Rumor: Kuju zombie shooter 'Redwood Falls' shelved

by Jason Dobson { Dec 24th 2008 at 8:50AM }

Infected monkeys not withstanding, games about the undead are all the rage, which is why we're puzzled at UK-based Kuju Entertainment's apparent decision to shelve Redwood Falls. According to PlayStation Universe, the Battalion Wars dev has taken a shotgun to the upcoming PS3-exclusive zombie shooter, a representative from the company reportedly telling the site that "the game itself is on hold."

First demoed during the Japanese Play UK event in 2006, Redwood Fall's chief gimmick was the ability to rip opponents to shreds with gunfire, with bodies reacting in a believable manner to being torn apart. Honestly, we'd like to be more broken up over this news, had the game not completely fallen off of our radar like a dismembered limb. Even so, we're following up with Kuju, and will update if we find out more.

Tags: battalion-wars, kuju, kuju-entertainment, kujuentertainment, redwood-falls, redwoodfalls, rumor, zombies

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

darc requiem @ Dec 24th 2008 9:11AM

Well every time a small develop makes a PS3 exclusive them to end up out of business. Factor 5 and Free Radical's situation may have influenced Kuju.

B3astofthe3ast @ Dec 24th 2008 9:15AM

The question is, is it the game developers fault for making crappy games, or the PS3s fault for not brining in the sales of said games?

Megadanxzero @ Dec 24th 2008 9:24AM

Well... Free Radical and Factor 5 never had any trouble with sales until they made a PS3 exclusive each...

Sony are killing the UK games industry lolololololol!

Haggard @ Dec 24th 2008 9:37AM

We still have Rockstar, Lionhead, Media Molecule and Codemasters and a couple of first-party Sony studios.

But yeah, everyone else here just pumps out shovelware and movie-tie in games.

The_Doctor @ Dec 24th 2008 9:59AM

Naughty Dog says hi...

Wiinterfang @ Dec 24th 2008 10:07AM

Naughty Dog isn't small.

Flame @ Dec 24th 2008 10:09AM

Forgot to add that their games were shitty. If Haze was made for 360 it would be no different.

PSN: Aggie_CEO @ Dec 24th 2008 9:10AM

bah.....

syrik zero @ Dec 24th 2008 9:19AM

Sounds amazing! I would have at least rented it.

Matt @ Dec 24th 2008 12:53PM

Pity. I remember the tech demo. It looked much more promising as far as dismemberment goes than Deep Space with its pre-programmed sever points. Hope someone else picks it up.

labaronx @ Dec 24th 2008 6:41PM

Or maybe upon release this game would be considered a poor mans Left 4 Dead!!! Which is what it sounds like. I dont get why everyone is blaming sony for companies closing. Factor 5 was paid by sony to create Lair. But when EA makes an attempt to buy one of these smaller companies everyone whines well this is what happens.

nightmare452 @ Dec 24th 2008 10:08AM

Yeah, that what happens when a developer if making a game that seems unique, then a similar games hits the market as you are still creating yours, and you play the one already out *cough* Left4Dead *cough*, and when you go back to yours, you can tell everything sucks.

Competition and comparisons would have been against L4D anyway, so unless you can match how fun and well done it is, no need to make a game that would probably drop on review when compared to a previous game. I like this developers as they did Battalion Wars, but never heard of this one before, so it musn't be very good.

Negativecool @ Dec 24th 2008 10:12AM

Whoa, I was just thinking about what happened to this one the other day...

Although, I remember watching the tech demo in '06 and feeling kind of uneasy about watching it. I remember being a little uncomfortable with the level of realism and figured that if/when the game came out, the media would have a FIELD day with it.

I can't say I'm that broken up about it being shelved.