Bored with the whole zombie thing? Dead Alliance promises an inventive new take on the genre and today has got itself not just a new trailer, but a fully confirmed release date.

Due for arrival come August 29th 2017, Dead Alliance will release on Xbox One, PS4 and PC. A tactically competitive multiplayer first person shooter, you’ll find that zombies are not just the enemy in Dead Alliance – they are also the weapons. You’ll need to utilise them strategically in order to distract and destroy your unsuspecting foes. If you don’t seize the dead, you may just find yourself becoming one of them.

Set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where military bases are humanity’s last city-states, Dead Alliance sees teams of warring players going up against each other for survival in a world ravaged by the zombie plague. There will be a variety of single-player and 4v4 multiplayer modes, including Team Deathmatch, Free for All, King of the Hill, and Capture and Hold, in place, as well as the MOBA-inspired Attrition mode and Solo Survival mode.

To succeed, you’ll need to customise and upgrade your loadouts with an arsenal of high-powered, military-grade weapons and advanced zombie-controlling tech called zMods. Examples of zMods include the Enrager – a pheromone bomb that turns a single zombie into a soldier of superior strength and resistance on your side – and the PAM grenade, which puts four zombies to work for you, but does not increase their damage resistance. Use these and many more zMods available in the game to get the undead to join forces with you!

It all sounds pretty damn cool to us and will be there on the zombie filled battlefield come August. Will you join us?