Zombie Panic! Source
Zombie Panic! Source is a multiplayer Half-Life 2 First-person Shooter modification that pays homage to the popular Zombie genre of film and games. It is the sequel to the Half-Life modification Zombie Panic!, both of which are available to download for free.
Gameplay
The game features two modes of gameplay, "Zombie Panic! Survival". In this gameplay mode, the zombies start with 20 lives which are slowly depleted as zombies are killed and subsequently come back. In this mode, the round can only be won if one side completely destroys the other.
The other Mode is "Zombie Panic! Objective", in which humans have to complete objectives or survive a non-stop zombie onslaught for a set amount of time. In this mode, the zombie team has an infinite number of lives and the players can always come back if they are killed.
Weapons are picked up by pressing the "use" button, differing from most FPS games in the sense that one cannot simply walk over and item or weapon to pick it up. Each weapon or ammunition picked up has its own weight, so if a character is carrying too many weapons or too much ammunition, they will be significantly slower than their peers.
Scattered throughout the levels are various forms of furniture, decor, and misc. items that can be used to block zombies and/or barricade a room or location of choice.
Humans
Humans start with a handgun and a melee weapon. Survivors have access to a wide variety of guns and melee weapons alike to aid them in in fighting off zombie team.
Zombies
Zombies are the team opposing the humans. They start in small numbers (one to three, depending on the overall number of players), with the goal of thwarting the humans' attempts at survival or completion of objectives. Zombies also have the ability to use Zombie Vision, which brightens any light source in the room, and can make survivors easier to spot. With Zombie Vision, survivors that are active or that have been still for too long appear to glow red.
Carrier
The Carrier is a zombie with a different, bare and pale skin, more health, and the chance to infect humans. Each time the Carrier hits a human, the human has a chance to be infected. If a human is infected, they will eventually turn into a zombie. Once infected, the survivor becomes vulnerable to friendly fire, and fellow survivors can kill him before he turns. Infected humans appear to glow green on Zombie Vision.
History
Zombie Panic! Source began development in early 2005, and released their first public beta on December 28, 2007[1][2][3].
In 2006 [4] Zombie Panic! Source was picked as one of ModDB's top 100 unreleased mods of the year.
In 2007[5], Zombie Panic! Source won ModDB's player's choice unreleased mod of the year.
On February 9th, 2008[6], Zombie Panic! Source was discussed in the first ModDB podcast.
The mod was also featured in the March 2008 issue of PC Gamer, UK Edition[7].
On October 8th, 2008, it was one of the first five "mods" to be released on Steam by Valve under their new commitment to easily accessible quality user-created modifications in the Steam Store.
See also
References
- ^ Zombie Panic: Source v1.0 Full Client Release, Half-Life 2 Downloads, Half-Life 2 -Releases
- ^ Source: Zombie Panic Source Brings Zombies, Panic to Source Kotaku article briefly reviewing Zombie Panic! Source
- ^ Blue's News: News Comments Blue's News article about the release of Zombie Panic! Source
- ^ [1] ModDB 2006 Mod of the Year top 100 page
- ^ [2] ModDB 2007 Mod of the Year Awards
- ^ [3] Mod DB Podcast Debut!
- ^ PC Gamer #185, UK Edition, p 94. March 2008