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Open-World Zombie Game, Dying Light, Launching Earlier Than Expected

Techland's "action survival game" launching January 27.

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Polish developer Techland (Dead Island) announced today that its open-world zombie game, Dying Light, will be released on January 27 in North America, January 28 in Australia and New Zealand, and January 30 in Europe and Asia. That's slightly ahead of schedule, as the game was previously pegged to launch sometime in February 2015.

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Originally, however, the game was scheduled to arrive this fall. When it's released, Dying Light will be available for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PC.

Dying Light is available for preorder today, and doing so gets you a mode called Be the Zombie. In this mode, you play as a special breed of extra-deadly zombie called the Night Hunter that is super fast and agile. Your task is to seek out and kill human players.

In addition to Dying Light, Techland is working on hack-and-slash game Hellraid. For more on Dying Light, check out GameSpot's previous coverage. If you're more into Techland's Dead Island series, there are multiple new games in that series in development, though none of them are being made by Techland.

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What is it so hard for gaming companies to grasp when it comes to making a "zombie" game? I want to feel that I am in the apocalypse... I want to feel fear. If I was to live the apocalypse, I really doubt I will be running around comboing zombies for no reason.

I wish they spent their time on a good story, group survival and interactions instead of how I can combo 23 zombies with a comb.

I really like the open world and the mechanics look pretty cool.. sadly, it is just one big fancy demo and I have no doubt I will be bored by the 10th minute.


Whyyyy?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Go play DayZ. It's the most realistic portrayal of how crappy humans are and just how deep the shit you will end up in in a zombie apocalypse.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Yes its called DayZ.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> When it was a mod it was pure crap, and today it's not even finished yet. Save it when the definitive version comes out

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<< LINK REMOVED >> The only reason you think the mod was pure crap was because you sucked at it.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Sorry dude, the idea of the mod was awesome but poorly executed. It was overrated, deal with it

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Nah forget that I'd rather have fun killing Zombies in a zombie game I've never found zombies to be scary anyway so trying to make them scary seems like a waste of time. That's why I like games like Dead Rising 3, Dead Island 2, and Sunset Overdrive. This game looks good to probably pick it up as well.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Sunset Overdrive and Dead Island 2? How can you like a game you've never played?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Probably fun factor. I completely agree with you that there needs to be a good open world zombie apocalypse game where resources are scarce and most of the time it would be better to run from big groups, but a lot of people would probably think that is boring. That's why the arcade like Left 4 Dead games were received so well. Action is more fun to most.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Exactly, there are kinda 2 basic groups of zombie fans. One group are sort of purists, and the other group is everyone else :). The everyone else group likes most of the usual action stuff you'd find in games and also movies, so they just mix in zombies and there you go.


I'm more of a purist, although I will still sometimes enjoy the fast paced action zombie games. I do prefer the old Romero type situation though. It's not like jump scares and action all the time, but rather scenarios like we are barricaded safely but there's thousands of zombies outside and eventually they might break through, or maybe we're totally safe from the zombies but how the heck are we gonna get out and back in to find food/supplies. I do realize that large numbers of zombies can also present technical problems for games.


Short answer, comboing 23 zombies is what most people want. If you want that other kinda zombie game, you'll probably never find it in the AAA big budget space, well maybe H1Z1 will come through :).

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<< LINK REMOVED >> ZombiU is probably the closest to an "accurazte" zombie game there has been in quite some time.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> *yawn*

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Only Makuch would report a game releasing earlier than the time it had been DELAYED to as "early"

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For me great news.

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That is sooooo sweet. Thanks Techland and getting the PS4 for Dying Light.

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I can't stand Dead Island. It lacks any sort of quality to it and just screams bargain bin right from the start.

Dying Light is Dead Island with running. I honestly don't know why people pay for this trash.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Something to do with people having different tastes, maybe.

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so many zombie movies/shows and games if the real thing happened NO one would really die

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It's techland , bad budget games . Why bother ? Ah well some people can actualy afford to waste money ...Lucky them .

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assassins creed...just with zombies....and better graphics. I liked dead island, although more copy and paste like many other games, it was still good, just didn't have a good story to it. I will be getting Dying Light sooner or later, i like open world games and to have zombies in it makes it a lot better than those cheesy resident evil games.

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Too fake and "dead island-ish" for my taste. I wish they made it a bit slower when it comes to action... it's Serious Sam with zombies.

Kill, kill, kill .. run, combo.. kill, kill, kill run faster another combo.. kill, kill.. etc. No story and no sense of apocalypse.

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Are you fkn kidding me?!? THATS what I like about this game, the action!!! I hate first person perspective games but the action is what makes me tolerate them (bulletstorm, Unreal Tournament) fk the story and HELL TO THE NOOOOO!!!! do NOT slow down the game....stick with thief if you want boring games!!!

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Man I could not agree with you more man seriously you were totally on point.

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Looking forward to this one! Had it pre-ordered for a while.

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Ok this all very cool... but what is the objective of the game? just run around?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> story co-op

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Ah so there will be an objective to travel around! It's just until now all the videos I saw was just the player jumping around, don't get me wrong it looks very good, but without an objective it just seems pointless.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> If you look up gameplay videos on YouTube, some commentators were able to get demos of the game from the developer, and those demos have random missions in them. I don't know if those missions will be in the final game, but it at least gives you a better impression of the game than the trailers :p

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Yes?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> really? wouldn't that get old fast?

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think this game is gonna be great and amusing in many ways (=

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*yawn. I agree with everyone below. This Zombie fad is gotten old. Just like WWII FPS titles and Vampires.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Vampires...? I'm sorry but vampire never got old... they just became corrupted with certain peoples... interpretations (bastardizations...) of them!

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<< LINK REMOVED >> You can thank Twilight for that one lol

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@Romayo83 I don't think that True Blood show does them any favours either! I agree with you on zombies though... way too played out over the last 5 years or so!

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@Romayo83 I disagree withe everyone down below...FPS like COD, BF and Destiny would be great if they gets old and die!

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<< LINK REMOVED >> COD im tired of but at least they use different time periods. WWII to present and future same with BF.

Destiny has been out for 2 days. I enjoy it a lot.

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Isn't the game still in a beta?

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This genre not dead yet?

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Nope, it's UNDEAD.

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To many other studios delayed their holiday 2014 games to February 2015, so they had to bump up the game to prevent themselves from getting overrun, eh?

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If video games are really a viable training tool, this generation should be the Navy SEALs of murdering undead. I can't believe the genre has slowed up yet

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We have achieved coolness...

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