ZombiU Servers Reanimate After Being Down for Several Months

If this game was a success and a sequel was made it could have been great. I liked this up to a point, felt a little rushed.

@Robotsvsgodzilla I could never really get into it. Honestly, I prefer survival horror games that are more action oriented. I don't think it's any fun to have to scavenge every single trash can and cupboard you come across and to make every single shot count; it feels too tedious.

If I paid full price for it I wouldn't have been as forgiving. The cricket bat was the most tedious thing about this game, they really should have added more melee weapons for a bit of variety.

ZombieU was one of the only horror games i had to quit because my nerves couldnt take it anymore. Not because it is so scary but because it was so incredibly immersive.
The only other "recent" horror game that achieved something like that was the first dead space, which quickly evolved into an arcady shooter.

@MitchVogel @Robotsvsgodzilla Its strange to hear that, as these are some points that basically define the survival horror genre: Being helpless, under prepared and under supplied, having to cope with inventory management and "too good to use" resources.

Its really strange to hear that people are turned off by a textbook "slow" approach, while people also complained about games like Resident Evil 5/6 for being completely action oriented.

And as for the cricket bat. Think of it like Half Lifes crowbar, it was the games "maskot" and a shawn of the dead reference at the same time. It wasnt meant to be a great weapon, it was meant to be functional and iconic.

@MitchVogel then you don't really prefer a survival horror game. That's the point, make every bullet count.
I really like this game as something I play for a couple hours once or 2x a month. I'm over 100 hours since I got it.

@Donutman Fair point, but what do we categorize the newer Resident Evil games as then? Maybe just horror?

That's nice to hear. Don't think I'll pick up the PC port or a Wii U, but I do know this game has some clever ideas.

Great game! Great Gamepad use! Awesome atmosphere brrrr

Maybe getting ready for zombi 2 on NX

@Einherjar I enjoyed using the bat but after hours of using it to conserve ammo or when I had none it became boring to use, wouldn't it have been cool if you could have upgraded it, maybe find some nails in a tool box and hammer them into the bat so it is more powerful. I really enjoyed the slower pace and old school survival horror feel of this game.

Very good survival horror game and the gamepad usage is brilliant but do wish ubisoft would update the extra melee weapons that was added too the ps4/xbox1 version or make them DLC would give it a new lease of life.

I found ZombiU to be one of the best survival games in a long time. The theme of survivors trying to continue surviving was explored to great depths, the combat felt desparate and harsh due to zombies being rather relentless, and the prerequisite of needing to preserve as much stuff as possible amplified the desire to stay away from zombies even further. It's an unbelievable shame that this wasn't more successful.

@MitchVogel I think Resident Evil by now is more of an action horror game. The survival aspects have been reduced to only the environment (traps and enemies), while ammo and recovery items are common enough to allow a good margin of wastefulness. The horror itself stems more from the imagery than the actual atmosphere, sadly.

I wonder how many digital sales Ubi got from PS4 and XB1 for Zombi. Have we heard anything since release? I always assumed it would tank on the twins but would be interesting to hear some figures. I doubt Ubi will want to give any info unless it sold well though.

I really don't need the graffiti feature to make myself play this game, but I really love having it available. It is so fun gambling my survival on hints that could either be trolls or give genuinely helpful advice. Seriously good fun, and ZombiU is one of the few survival horror games I have genuinely enjoyed in a long time. It's a very welcome addition to my Wii U library.

@MitchVogel resident evil 1-4 survival horror. 4 an on are action games. 4 does both well but it is not a true resident evil game imo. It is a great game. A little too long and drawn out some.
Left for dead on hard mode is a great survival horror action game. You can not yet get hit, shot team mates, there are limited supplies and you need to search for them. And it's 4 person co op so you really have to work together to survive. That's prob my fav game in this genre. I still play both l4d today.

i absolutely loved this game and it terrified me every time i played. i got the best ending, but never completed it on the most difficult setting. the one-death survival mode is an incredible feature to the game. no other game i've played puts it all on the line like that and truly gives you a sense of danger. i mean, the fact that you might be 15 hours into the game, putting in a lot of thought to how your supplies are spent, searching carefully every nook and cranny, and yet, at any moment, almost any zombie could take you down...

I may go back and try to beat it on survival... but im really not looking forward to the gladiator arena area... that was super, super difficult.

This is still one of the best games on the Wii U that actually uses the gamepad creatively. Loved it. Survival horror like it should be!

personally I loved this game so much although I suck at first person games and never did get very far. It's so scary, it's great. My only complaint was that it was a bit too dark consistently. I'm fine with dark parts, they add to the realism of the game's situation, but damn it was always just so dark that I could barely see what was happening at times. If I can play "king of the Zombies" online, I'd be one happy camper.

Cool. I've been meaning to play it but now will be a great time to do that while this feature is available.

This game is in my top 10 favorites of all time. The atmosphere and inventory system were brilliant. Not just because the inventory was managed on the gamepad, but the fact that you could only have 6 items readily available at any given time. If you get in an unsuspected frantic fight with 3 or more zombies, you might use a flare and grenade immediately, then get hit a few times and use your only medpack, and before you know it you have nothing but a pistol on hand and you've got to quickly go through your backpack to replenish the 6 slots - all while fighting zombies. (Sorry for the run- on sentence)

I was unaware of the servers going down but I'm happy they're back. However, it will take more than this to get me playing ZombiU again...

ZombiU is one of my favorite WiiU games and that nursery left me traumatized especially playing the radio thats on the table hearing the final recorded moments of the nursery staff and children...i truly wish we had a sequel on the WiiU where the team had an opporunity to expand on their ideas!!! I wish them luck on their next game regardless of console

@MitchVogel
The video game version of Van Helsing is a good comparison for RE 5 and 6. It's horror just not survival horror. Practically unlimited ammunition.

Great to hear they are back online, I've been wanting to receive my Uplay reward for quite a while now.

Ubishafted have claimed that Zombi U was not FINANCIALLY successful. I find this very hard to believe.

To date, sales are around 840,000. Even at £40 a copy, that equates to £33.6 million. Take off publishing costs, and what they would have had to pay Nintendo, and you are probably left with around £28 million.

Now, the game was created in just under 6 months, as they got their dev kits just over 6 months before release. I do not believe the production cost of the game came any where near this amount. They even started to make a sequel, then vanned it after a montb or so. You simply do not even think of making a sequel to a game that was APPARENTLY a failure.

Truth be told, Ubishafted made a nice little profit out of the game. To be honest, why not, apart from a few graphical glitches, the game is brilliant, and makes fantastic use of the Game Pad. The off-line multiplayer is also awesome.

@MitchVogel Basically, the "survival horror" genre was defined with "Alone in the Dark" (the first one, a french game by the way). The first Resident Evil were already a more action-oriented take on AitD, the 200x sequels simply accentuate this trend even more.
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/aitd/aitd.htm

@akaDv8R it's actually up to 880,000 now. And that's not counting digital sales.

Why are the inferior versions of the game more popular?

I love this game. I am new to the Wii U and I just started playing Zombie U. It's incredibly immersive and it can be genuinely scary.. well, more of a stressful anxiety as you try to avoid permadeath. Sure, it has some flaws - you seem to cross through identical underground bits to reach the main areas themselves, the cricket bat is the only melee weapon (sure a golf club, baseball bat and knives could have been added) and it can look a bit samey.. but the sense of fear is brilliant and it's fantastic to run around London rather than yet another New York or Los Angeles based game. I whole heartedly recommend Zombi U.. it cost me £8.. eight pounds!!!! and it's keeping me enthralled.

Scary game, haven´t played through yet.

I just purchased it and started playing it (on twitch). I really like this one, so I will be playing it on my own because it feels different from other zombie games I've played.

@akaDv8R trouble is even if those figures are accurate (VG chartz?) It didn't sell at £40 a pop...its been less than a tenner for years now (it was when I bought my Wii u Christmas 2013) so that 840k more likely only turned in £8-16million, which is pretty low

I really liked this game, but I think RE revelations is the best horror, best game on Wii u