Zombie City: Enter the Carnage (Game)

Zombie City: Enter the Carnage is a game developed and published by Walton Computer Sciences and released in 2009 for the PC and Xbox 360. A PS3 and Wii port were planned, but the negative reviews kept them from being released. It was a reboot of the Zombie City franchise, that went without a new entry since 2003. It was developed with consent of the original creators and copyright-holders, who insisted they have a part in the project, when Walton refused. Walton then paid them a few hundred thousand dollars (exact amount undisclosed) to publish the game, to which they agreed. The game had been in development for 4 years before release to the public, with the original build looking very promising, and also being a direct sequel to the already-established long running Zombie City franchise. Around 2007, the game development halted, and they began planning of a reboot. All of the footage that was then shown to the original creators was actually footage from the continuation of the original build from 2006 that was shelved to make the reboot, which was in development by another team in Walton. That game would eventually be released in 2010 as Zombie City: Rampage, being debatably the best game in the series up to that point. They had no idea that another project was in development, and they sued Walton Computer Sciences for an undisclosed sum. Walton had lost the trial and took Enter the Carnage off of the shelves for 2 weeks, before renaming it "Zombies in Arms" and putting it back on shelves, including a few bugfixes. Zombies in Arms and Enter the Carnage both received abysmal reviews, and Walton went quiet for the following year, becoming active again in 2011. The Zombies in Arms manual actually included a section of Walton staff personally apologizing for the games low quality, and some encouraging the buyer to return the game and find a better one.