Ken Levine on his cancelled zombie project: "The best game we never got to finish"

Players were set to protect a nation from a threat that doesn't exist.
Text: Marcus Persson
Published 2023-11-15

It has recently been revealed that Ken Levine, the creative force behind System Shock and BioShock, was at one point working on developing a zombie game called Division 9. The project is said to have come in the wake of SWAT 4 and the horror-focused expansion the team was working on for the game, something that Levine now calls the best game they never got the chance to complete.

On a now archived section of the Irrational Games blog, you can read about the game's backstory, which loosely describes the player as part of a team whose job it is to protect the nation against a threat that officially does not exist. Kind of like The X-Files, but with guns. You can't help but be disappointed over the fact that the game was cancelled.

A real shame that this never became a reality, don't you think?

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