Zombicide night of the living dead is coming! CMON has just filed the Kickstarter of the new version of Zombicide that has already announced a new campaign! In reality it is not an unexpected novelty, in fact, already from the end of 2018 it was known of the acquisition from CMON of the rights of the iconic film of George A. Romero.
Compared to Zombicide however, this will be a very different campaign: there will be no streach goals to be unblocked, as opposed to what happened instead for all the other versions of Zombicide and many other campaigns to which CMON has accustomed us. This is also because the game will be a detailed re-proposal of the film with characters, weapons and settings taken faithfully.
George A. Romero’s film
Why this version of Zombicide? It is clearly a tribute to the father of the genre. In fact, in 1968, George Romero directed, wrote, photographed, edited and set the film “Night of the living dead”, giving rise to the survival genre which was then inspired by artists such as Michael Jackson for his “Thriller”, or more recently the successful TV series “The Walking Dead”.
Zombicide itself was born as a survival genre in a setting typical of that of Romero’s film, clearly drawing inspiration from it.
From Wikipedia: “The film was completed on a US$114,000 budget and shot outside Pittsburgh, where it had its theatrical premiere on October 1, 1968. The film grossed US$12 million domestically and US$18 million internationally, earning more than 250 times its budget. Night of the Living Dead has been regarded as a cult classic by film scholars and critics, despite being heavily criticized upon its release for its explicit gore. It eventually garnered critical acclaim and was selected in 1999 by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry as a film deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.”
Zombicide Night of the living dead: release dates
At the moment there are no dates. As we were saying, CMON concluded just a few days ago the lucky campaign (reached more than $ 3,400,000) of Zombicide second edition. The only invitation from the manufacturer is to follow their social channels Facebook and Twitter for new updates.
