Dead Block is a third-person

Virtual camera system

A virtual camera system aims at controlling a camera or a set of cameras to display a view of a 3D virtual world. Camera systems are used in videogames where their purpose is to show the action at the best possible angle; more generally, they are used in 3D virtual worlds when a third person view...

 action

Action game

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-strategy

Strategy video game

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 video game by developer Candygun Games and publisher Digital Reality

Digital Reality

Digital Reality is an Hungarian video game developer, located in Budapest, Hungary. The company is best known for developing the game Imperium Galactica series and Haegemonia: Legions of Iron.-History:...

, in which three survivors of a zombie outbreak

Zombie apocalypse

A zombie apocalypse is a particular scenario of apocalyptic literature that customarily has a science fiction/horror rationale. In a zombie apocalypse, a widespread rise of zombies hostile to human life engages in a general assault on civilization....

 attempt to keep zombie

Zombie

Zombie is a term used to denote an animated corpse brought back to life by mystical means such as witchcraft. The term is often figuratively applied to describe a hypnotized person bereft of consciousness and self-awareness, yet ambulant and able to respond to surrounding stimuli...

s out of a safehouse. It was released on July 6, 2011, on Xbox Live Arcade

Xbox Live Arcade

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. It was also released on the PlayStation Network on July 19, 2011 in North America and July 27, 2011 in Europe. A Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

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 release will follow. In the game, three characters use a combination of blockades, traps and weapons to fight off attacking zombies. It was developed with the Unreal 3 Engine

Unreal Engine

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The game can be played by four players in a split-screen format, and will include ten single-player levels and an additional eight multiplayer co-op

Cooperative

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 levels. The three characters include Jack Foster, a construction worker; Foxy Jones, a traffic warden; and Mike Bacon, a heavyset boy scout who is often eating. It is set during the 1950s, and the zombie outbreak coincides with the emergence of the rock and roll

Rock and roll

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genre of music during that time period.