“Reports are rolling in from across the Weird West of a plague of undead rising from the grave! Worse, a terrible sickness seems to follow in their wake,” says the announcement. Is any sickness worse than flesh-eating reanimated corpses literally rising from the grave? Isn’t a plague of undead also a kind of sickness? Many questions arise. The same announcement also mentions that 400,000 people have now played Weird West since launch. That’s not bad for a debut game from a new studio, although the game is not without pedigree given the studio was founded by Arkane founder Raphael Colantonio. Its popularity is happy news, too, if you believe Jeremy Peel’s Weird West review, which was filled with praise. I was particularly interested in its against-type real-time combat: I’ll play a Larian game the day they let me slow-mo dive while firing a shotgun. Weird West’s zombie outbreak will run for a “limited time”, though there’s no specific end date yet. Next on the roadmap is a content pack, then “Nimpossible mode,” and more events planned thereafter and all of it free.
