ZombiU, Ubisoft’s Wii U Survival Game, Takes A Cue From Metroid Prime

By Ishaan Sahdev June 5, 2012

This morning, Ubisoft showed playable footage of ZombiU, their upcoming survival horror game for the Wii U, which puts you in the boots of a different survivor each time your current character dies. Something that caught our eye about the gameplay trailer was that ZombiU has a Metroid Prime-like scanning feature:

The scanning feature can be used to check boxes and so on. ZombiU is Wii U launch window title.

Ishaan Sahdev

Ishaan specializes in game design/sales analysis. He's the former managing editor of Siliconera and wrote the book "The Legend of Zelda - A Complete Development History". He also used to moonlight as a professional manga editor. These days, his day job has nothing to do with games, but the two inform each other nonetheless.