Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green

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Description

Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green is a FPS prequel to the 2005 George A. Romero film. It is also the first game based on a George A. Romero property.

You are Jack, a hick farmer who wakes up to find a stranger on his property. The stranger is a zombie, the first of many he encounters in the game. Using whatever ranged and melee weapons he can find, Jack pummels the undead back to where they came from in the goriest fashion possible. He works his way through a number of typical Romero locales (50's style hospital, cornfields, abandoned police station, loading docks, etc) on his way to Mr. Kaufman's walled city. Once there, Mr. Kaufman asks Jack to help him clean up Fiddler's Green, a luxury condominium tower. This is where the game ends, and the movie picks things up.

Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green features an interesting limb specific damage system, meaning the player can literally blow the undead to pieces. It also features multiplayer over Xbox live, system link and Internet (PC). Up to eight players can enjoy deathmatch, team deathmatch, capture the flag and invasion modes with a twist - hungry zombies are coming after everyone!

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Alternate Titles

• "活死人之地" -- Chinese title (simplified)
• "Земля мертвых: Дорога к Фиддлерз Грин" -- Russian title

Part of the Following Groups

• 3D Engine: UnrealEngine2
• BPjS / BPjM indexed games
• Console Generation Exclusives: Xbox
• Inspiration: Horror movies
• Inspiration: Movies
• Theme: Zombies

User Reviews

This Road Needs Some Work.	Windows	Terrence Bosky (5463)
100% Zombie Killing FPS Goodness	Windows	festershinetop (9633)

Critic Reviews

Game industry News (GiN)	Xbox	2005		80
Game Watcher	Windows	Feb 22, 2006	5.2 out of 10	52
Darkstation	Xbox	Dec 05, 2005	5 out of 10	50
Absolute Games (AG.ru)	Windows	Nov 24, 2005	49 out of 100	49
Game Freaks 365	Xbox	2005	4 out of 10	40
Game Freaks 365	Windows	2005	4 out of 10	40
GameSpot	Windows	Feb 10, 2006	2.1 out of 10	21
Yahoo! Games	Xbox	Oct 27, 2005		20
GameSpot	Xbox	Dec 09, 2005	1.9 out of 10	19
Bordersdown	Xbox	Feb, 2006	1 out of 10	10

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Trivia

Copy protection

Unlike most commercial games currently available, Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green installs fully on the PC and is playable without a CD-ROM in the drive. The manual even suggests (as a troubleshooting measure) copying the two CD-ROMs to a folder on the desktop and installing from the setup.exe file there, bypassing the disks.

Development

Land of the Dead was originally developed as a singleplayer PC game called Day of the Zombie, which had a four month development cycle and was ready for October 2004 release. Day of the Zombie was shown to Universal Studios around the time the movie Land of the Dead was being filmed in Toronto, Canada (where Groove is headquartered) - this is how the license was secured. The game was ported to Xbox, multiplayer functionality was added and environments were added to tie the game to the movie.

Information also contributed by Terrence Bosky

Related Web Sites

• Groove Game's Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green Site (Features news about the game's release, a guide to the game, and hosts support information.)
• Land of the Dead Movie Site (Official web site for the movie on which this game is based.)
• Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green Official Site (The official site for the game features news, screenshots, and other publicity material.)