The MMO aspect comes into play because the world will be persistent and populated with many other players besides you.

“There are no quests or missions in the traditional gaming industry sense of the word. We’re not building an objective based game, but instead building a sandbox with lots of tools that will allow players to create their own experiences.”

The developers had brainstorming sessions to determine what would really happen if there was a real zombie apocalypse, even taking into account the economy and social dynamics.

“If you think about our feature set with that perspective it makes more sense,” Titov described, “For example, we have what we call ‘safe settlements,’ that are really not completely safe at all. They are built by people that survived the infestation and are working to rebuild civilization, so they are taking precautions to make sure that their home remains safe. If you obey the rules, there’s no danger for you, but it’s not a place that you can go anytime and expect you’ll be 100% invincible."

As for the economy: “The same thing goes for currency. We’ve seen some comments that gold coins takes away from the realism. But, if you think about it—gold has been around for ages and, until very recently, it was the ultimate measure of wealth. In the game, Wall Street and other financial institutions have collapsed so we’ve reinstated gold’s value as a universal currency.

“That said, it is not the only currency in the world and, we’re not forcing it on the players. Nothing prevents you from taking ammo for guns and using it as currency when bartering with other players.”

The realism even goes as far as things most gamers take for granted, such as reloading. If players only empty half of an ammo clip before replacing it, the bullets in the old clip will be lost. Players will even have to be aware of distance and gravity to compensate for bullet drop.

The War Z is due to be released on PC in 2013.
Source: VG247
Related games: The War Z (PC)

Comments

By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Jul 29, 2012
SirRoderick
What do you mean the bullts in the old clips are lost? that's not realism, unless you're mentally challenged! Just bloody top the mag back up.

Anyway, the rest seems prety interesting ^_^
By JonahFalcon (SI Elite) on Jul 29, 2012
JonahFalcon
Not if you have to quickly pop out the clip and slap in a new one.
By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Jul 29, 2012
SirRoderick
Put mag in pocket, wait till after zombies dead, top up mag.
By nocutius (SI Elite) on Jul 29, 2012
nocutius
The inspiration for this one seems kinda obvious :)
No matter, a good concept is good.
By JonahFalcon (SI Elite) on Jul 29, 2012
JonahFalcon
Actually, the developers have been working on this for over 3 years. It predates Day Z by a good two years.
By nocutius (SI Elite) on Jul 29, 2012
nocutius
Well, they better change the name then cause it gives a VERY strong impression to the contrary. It's contra productive as you could see on my example.

But it makes sense when you actually stop to think about it, one does not simply make a game like this in a year.
By Gale47 (SI Core Veteran) on Jul 29, 2012
Gale47
It would be really cool if they gave us real worktables and tools to work on our gadgets and weapons. I love the idea of loading my pistol's magazines with my bare hands (well, kind of). Or mounting the addons on it at my base. Just an example, of course.
By JonahFalcon (SI Elite) on Jul 29, 2012
JonahFalcon
@nocutius: The big difference is that The War Z is much MUCH bigger in scope, and you don't have to buy ArmA 2 to play it.

World War Z is even more of a similar title - wonder if they'll get a letter with a cease and desist.
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Jul 29, 2012
herodotus
Well I just have this to say, not that anyone's listening at this time of the morning.
If the game is better optimised than "ArmA II -Operation Arrowhead" yet still looks brilliant, and the keystrokes are not a formidable list easily forgotten I'll give it a go - perhaps.
By nocutius (SI Elite) on Jul 29, 2012
nocutius
The bigger the better
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Jul 29, 2012
herodotus
So in other words "Just Cause 2"....with zombies.
It looks promising and sounds great, but then so did "STALKER" in the early previews so I'll keep my healthy suspicions thank you.

Before I am inpaled for dissing "STALKER", when it was released everyone realised it was missing about 50% of what had been promised, and was in fact a watered down version of the original release candidate.
By nocutius (SI Elite) on Jul 29, 2012
nocutius
... and was still better than most of the AAA games of its generation :)

Just so you know, I prefer girls so the impaling will have to wait until someone else comes along :)
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Jul 29, 2012
herodotus
Sex, sex, sex...that's all you think about.
*mutter, mutter*
By nocutius (SI Elite) on Jul 29, 2012
nocutius
I see you speak German, kinky :).
By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Jul 29, 2012
SirRoderick
HA!

Oh that one got a good laugh on my end xD
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Jul 29, 2012
herodotus
I did leave myself open on that one nocc, but I knew it at the time. Just didn't care at 3am.
Knew you'd kick off on this Roderick, vigorously stroking your beard no doubt:)
By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Jul 29, 2012
SirRoderick
Cheers mate ;)
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Jul 29, 2012
herodotus
Just don't dribble on your keyboard too much....
By JonahFalcon (SI Elite) on Jul 30, 2012
JonahFalcon
"So in other words "Just Cause 2"....with zombies."

No.
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Jul 30, 2012
herodotus
'SW:TOR" ....with zombies?.
By Gale47 (SI Core Veteran) on Jul 30, 2012
Gale47
Dead Island with zombies?
No... wait...
By stuntkid (SI Elite) on Jul 31, 2012
stuntkid
@Gale - YES!! ;-)