ZombieU, the launch Nintendo Wii U game, has been a bit inspired by Dark Souls, especially the online elements.

Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls have a unique multiplayer system where anyone can join the game and help or destroy the invaded player. It was somewhat unprecedented and never been done before.

“Dark Souls, Demon’s Souls inspired our online features and yes, it inspired us more in terms of making the challenge demanding. Difficult but fair. And at the end when you achieve the thing you say, ‘Whew!’” associate producer Nicolas Robin told EL33TOnline.

“This feeling in videogames that we used to have when we were young. In modern video games we have cool emotions also but we kind of miss sometimes the emotion of, ‘Okay, I tried many times, it was difficult, but I have a really good memory of that moment that I will tell to the other ones and share with the other ones’, and that’s really what we wanted to communicate with the game.

“We had this type of conversation around Dark Souls and Demon’s Souls with [lead content designer] Mounir [Radi]. And yes, basically that’s more where Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls inspired us is to make a fair challenge but a difficult one at the end of which the player will say, ‘Okay, you see the gas station, I shot the flare…’ We had a lot of conversations with the playtesters and lots of very memorable moments.”

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Ammo is not plentiful and you have to carefully preserve them. The Wii U gamepad is also used here in innovative ways to enrich the experience.

“The market is going towards more action games. Call Of Duty is driving the market and everyone is going to Call Of Duty’s market. When we had to work with Nintendo we had two screens to make a new experience,” Ubisoft’s Jean-Phillipe Caro said to ONM.

“When we were making Killer Freaks we discovered that it was not a good place for players to feel the potential of the console and the dual screens because the player needs to look at one screen and go to another screen and this move is not natural.””

“That’s why we decided to go to a slow pace. We thought about this for a long time and the GamePad became of use in the management part. When I’m playing an action game, I can aim and shoot at the TV.

“But each time I have to look for something on my mini-map, to watch on my scanner or to look around me, think, to react and make a plan or make a strategy, I use my GamePad. That’s when we had the idea to make the GamePad our survival kit.”

“If you play like in Call Of Duty, you will die. You will have to learn how to use the GamePad as your survival kit. If you listen carefully to your GamePad, you will succeed because the game is hard.”

What about the zombie mode in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 then? Oh wait… it’s all different, am I right? But this is good to hear, glad they’re making something that is not dumbed down for the market.

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Thanks, VG247.

About the game:

ZombiU showcases the innovative features of the Nintendo Wii UTM Controller and creates new game experiences not possible on other consoles. The Nintendo Wii U Controller serves as the player’s ultimate survival kit, called the “Bug Out Bag.” The Bug Out Bag is a backpack containing all the maps, tools, weapons and supplies that players can scavenge from the limited resources available in the devastated cityscape. ZombiU also will use the Nintendo Wii U Controller’s touch screen, gyroscope and camera to create a tactile connection between gamers and the in-game world.

ZombiU is due for the WiiU. It is published by Ubisoft.

Check out ESCAPE FROM BUCKINGHAM, the latest video from ZombiU. Use the Wii U Gamepad as a sniper scope, blacklight scanner, inventory management system and more!

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Ubisoft is going all out with its Wii U launch title ZombieU, and as the name suggests, you will be a survivor in a grim world infested with zombies with hardly any ammunition to dispose of them.

The developers haven’t hidden the weapons, ammunition and clues in plain sight, however, and you can’t even see them on the Wii U screen, so here’s where the Wii U controller comes in with its unique tablet like system.

The purple hue of the controller screen allows you to find messages, ammunition cache and a lot of other things to make survival easy. You can also leave messages to other players giving them hints – sort of like the Souls games, but there’s not a lot of in-depth explanation here.

If you die in the game, the consequences are painful making it tough to survive. You can go to the previous location of where you corpse died – sort of like the Diablo games – and get back some of the items you had but it’s going to be tough.

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Thanks, IGN.

For the second time in history, a great plague has wrapped in London fog of death. The bells of Big Ben playing a dead for hundreds of thousands of citizens unprepared to die or are infected with an evil worse than death itself … You’re still alive, for now. But for how long can you survive …

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