Development
Hip Interactive announced on December 15, 2004 that they had made an agreement with Living Dead Productions to produce a series of games based on Romero's films, with City of the Dead being the first to be developed and released. The company also expected to develop games based directly on the movies Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead.
Before the cancellation, it was announced that Tom Savini, make-up artist and regular actor in the Dead Series, would be providing the voice and likeness of a character in the game. The character would have been William "Red" McLean, a supporting character that later becomes playable himself.
Actual gameplay was shown at E3 2005 (but was not playable by those attending). Those that saw the presentation have commented that City of the Dead contained high levels of violence, blood and gore, to the point of excess.
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