Frima Studio Partners with Sony on New Undead Brain Muncher for PSP
I have to admit, this is an actual new take on the whole zombie overload
Published: August 21, 2009
Have you noticed that there are a LOT of zombie games fighting for your dollar these days? It's impossible to pinpoint where it all started. I mean, I played Splatterhouse on my NES a million years ago, and since then we have gone through Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Stubbs the Zombie, and countless others. Recent years have seen a glut of games, starting with Dead Rising, and going through Left 4 Dead, Burn, Zombie, Burn, and even Call of Duty : WaW. It literally is Zombie Overload.
But zombies are not the only overused franchise. There was a time when Railroad Tycoon and Roller Coaster Tycoon made being a money grubbing capitalist the coolest thing around. Then it got expanded into Fast Food Tycoon, Golf Tycoon, Prison Tycoon, and even Coffee Tycoon! If it was a job, recreation or foodstuff, it got made into a tycoon game. The shelves of Staples and Office Max were lined with these things. No self respecting gamer would even think of using the CD's these were pressed on even as a coaster.
But Frima Studios and Sony have finally done what was said to be impossible. They have combined the genres in ZOMBIE TYCOON.
For those avoiding the stock market in this recession, apply your managerial skills to amassing live brains rather than cold, hard cash. In Zombie Tycoon, living dead video game aficionados will encounter a completely new set of challenges in their roll as zombie overlord—responsible for the overall strategy of attack and the well-being of their troops in the attempt to spread the undead across the globe. Along with the fast-paced action found in games where players control more self-serving zombies, Frima Studios has added humorous strategies and managerial challenges into the game play for a new take on a classic genre.
Zombie Tycoon is the thinking man’s zombie game,” commented Frima’s CEO Steve Couture. “It is about time for humans to try to understand what it feels like to be a zombie. By putting a humorous zombie army in the player’s control and by having funny items to arm those zombies with, we hope to show the lighter side of the classic zombie genre and the subtleness of zombies’ personality…”
Frima Studios is collaborating with Sony and Telefilm Canada on the release of Zombie Tycoon. The game will be supported by Sony’s new portable game console, PSP Go. However, unlike previous PSP games, Zombie Tycoon will be available exclusively as a download through “The Minis” on Sony’s new Playstation Store.
Visit HERE to see the trailer and more information on the game.
But zombies are not the only overused franchise. There was a time when Railroad Tycoon and Roller Coaster Tycoon made being a money grubbing capitalist the coolest thing around. Then it got expanded into Fast Food Tycoon, Golf Tycoon, Prison Tycoon, and even Coffee Tycoon! If it was a job, recreation or foodstuff, it got made into a tycoon game. The shelves of Staples and Office Max were lined with these things. No self respecting gamer would even think of using the CD's these were pressed on even as a coaster.
But Frima Studios and Sony have finally done what was said to be impossible. They have combined the genres in ZOMBIE TYCOON.
For those avoiding the stock market in this recession, apply your managerial skills to amassing live brains rather than cold, hard cash. In Zombie Tycoon, living dead video game aficionados will encounter a completely new set of challenges in their roll as zombie overlord—responsible for the overall strategy of attack and the well-being of their troops in the attempt to spread the undead across the globe. Along with the fast-paced action found in games where players control more self-serving zombies, Frima Studios has added humorous strategies and managerial challenges into the game play for a new take on a classic genre.
Zombie Tycoon is the thinking man’s zombie game,” commented Frima’s CEO Steve Couture. “It is about time for humans to try to understand what it feels like to be a zombie. By putting a humorous zombie army in the player’s control and by having funny items to arm those zombies with, we hope to show the lighter side of the classic zombie genre and the subtleness of zombies’ personality…”
Frima Studios is collaborating with Sony and Telefilm Canada on the release of Zombie Tycoon. The game will be supported by Sony’s new portable game console, PSP Go. However, unlike previous PSP games, Zombie Tycoon will be available exclusively as a download through “The Minis” on Sony’s new Playstation Store.
Visit HERE to see the trailer and more information on the game.
