Hideo Kojima Describes Zombie MMO Idea

Hideo Kojima has been working hard on the next installment to the Metal Gear series, but that hasn't stopped the man from pondering his next project.

It was recently reported that the acclaimed Japanese game designer had outlined an idea for a massively multilayer, online zombie game. However, if players are to take the man's idea seriously, the cost to play the game could be a hundred times that of World of Warcraft, literally.

"The zombie idea I have is a bit different. Imagine a large town where half the inhabitants are zombies. Users would subscribe, get inside the town and get bitten. At that stage they become undead and can't control their character - all they can do is modify the camera angles... They'd see their character attacking humans and have to pay just to watch! The only way they could end it is by opening another account, hunting themselves down and killing themselves. Of course, the problem is that your second character can get bitten as well," said Kojima.
The concept of using an alternate character to save a primary one could prove quite ingenious, but at what price? Imagine having to pay an extra 10 dollars for every character that is bitten by the undead. Surely, gamers can expect to have free alternates available to them at a reasonable monthly charge, but it will be interesting to see how this pans out if and when Kojima decides to further develop this idea.

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