Ahh, I agree the atmosphere of black and white is a lot better than colour, which shows through well in your screen shots (I have downloaded it, but I'm having to get winrar too to decompress). I think the trilogy did it for me because of the magnitude of it. I like the whole post-appocolyptic concept (mad max, waterworld, the postman, the termintor world etc. etc.), but the dead trilogy is the best because the world is totally intact, it's just a leathal place to live. This is probably why I like the forthcoming resident evil trilogy, as well as 28 days later etc.
Call me a psycho (and I know if it were real I'd be crapping my pants and hate every second of it!) but I always thought the scenes in Dawn of the Dead were wicked, and I'd like to experience the freedom, yet danger of living in that world. Imagine running around that super market, making it your home, protecting it from zombies and thugs. lol. I even wrote a tune with speech samples from that film.
I've always thought it'd be absolutely awe-inspiring to make a game based on Romero's image of a zombie infested america. Imagine the story line you could create, and the atmosphere you could generate by giving the player limited weapons, and watching his/her friends die. All the scenes you could use - the desolation and isolation, and the limitless possibilities, as well as the constant threat of there being millions of zombies, twisted and deformed in different ways. Child zombies (how that brought the situation home in dawn of the dead), baby zombies even - old people. Crippled zombies, and then obviously the powerful, fully functional ones. It's cool to see you've got the idea to recreate some of this. Personally, I'd love to make the game I've just mentioned, but I'm not one of these unrealistic MMORPG people. I cant honestly see myself recreating that atmosphere in db. I mean, I've played an alpha of Doom 3, and that doesnt even have the desired effect (although its fairly close), so how could I do any better? Which points me towards plan B - get some friends together, get my camcorder, and make my own film! hahaha.
Anyway, just got winrar and checked it out, and I love the b/w TV effect you have going on. It's atmospheric already, and I'm sure you could push it forwards a lot more when the zombies get moving. I just walked around the graveyard btw, with no collision etc. Did I get the most up to date download?
As for you loving the zombie on the left - lol - obviously our taste in zombies differs. That's a detrimental incompatibility. I dont see how I can continue talking to you, knowing that you have a different taste in zombies. I mean, Randi ... where can we honestly go from here??? hehe.
Anyway, its all looking really promising, so keep up the good work. When you have it more complete, and you need the ambient sounds and music, let me know and I'll send you some sounds to play with.
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