This caused the game to miss its first ship date in 2012, and it still isn't available. He has since scaled Mount Everest, delaying his work with Prague-based Bohemia Interactive in creating the new standalone release. The mod's developer, Dean 'Rocket' Hall, created it as a trainer for soldiers while in the New Zealand Army. You start out with nothing, get one life only, must mind what you eat, avoid deathly diseases-and evade those pesky zombies. In fact, it just won a Best Hybrid MMO award from Pax East 2013. Some consider the mod alone the best zombie game ever, and among the scariest games of all time. The free DayZ offshoot got 600,000 players in just a few months, giving ArmA II new life. DayZ is not just a single-player shoot-'em-up, but also a full-blown massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), and a hybrid game where players can work cooperatively. The zombies are not the slow-moving undead type of The Walking Dead or Night of the Living Dead but the more violent, virus-turned kind, à la 28 Days Later or World War Z.ĭayZ got its start as a mod for another tactical shooter game, 2009's ArmA II (and its Operation Arrowhead expansion) for Windows, a combo that costs $24.99 on Steam. In this game (pronounced Day-Zee), you are stuck in Chernarus, a fictional, post-Soviet, post-apocalyptic Russia simply trying to survive.

There's just one small problem: we don't know when this new game will premiere. Soon will come the day when PC gamers experience a great new zombie apocalypse, released on Valve's Steam platform.

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