We lauded the tense moment to moment survival of ZombiU play in our review, but some have criticized the game's lack of online co-op. Developer Ubisoft Montpellier says the idea was considered but scrapped fairly early into development.

Producer Guillaume Brunier said "we thought we could not deliver it on time," citing the crunch to make Wii U launch in an interview with Nintendo World Report. "How to bring a cooperative experience and still keep fear and tension is a question we would love to address though."

Other topics include potential DLC or even the notion that ZombiU has more games to come - Brunier didn't reveal much but did say that the Ubisoft Montpellier servers have the death logs of 300,000 survivors to draw from. "Who knows what we could do with them," he teased. Our suggestion? Stop scrapbooking our deaths, you monsters.ZombiU co-op shelved early on, over 300,000 survivor deaths logged originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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