The Father Of Zombies Wants To Bring A Zombie Game To Life

According to an interview read over at Destructoid with George A. Romero, the man, the myth, the legend – he has interest in making a zombie video game. Yes you read that right – everyone’s favorite master of the undead wants to take a shot at a video game!

“I’d like to do a game. I’d like to work with a gamer on it,” Romero said even though he isn’t one to play video games “But everyone who has ever approached me, it’s always been … sell us your name and go home. I don’t particularly want to do that.”

When Romero was working on the holy screenplay that has been lost to time for the Resident Evil movie that was never made he watched while his assistant played a lot of Resident Evil and “had a lot of great ideas” for a game. Or at least ideas he thought would be great. “I’m not a gamer, so I don’t know,” he admitted. “What excites a gamer? I don’t know. I think I could come up with a good story, and good situations, places to hide shit. We’ll see what happens.”

I’d love to see a real game maker take up Romero on this idea. I hear there is a new studio entitled “Respawn” looking for a franchise to start. A first person shooter based on a universe Romero built? It would put any other first person shooters with zombies in them to shame instantly. Sadly they are just as needy on their IP’s as Romero would be so that is just not a mix that would work out. Still SOMEONE should take him up on the idea before it’s too late.