About

Cadaver March is a zombie styled mod based on VALVe's game called Half-Life2. Half-Life 2 won many GOTY awards and we will use that success to lift CM up across the mod ranks, and possibly get industry jobs. The basic premise of Cadaver March, or CM as we refer to it from here on,  is that zombies have invaded the earth. How did those zombies come to earth you ask? Simple, it is nothing to do with satelites or rising from graves, it is much worse. A negro woman called Mombassa has used her voodoo powers to turn all humankind into zomjbies. She uses a skeleton necklace with burning red eyes to dig deep inside peoples hearts and take out all that is evil and manifest it in them. First their skin turns black, then they rot and hunger for flesh. BUT If their skin is already black they just rot and hunger for flesh. After a while she has converted many people, but the dangers for her life is grave. SHe turns to a man called Dr. Robotnick, he helps her create super zombies mixed with rotten metal parts, and together they work to take over the world. Using horrific black zombies mixed with contemporary metal parts, they slaughter mankind one by one. Their dicatorial union is by most people referred to as the Cadaver March.

 BUT THEN

A small group of humans, or actually mutants, with special powers like invisibilty and regeneration, work together to take down this evil menace. The name of this group is exo-squad. A brave battle ensues and YOU decide the outcome.

Cadaver March will be both singleplayer and multiplayer. Therefore we will start by explaining multiplayer first and singeplayer after.

Multiplayer:

CM multiplayer part is an FPS/RTS mix hybrid. People can choose to play as the Cadaver March team and help bring zombie order to earth, or fight as the resistance, exo-squad, and wax some frickin zombies :)

The Cadaver March team is all about numbers and macro management. The upper managment consists of Mombassa and Robotnick. Mombassa controls all the zombie squad leaders, which i will get to later. Robotnicks job is to create buildings and upgrade zombies to become better at being killers, and every map starts with a set number of zombies usually about 1000. If these positions arent filled, AI will control them. The rest of the players on the team are squad leaders, and all the zombies on the map are divided between their command. The squad leaders can then issue orders to the zombies, like "follow me" or "advance towards the front", but in zombie voices of course lol.

The Exo-Squad teams focus is all about individual heroics and skills. They have only one leader, and hes called Xavier. He issues order to all players on the team. The rest of the team can use special power ups, like regeneration and invisiblity, and xavier can upgrade various items for them such as gravity boots and xray glasses.

The goal of each team depends on the gamemode. In "All-out destruction" each team must DESTROY their enemies, every single last one of them until there are noone left and noone breathes, moves or exists. Not even a weapon, you must throw them out of the skybox.

In "CTF" you must capture the enemies flag. This is very hard as a zombie because youre slow like a turtle. But we have a fix for that and we call it leg boosters. They boost your legs to new limits! However, in order for Robotnick to makes these, the zombies need to find 6 cauliflowers around the map. These are usually located in a cool, moist climate. If temperatures go too high, the plants will not produce flower heads. If too low a temperature is reached, the plants might button, creating small heads. The cauliflowers must be perfect or else Robotnick cant work with them.

For more multiplayer features check feature list.

Singleplayer:

In the singleplayer version of the mod, you play as a totally normal average teenage mutant called Streamer. The reason your name is Streamer is because your special ability is to constantly stream new mission-vital information from the global wide network. More on that later. As Streamer, you must find out what has gone wrong with the world, and discover the opportunities of life. You do this mostly by perfoming tasks like walking and shooting and streaming. We promise that the atmosphere will be creppy and we will have tens of thousands of polies. Our mapper Daedeman is currently making the maps in Half-Life 1 because he hasn't bought half-life 2 yet. We will use valves conversion tools to convert the maps to source.

When Streamer is streaming, he has a screen that will look similar to the concept art in our media section. Here he can download all sorts of strategies for his area, and also download computer viruses to put in zombies bodies with a tiny hacking computer. His streaming abilities make their biggest showoff near the end when you must defeat Dr. Robotnick.

Zombie Herding is another singeplayer style without a storyline. You must herd zombies into a fenced area. Its hard at first but suddenly youll be better. Later we are also possibly planning a zombie rodeo mode.

Some Cadaver March concept art below.

- Zombies! Cadaver March will be able to have about a 1000 zombies on the screen at the same time without slowdowns. Think serious sam but bigger.

- Singeplayer AND Multiplayer!

- Large collection of weapons to blow apart limbs and arms and brains! About 150 weapons, which includes about 100 melee weapons. 

- Many many vehicles! Cars, ferraris, helicopters, boats, flying planes, snowboards and scootors, rideable animals(like horses), tanks and a shitload of others! Like machinegun cars! 

- A fantastic and original FPS/RTS hybrid mod!

- Integrated physics gameplay! We are going to fully use valves great work on their physics mod. Cut down the wire on that piano to smash a bunch of zombies or throw items like chair, boxes and dildos at the zombies. Haha just kidding no dildos sorry girls :)

- Many gamemodes! "All-out destruction" "CTF" and a new style called "Zombie Herding", where you must herd zombies into a fenced area. Sort of like cattle.

- Our design philosophy is that players must be able to choose their own experience while playing. If you want to play a scary survival horror game, then do it! Or just go all out rampage on those pesky zombies lol!

- Many different new zombie places! A mall, a house, a bar, a large cruise ship, a space station and a military base that experiments on zombies!

- Ingame MP3 player! Listen to the music you like while playing to immerse yourself in the game, Britaney Spears or Slayer or whatever.

- A brand new HUD? Tired of the old Half-Luife 2 HUD? Our very own Cpt. Sniper is making us a new and very immersive one! 

- Many other things!