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Zombies continue to be the new black as far as game design is concerned. More games are using some version of the undead as its major theme. One upcoming game that has zombies as its central feature is Trapped Dead, a tactical strategy game where players encounter the infected during a visit to what appears at first to be a nice small town.

The game comes from German developer Crenetic and will be published by Headup Games with Meridian4 handling the game's digital publishing here in the US. Big Download got the CEO of Crenetic, Carsten Widera-Trombach, to answer our questions about the game which should be released sometime in the first quarter of 2011.

The zombie genre is an already massive one, and there seems to be no end to the amount of zombie games being produced. That doesn't mean a new one can spring up and surprise us, however. Trapped Dead is a tactical RTS that looks very similar to some other strategy classics, such as the highly-regarded Commandos. This trailer shows off the gameplay for the title, and we have to say that it looks almost exactly like the old tactics games of yore. Games like Desperadoes, Commandos, or Baldur's Gate. We're definitely intrigued by it, but we're cautious, since there's just so many zombie games now.

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Trapped Dead may be another zombie-based game but at least it seems to be an interesting one. This week publisher Meridian4 announced that it would have the digital download rights to the Headup Games-developed title with a release sometime in January. Furthermore a demo for Trapped Dead is due out in December.

The game, which was first announced last April, is a third-person isometric strategy title as two college kids encounter the undead while passing through a small town in the 1980s. Players will have to control the kids as they use a variety of weapons to battle the zombies.The game will also support co-op with up to four players.

Are you ready for yet another zombie game? Headup Games hopes you are. The German developer who recently released the turn-based sci-fi strategy game Future Wars go in a new direction for their newly announced title Trapped Dead, a tactical real time strategy game where you have to deal with the undead.

Set in the early 1980s in a fictional small town in Missouri, the game centers on two college boys who find themselves dealing with the local folk who have been infected with a zombie-like virus. The game will also support co-op for up to four players. The game's official web site is already up but it only shows a Flash-based trailer with a few screenshots. Trapped Dead is looking to eat you, er, be released this November.