The boys at Conduit studioHigh Voltage have seen what Left 4 Dead did for first-person zombie co-op, and they like it. So much so, in fact, that they’ve decided to simply copy Valve’s immensely popular shooter and put it on the Wii. It has the undead, it has guns, it has four-player co-op. Hey, at least this game also throws in Werewolves and Vampires, the latter of which seem to be replacing L4D “infected” horde.
HV’s game will be called The Grinder and features split screen as well as online multiplayer. Very much like House of the Dead: Overkill, the game will be influenced by the Grindhouse genre of movies and tells the tale of four heroes who must survive in a world populated by undead monstrosities.
“We’ve been playing a lot of Left 4 Dead and there really isn’t that kind of frantic co-operative experience on the Wii right now,” says High Voltage’s Eric Nofsinger. “There’s certainly nothing that takes advantage of the Wii hardware the way we are able to with our engine.”
Those Wii fans who felt left out by the lack of L4D on their preferred system will surely be happy to know that some co-op zombie love is coming their way. The Grinder is due out in 2010.
