You know what plot would make the ultimate zombie survival horror game evar?!

Vieo

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Assuming no one has done it before, this would make the best survival horror game evar!!!

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SYNOPSIS
You play the role of an FBI agent, let's call him Bob. One day Bob gets a weird assignment from his supervisor. He's to escort some guy(they don't tell Bob exactly who he is. you assume he's a really dangerous criminal), named Joe, across the state and assignment calls for Bob to keep Joe handcuffed to one of his wrists at all times.
OK, so Bob starts out on his assignment. They get in a car and drive, though Bob isn't doing the driving himself, another agent is because you know it would be really hard to drive with some dude handcuffed to you.
Fast forward. It's nighttime and they're driving through an area near to a small town with all these cornfields and shyt. Bob dozes off and falls to sleep. Next thing he knows... *!!BAM!!* the car flips over!
Bob wakes up after being unconscious for a few moments. Bob and Joe start crawling out of the upside down car through a window. He has no idea what just happened except the car flipped over. Once out of the car they look around for the driver whose no where to be found at first. This is out in the country mind you so it's all pitch black at night. The only thing lit up is a small portion of road where the headlights are beaming to.
Then Joe is all like.. "Theres an accident ... maybe you should uncuff me." and Bob is all like.. "Nice try! Just look for the driver and don't try anything funny!"
OK, so when they look further up the road, they can see two legs sticking out of the tall grass; easily recognizable as the driver because of the pants and the shoes. First they call over to him. He doesn't move. They call over to him again and his legs start shaking a bit. So Bob is all like.. "We've got to help him!", he drags Joe who is reluctant to do.
When they make it over to the body, they find out the driver wasn't moving because he was alive, he was moving cuz some zombie farmer was munching on him! The zombie then rushes Joe. He starts wrestling with it. Before Bob can draw his firearm, they tumble off the side of the road down a hill. By the time they reach the bottom, Bob shoots and kills the zombie, but not before Joe has several bites in his arm.
They climb their way back to the road. Then Joe says "You better undo these handcuffs." and Bob is like "Give it a rest already. I'm going to radio in for backup". Then Joe informs Bob that he's not a criminal but actually a scientist and that because he was bitten by a zombie, he contracted a disease that will turn him(Joe) into a zombie. After hearing this disturbing news, Bob frantically searches for the keys to the cuffs but discovers to his dismay that when he went tumbling down the hill, he must have lost the key in that super thick grass and had no way of finding it. And because he used up all his ammo on the zombie and he can't shoot the chain off.
Joe then tells Bob that all is not lost because there is a secret lab in the town where there exists a cure and if they can get to it, they'll both live.
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Long story short, you play Bob who is handcuffed to Joe who is slowly turning into a zombie. The game is on a timer of about... 8 hours? You have to make it to the lab in time or else Joe will turn into a zombie and eat your brain-- but wait, there's more! You can't let Joe die or else that 150lbs. of dead weight will surely slow you down enough for the zombies to catch you. ON TOP of that, as the game progresses and the time gets closer to that 8 hour mark, Joe becomes more and more sluggish as the zombification process sets in. If you move too fast, he might trip and fall taking you with him. Through out the game, you can find stuff you can give him like drugs(morphine, adrenaline) that will temporarily make him faster; to use in sticky situations. You have to becareful with it though, because if you overdose him, he'll just end up dead. ALSO, as the game progresses, Joe's memory becomes more and more short term. This is bad because he is basically acting as your navigator to the lab. You get your directions through him. This means, sometimes he'll relay bad info to you! :D

The game world would be exactly like Silent Hill meets GTA but totally action-oriented and no puzzles to slow you down. You can go any where you want in the town provided you can make it past the zombies. I mean, three's a lot of zombies in this game, sometimes as much as 30 on screen and coming at you at once. You'll start off with tree branch as a weapon, and then eventually make your way up to guns(but they're still not strong enough to break the chain on the cuffs). If you find more than one gun, you have to decide whether or not to give it to Joe.. You don't know if you can trust him and he's turning into a zombie-- his aim isn't too good so it might just be a waste of ammo. Or better yet, since the game is set in pitch black darkness, Joe might be the one who holds the flashlight so you can see. Also, because there's two of you, you have to decide who gets the first aid kit. If you die it's game over, but if Joe dies, it's game over as well.

Think of the possibilities!! And the best part is, there wouldn't be any milking of the franchise. How many times can two people end up in that same situation handcuffed to each other? =) :) :D :lol

Now, tell me that wouldn't make the BEST. SURVIVAL. HORROR. EVAR.
 
WACTH!

I bet you.. <looks in wallet..>

WELL, just WATCH. In the near future, theres gonna be a game similar to this where your main character is handcuffed to someone who acts as a major achilles heel. Then every body is gonna be like... "Whoa! This game is hot. How come someone didn't think of this before!?"

Then you'll see this scrolled on the bottom of CNN... "Game Geek's lawsuit against GAMECO, Inc. settled for undisclosed amount."
 
Secret labs, handcuffed together....I liked it the first time I played it, when it was called Whiplash.


Well, I didn't actually play Whiplash. Sorry.
 
this thread reminds me of the building escape scene in shenmue 2. and that makes me happy.

It reminds me of the last fight in the first Shenmue where it's just you and that guy Vs. like 30 of those other guys. That reminds me of Fist of Legend with Jet Li where he goes in that dojo and fights 40 guys at once. Though, in my version, zombies all over!

I like the chained together thing, but not enough weasels!

Someone who understands me! =*(
 
That's actually a cool idea

You see?! Two people agree with me. I'm not crazy. If the idea was polished enough and the right people were working on it, it would make for 'teh in0vativ3 gam3p1ay'! :D
 
zombie ninjas have kidnapped the zombie president! are you a bad enough zombie dude to get him back?
 
you know what would be better? if the zombies where marine recruiters who instead of trying to eat your brains tried to get you to join their zombie marine corps... and instead of lunging at you they hold you by ther pants and try to toss you to the curb. (you lose lives if there's a female nearby)
 
You can't let Joe die or else that 150lbs. of dead weight will surely slow you down enough for the zombies to catch you.
Or you could, you know, just undo the fucking handcuffs.
 
I think the idea is pretty decent. I fear, however, that dragging around a stupid AI character might turn into a real chore. Generally, I dislike it when a game hinders my character's movement and I can invision a lot of situations where it could occur.
 
Ninja Scooter said:
George Brussard is gonna steal your idea. Expect Duke Nukem Forever to feature Duke handcuffed to a pigcop.
Yeah but Vieo's game will still come out before DNF.
 
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