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Tactical boardgame Zombies!!! lives again for Windows, iOS and Android

Gets visual makeover and multiplayer mode

Tactical boardgame Zombies!!! lives again for Windows, iOS and Android
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US developer Babaroga scored a decent hit - at least in terms of a Pocket Gamer Silver award - when it released Zombies!!! as a launch title for Windows Phone 7 in early 2011.

Based on the boardgame from Twilight Creations, it's a tile-based turn-based experience that has you rolling virtual dice for combat and movement, as well as using virtual cards to deploy objects such as cars, shotguns, ammo and health.

Will Wilson described the gameplay as "cross between Carcassonne and Space Hulk - with the five in-game characters fighting it out to be the first person to make it onto the rescue helicopter and safety.

Gimme more

Yet, given Windows Phone 7's small audience, it was a surprise Zombies!!! didn't find a wider release.

That's been sorted now, with Babaroga announcing a fully graphically revised version of the game will be released for Windows 8, with iOS and Android versions inbound too.

There will also be an asynchronous multiplayer mode - something long demanded by fans.

Zombies!!! is due to be released before the end of 2012.

You can see the trailer and a longer making of video below.

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