Guns, pipe wrenches, concrete blocks, your elbows: when you’re stuck on the streets with a swarm of zombies, you fight with anything to stay alive. With the video game trade show Gamescom right around the corner, Techland has unveiled a new trailer for their zombie survival game Dying Light, and it displays the 4-player co-op mode. Rest assured: you don't have to face the zombie hordes alone.
Originally slated to be released this year, Techland announced a delay in Dying Light‘s release until February 2015, promising a more enriching gamer experience as a result. The new trailer for Dying Light promises plenty of white-knuckled close-quarters combat with the living dead, showcasing an arsenal of available weapons. We have the Gamescom trailer below (courtesy of IGN), and for those unfamiliar with Dying Light, we also have the game’s synopsis and features:
“Dying Light is a first-person, action survival horror video game with a harrowing day-night cycle set in a vast open world. Currently under development by Techland, the game will be available in 2014 [now 2015] for Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®4, plus Xbox 360, PlayStation®3 system, and PC.
During the day, players will traverse an expansive urban environment overrun by a vicious outbreak, scavenging the world for supplies and crafting weapons to defend against the growing infected population. At night, the hunter becomes the hunted, as the infected become aggressive and more dangerous. Most frightening are the predators which only appear after sundown. Players must use everything in their power to survive until the morning’s first light.”
Features:
Free Running Movement – Whether tracking prey or escaping predators, Dying Light lets players swiftly navigate the world by seamlessly leaping between buildings, grappling up walls and pouncing on unsuspecting enemies.
Open World Environments – Dying Light is set in a vast open world, delivering expansive and varied environments, a wide variety of enemy classes and a hopeless tale of survival where resources are scarce and the infected are not the only threat.
Brutal Melee and Ranged Combat – get up-close using a variety of light and heavy weapons including knives, bats, axes, sledgehammers and more exotic weaponry or utilize guns and other firepower to take down enemies from a distance.
Choose Your Play Style – Dying Light features four playable characters that can be fully customized and upgraded to match any play style.
Craft Your Weapon – Why use a wrench when you can use a wrench wrapped in electrified barbed wire? Dying Light’s sizeable crafting system enables players to create a slew of new, more potent weapons and equipment, as well as specialized ammunition.
Breathtaking Visuals and Gameplay – Dying Light is the first game powered by Chrome Engine 6, a cutting edge incarnation of Techland’s proprietary technology, designed from the ground up for the new console generation, DirectX 11 and other advanced solutions.”
Held in Cologne, Germany from August 13th - 17th, Gamescom is drawing nearer, and more video game announcements and revealings are on-deck. We’ll keep Daily Dead readers posted on further developments with Dying Light and other horror games.
Check out our previous coverage of Dying Light:
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
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