Ever wondered if you could play Resident Evil for real? The geniuses behind I.R.L Shooter have, which is why they’ve developed a real life gaming experience in which players can slay zombies in an abandoned Melbourne warehouse. And all without the fear of getting your face eaten off!
Dubbed Patient 0, the game involves immersive live action environments, storylines and features gaming standards like puzzle solving, zombie mobs and information collecting. Players will be armed with laser tag-style rifles which log in-game statistics including hits, shots fired and accuracy, while assorted Neighbours rejects actors will provide the target practice…
Obviously this is one of the best ideas ever but (provided they had infinite budget) we can think of at least five ways this could be even more awesome.
VEHICLES
Imagine a quadbike with a gatling gun attached to it. Drool…
PAINT BALL
Fact: Seeing your shot hit the target would be 1000 times more satisfying. Sure, it’d be messy, workplace health and safety would be an issue and you’d need ridiculous salaries to convince people to put on zombie make-up every morning, limp around a warehouse and cop shots to the torso from alpha dog douche bags on corporate team building activities, but just think about how amazing that would be. We want to be alpha dog douche bags on corporate team building activities! Players could visually discern who shot what, how much ammo they have left and implement other paint-themed weapons like grenades, knives and flame throwers.
BOSS BATTLES
Brendan Fevola or similar plays a crazed zombie king who literally hurts you if you get too close to them, has superior strength and boasts ten times the health points of his brethren. After you kill him you get to pose over the body for a roller-coaster style money shot.
FANTASY THEMED SPINOFF
Zombies are sooooooo 2007. Why not use some of that Game Of Thrones momentum and create a fantasy fiction spinoff with crossbows instead of guns and orcs instead of zombies? Or you could go the sci-fi route and use plasma rifles, spaceships and aliens (the laser guns would make even more sense in this case). Other spinoffs? Modern warfare, gang battles or a vintage kill Hitler quest.
COMPELLING MOTIVATION
Player nominate a friend or family member to be tethered on a pole hanging above a giant vat of slime. Failure to complete the game results in the loved one getting dunked in green Nickelodeon slime and the player having to hear about how much of a wuss they are.
LOVE INTERESTS
An actor plays an NPC (non-playable character) like a too-attractive scientist, who, over time develops romantic feelings for their savior. This mightn’t work for icky reasons.
Patient 0 kicks off in Melbourne October 31st, with plans to tour nationally.
