IDEA - Lies Of The Epidemic

[Danny-Vain]

"Lies Of The Epidemic" is an idea i came up for a videogame.

 

its a zombie rpg.

 

basicly its mix between GTA, Fallout 3, Dead Rising, 28 Days later and many others...

 

Setting:

Set on a group of islands (influenced of the canary islands) each island has its diferent life and enviroment, the story is about an outbreak of a virus in a underground facility on the main island.

 

The game starts a few days after the outbreak of an infection and first few missions will be basicly escaping the danger zones and trying to find a safe zone, as the days go by the places seem to be more quieter and more calmed down, BUT thats becuase theres less alive people, soo in reality its more dangerous.

 

Gameplay:

They are multiple characters to choose from, and each have a diferent story to go through, example if you choose the soldier you will patrolling with a convoy around the islands searching for survivors and killing the infected BUT if you do not follow orders or you decide to run away from the military the game does not end there, instead you will be left alone and your characters category will change from a soldier to the Lone Wonderer, your atributes will stay the same as you have trained with the military except you do not hold or have permision to use military equipment unless stolen. This is the same with the rest characters.

As you process through out the game youll see that the cities, towns, roads and villages will be getting gritier, more wild life will be growin more and more places will seem un-habitable etc...

Vehicles: These islands are preety big and walking from one point to the other is a dangerous situation, so theres a variety of cars. as time goes by more and more vehicles will seem to be braking down or loosing gas/petrol. also other colonies and mercenaries will have modified vehicles similar seen in films like Mad Max.

Cars/Bikes:

They will be around 150 to 200 diferent vehicles.

Boats:

Boats will be the way to travel to each island.

Helicopters and Planes:

The hardest to find and most dificult to get is the airplane, protected by the military, helicopters can be seen fying around and can be shot down but you will be added to the military wanted list.

 

 

The Characters:

 

Lone Wonderer:

The most basic character but also the character with most freedom, this character starts off with no one by his side, all to himself, this character has no orders to go through but to stay alive youll have to to side-missions from factions or bases. This character can evolve into new characters, but also if you fail in other characters you come back to the Lone Wonderer.

 

Family Man/Woman:

This character starts of as protecting your family from the infected you travel around in a minivan searching for places secure enough to live.

But if you do not help your family or protect them your family will cast you out and you will be a Lone Wonderer.

You can also join other characters and become them but you will loose your family in the process also you and your family can join colonies to survive but this has its downsides. The downsides of this character is that you do not have many abilites and expirience with firearms and survival ways.

 

The Soldier:

You start of with them military training at base camp, learning ways to kill the infected and protect the uninfected. As you gain XP and go up in levels you will be given orders to go with convoys for searach and destroy missions, rescue missions etc...

 

The Colony:

This character will only be avalaible later in game.

to become a colony leader you have to have saved many survivors and kept them in small convoy you can then decide to start a colony, where you can choose an area and try and protect, find an old building to create a fortress. but the downside is youll run out of ammo, suplies and food faster as you gain more survivors and you are more likely to be attacked from the infected.

 

The Mercenary:

Similar to the colony except your group doesnt care about lifes and families, they loot, steal and kill for anything they want. the downside is the military are constantly attacking them.

 

The Islands:

 

The Reef:

based on the island Tenerife, it has many towns and villages, 2 cities and a big national park with a volcano. This is the biggest island in the game and also the most dangerous.

This is where the outbreak began

 

The most dangerous area is the main city La Cruz (based on Santa Cruz de Tenerife) in the north-east of the island, the underground facility was built near here during the Franco regime in 1956 for experimental purposes, but then shut down after Franco's death, re-opened in 2009 by a corporation called Estria Corp. for testing alternative power use, but in 2010 things went wrong as Experiment 23/5 was a mix of chemicals that induced a powerful cannibal state in humans, the reasons why this was created is unknown (later on in-game you found why)

La Cruz is filled with infected people, survivors are known not to come back alive.

In the south of the island is the tourism area, many hotels and beaches, this area was badly affected by the wave of infected.

 

Silvion:

based on the island of La Gomera, this is the closest island to Tenerife and was badly damaged by the infection but due to small population most of the infetced died of.

 

Meridian Island:

Is the smallest island there, there is many survivors on this island and it is considered a safe haven for others on other island but there is low resourcers.

 

Aridane Island:

based on the island of La Palma, this island was bombed by the military at the beginning of the infection, reasons still unknown, but rumors say there is an abandoned container ship with resources at the north of the island.

 

El Rondo:

based on the island of Gran Canaria, this island is in similar situation as The Reef. also the second biggest island.

 

The rest of the island will be added as DLC.

 

i havent finished soo theres a lot missing, but please comment and give ideas. Thanks

[Rebel]

I think this might be better suited for the Writing section if you are planning to make a story out of this. If you just wanted to throw out your idea about a game then even though this is the gaming area chat. This isn't the place for it either since here we talk about games that have actually been made/in development.

[Danny-Vain]

well its basicly a massive idea of a videogame. how do i move it there? or shall i just copy and paste and continue there?