I came across this old idea from irrational games cancelled game project narrated by Ken Levine. It’s SWAT meets Zombie survivors.
“It started as a joke,” admits Wells. “Arrest five Draculas. Kill all Frankensteins in this level. Universal movie monsters versus SWAT.”
Source : Game Informer
The game is Swat 4 👮♂️meets Zombie 🧟 Survivor. it was conceived before left 4 dead but got cancelled as the studio focused on Bioshock.
looking at the trailer I feel that this is quite a good idea to take a relook. One thing it does different from Left 4 Dead is it can be quite slower paced and more tactical rather than fast action oriented.
Game Mechanics
It’s Sim Shooter meets all out monsters hordes. There is some RPG elements, base building, Resource Management, Survivour Rescue Missions.
You are trapped in a city during a zombie outbreak, and you have to grow your survivor base. The action is much slower than left 4 dead or other zombie games.
Other neat ideas was team members can get infected. you also have to either keep teammates infected alive to get treatment or put them down before they turn into zombies.
Looking at the various Zombie games and media I can say that the inspiration is from Dawn of the Dead.
links
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/38ehsd/division_9_2006_a_cancelled_tactical_zombie/
https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/more-cancelled-game-footage-division-9-from-irrational.40113
