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A zombie shooter instead of Bioshock: We almost never got to know Rapture

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Can you imagine a world without Bioshock? Developer Irrational Games had a completely different iron in the fire back then

In the mid-2000s, Bioshock developer Irrational Games had another project alongside the first installment of the later famous shooter series. So there could have been a world without Bioshock 

But according to series creator Ken Levine, that wouldn’t have been such a bad alternative. He even calls the canceled zombie shooter in an X-Post: “Without a doubt the best game we could never make.”

A zombie spinoff to SWAT 4

Between the cult games System Shock 2 and Bioshock, Irrational Games had another successful shooter: SWAT 4 and that was supposed to get a spinoff, but instead of chasing criminals with a group of lawmen, zombies were the new threat in the game called Division 9

What kind of game would Division 9 have been? The basic concept of a rather slow tactical shooter in the style of SWAT 4 was to be transferred to the setting of a zombie apocalypse.

As the leader of a special unit, you would have put together a team of characters with individual skills. The missions involved rescuing civilians, clearing buildings of zombies and gradually uncovering the background to the supernatural threat.

A customized version of SWAT 4 was used for the following gameplay:

Ken Levine was as convinced of the idea then as he is now. The game could perhaps have developed into a competitor for Left4Dead, which was released in 2008. What do you think of the concept behind Division 9? Would a zombie shooter in the style of SWAT 4 be something for you? Would you give up Bioshock for it? Let us know in the comments:

Thomas
Thomas
Age: 31 Origin: Sweden Hobbies: gaming, football, skiing Profession: Online editor, entertainer

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