Work is almost done on Mika Mobile’s Zombieville 2. Though they aren’t hitting their target release of September 22, they are now projecting mid-October for submitting to Apple. The iTunes approval process can take a week or longer.
Though the developers have remained mostly silent on the new game, only dropping tidbits of information on Twitter throughout the summer, they broke that silence today with a long blog post. In the post they covered some things we already knew such as destructible items will provide ammo now, characters can be assigned skills, the game will be 2.5D a la Battlehart (but with a virtual joystick.)
They also covered some new features to expect. Instead of killing until you’re killed, you’ll be on a timer with a helicopter evacuating you when time runs out. Through “skillful play” you can extend the timer. Skillful play may include building up combos through back-to-back zombie kills.
Weapons are different this time, too. Instead of picking up new weapons until you get the biggest and then losing it when you die, weapons will be unlocked over time and remain available. You can pick three weapons to bring into a mission and can fire them at any time. Buttons for all three will always be on the screen so there is no time wasted switching between weapons.
Finally, there will be 15 characters to choose from and instead of each having different skills you will get to choose 3 skills from a pool and apply them to any of the characters.
That’s all the new information we have now. There was talk of a video trailer coming out before launch so we’ll get a look at the game in action hopefully soon.
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Zombieville USA 2 Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHgnKlHs2x8