Techland and Warner Bros. Interactive have released a new trailer for the upcoming first-person shooter, zombie horror video game Dying Light. The new trailer features a fun twist. It is an interactive, “Test Your Survival Skills,” trailer. The new extended gameplay video features over 25 minutes of new footage. The amazing thing about the trailer is that it offers viewers a choice, in a sort of “Choose Your Own Adventure” narrative. The video emphasizes the ability of player choice in this open-world romp.
The trailer does a great job of showcasing the freedom of movement players have as the game’s protagonist, zombie apocalypse survivor Kyle Crane. The Survival Skills trailer demonstrates that there is not one particular right way to approaching a specific mission. There are a number of different approaches and paths the player can take to successfully completei the mission. However, the gameplay video appears to emphasize stealth and evasion against the zombie hordes. Rather than a frontal assualt, players must be crafty and set traps to dispatch the zombies. So, stealth and evasion are more important than just trying to attack zombies head on. It adds to the fun parkour, free-running style the player has to utilize, Dying Light has nailed the element of the free running parkour style. If Kyle Crane attempts a direct frontal assault against a group of zombies, it leads to certain doom.
In addition, the new footage hints at just how huge the game is with all of the side quests and additional content. It appears Kyle Crane may divert from his mission and save other survivors, take on bandits or investigate some red signal smoke. The game looks like it will have a ton of content available for the single-player campaign, which is what I like in a game. The more content available on-disc the better.
Some of the interesting wrinkles of the combat were enjoyable. If there are hulking brute zombies, Crane can use that enemy’s weapon or momentum against them. He can outsmart brute zombie into attacking other zombies. He can target a gas tank that a zombie is wearing on its back and cause it to blow up. Techland really seems to have offered a ton of depth for the combat by thinking up a nearly endless list of ways Kyle Crane can kill zombies.
Dying Light is due out on January 27, 2015 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows PC in the US and January 28 in Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The game will be released in Europe on January 30.
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