Hideo Kojima wants to make a Zombie MMO

Tags: Hideo Kojima + Zombie + MMO + Metal Gear Solid + pay-to-play

Qu Leheng
Qu Leheng posted on Feb 17th 2007 12:53AM; via computerandvideogames.com/arti...
Hideo Kojima wants to make a Zombie MMO

The fourth Metal Gear Solid is still in the in the middle of construction, but series mastermind Hideo Kojima is already brainstorming his next game, an pay-to-play online game where you hand over cash in exchange for stumbling around as a zombie.

"The zombie idea I have is a bit different," he told our colleagues at Edge magazine. "Imagine a large town where half the inhabitants are zombies. Users would subscribe, get inside the town and get bitten. At that stage they become undead and can't control their character - all they can do is modify the camera angles... They'd see their character attacking humans and have to pay just to watch!"

Sounds... erm, expensive. Kojima continues: "The only way they could end it is by opening another account, hunting themselves down and killing themselves. Of course, the problem is that your second character can get bitten as well."

It's nice to know Mr. Kojima is thinking about original game concepts rather than churning out MGS for the rest of his days (we wouldn't complain), though how well this pay-to-play (or should that be pay-to-not-play?) concept will hold up we're not sure.

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coolbrian

coolbrian says:

That zombie looks oddly familiar...Doom 3 ripoff anyone?

Seeing as no humans control the Zombies...THIS IS JUST LIKE PAYING TO PLAY A SINGLE PLAYER GAME. Of course you have your fellow hunters with you. Now, if the game were designed so that you could control your zombie and after eating 5 humans or so you could turn back into one from acquiring some "Life Force" it might be a little more playable. But that wouldn't work either become everyone knows that once you get bit by a zombie you're gone forever.

We'll see how it turns out.
Posted: 02/23/07 11:46

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ben says:

I think mister kojima has is head pretty far up his ass if he thinks that im going to pay erm...excuse me FORCE ME to pay to watch my guy walk around and eat people till i die, get rid of that idea and, well itd be pretty cool
Posted: 03/01/07 13:54

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Lia says:

He really can't be serious....o_o

He should make a ninja game.
Posted: 03/12/08 20:55

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Jermo says:

why pay it makes no sence...what he should do is put the player in, make a character ranging from medic to soldier to firemen with all the bonuses that go with em. Teh survivors all bond togehter to fight the forces of undead, but when i guy dies you turn to the dead and you turn on your teamates in hopes of making htem a companion once again, if you die you character and all his abilities go by by, but i dont see the point in paying to play a game as...lame, as that, but what do i know im just the guy who plays em.
Posted: 06/22/08 21:50

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im a guest damn it says:

with all those pay to play games.. all those different concepts, players etc. just how much money does he expect to make from this game? i sure hope he has other source of incomes and that he didnt invest anything in marketing because business wise! this is insane! why the hell would i pay to play against brainless npcs zombies!! not to mention is that could actually happen in real life and had to fight brainless zombies id be pissed and have people pay me to kill them -_-
Posted: 09/26/08 10:00

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Jollter says:

Well thats a pretty gey idea, 1 bite and you goto pay for a new f-ing account just to play? This guy doesent really think people would acshualy wanto do this does he? Imean seriously, hella people die in games hella fast but can still come back to life without making a new thing for it. thats basicly saying that If you die once in Halo you goto buy a new game to play again. Ill be laughing my ass off when noone buys his products, because 1. (this may seem a lil off-topic) worlds supposudly ending in 2012, and number 2. noone can afford this kinda shit. especialy after gas prices sudenly rose up. hella people got laid off after that scene
Posted: 11/14/08 23:45

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kenneth says:

i think kojima is getting old. starting to lose his mind.
Posted: 11/27/08 16:50

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nerserus says:

obviously he heard of how desperate the average gamer is to play a multiplayer zombie game, and is going to cash in on it, to think, i thought he was cool...Nope just another money grabbing jap'...We need someone in capcom who is a gamer like us, and ACTUALLY KNOWS what we like, not some retarded old guy who tried to rip us off!
Posted: 11/30/08 14:49

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anthony says:

no fence guys but the whole idea of a zombie outbreak is survival and panic like in that game where your in the mall except that you cant barricade yourself in with stuff u just fined lying around or say you destroy a table the legs could be used for hitting and the top could block a doorway if u had nails but u must still leav a small space so u can shoot out still of course
neways i know what would make the best zombie game and u should finde a way of contacting me id be glad to share for a job in asisting game developement
Posted: 06/11/09 04:48

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