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Techland's Taking Another Swing at Killin' Zombies With Dying Light

It mostly looks like Dead Island with parkour, but, hell, that's enough!

Jun. 7 2013

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I'm going to go with "Cautiously optimistic"

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Holy hell! The people behind these trailers sure know how to cram a whole fuckton of despair into a couple of minutes.

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They have some great trailers... hopefully the game lives up to this.

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Another jolly evocative trailer if nothing else.

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Dammit techland, your games either have fucked up trailer endings that stick with you to some extent... or your games are fucked. But this looks interesting if they go where i think they'll go with it, very, interesting.

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Hmmmm interesting. I hope it's a combination of Mirror's Edge and L4D! I can't wait to hear more details on the gameplay.

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Do sewers really have ladders hanging over bottomless pits? That is horrifying.

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Will the female zombies present themselves to me after I bash their skulls in? Also, will the game invoke none of the feelings present in the trailer?

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Christ, enough with the goddam zombies already. I know it's a great excuse for crap AI and helps keep those budgets down, but jesus people.

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Zombkour? Kool.

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This certainly has potential. I am just hoping that Techland takes the extra time to polish this one. I had a great time with Dead Island, but it was really rough around the edges.

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Cliche.

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Techland: The kings of awesome trailers for shitty games.

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That's a pretty fun trailer.

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Mirror's Edge with a melee focus maybe? That would be kinda cool.

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The crate is full of doritos

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@jazzycola said:

@dark_lord_spam said:

I'm no level designer, but sewers don't seem like the greatest place to show off your awesome free-running gameplay.

Luckily that wasn't gameplay then.

Just expressing my hopes that Techland doesn't fall into the same trap they did with the two Dead Island games.

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Techland. We make trailers. Oh and games... kinda.

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The use of "Good Night, Good luck" got me kind of interested. Pretty great phrase with some historical merit to it, and well used considering the gameplay concepts.

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I'm no level designer, but sewers don't seem like the greatest place to show off your awesome free-running gameplay.

Luckily that wasn't gameplay then.

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But will the trucks parkour..?

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Mirror's Edge meets Dead Island? I like both so sounds good to me.

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I agree! even though I don't like Mirror's Edge & don't want to see a sequel!

BLASPHEMY

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This trailer ruined a brilliant song :(. Cutting it down and turning it into a musical nightmare

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I'm no level designer, but sewers don't seem like the greatest place to show off your awesome free-running gameplay.

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Nice trailer. I'll keep an eye on this.

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When those mutants/zombies fell into the pit, it almost sounded like that cartoon-y whistling sound.

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Interesting. So Techland are making two games based off mini games that were designed to be in dead island, this and Hellraid.

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@meatsim said:

How about a Werewolf or Mummy based apocalypse instead?

Yes, yes!

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Terrific use of Woodkid. Looks pretty interesting as well.

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@tidel said:

Great trailer. I'll give them that.

Agreed, whilst the bombsquad have coined the "good Techland/ bad Techland" turn of phrase, they sure as shit are consistent at making a good cg trailer.

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@tidel: only if its gonna be better than dead island.....

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This game just looks dumb

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Trailer looks cool. Ok Techland you have my attention :)

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@teoball: Sweet! I musta missed that AC one. Thanks, duder.

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Parkour in 1st person = a waste...

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@bumpton:

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This is still my favorite Woodkid trailer though.

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That CG trailer was fucking great, But then so was that first Dead Island CG trailer. Though Jeff seems pretty amped for this, optimistic for sure.

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Umm that was pretty rad. Hope we see some more of this next week.

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@pop said:

for a second there I thought the zombies were doing parkour too.

I think they were starting to, but they weren't very good at it.

This trailer was pretty good. I hope the game is alright. I don't know why Techland has a fascination with electrified weaponry.

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They still know how to make a trailer..

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So, someone decided that it would be cool to mix parkour with zombies. And Woodkid. I'm not sure about the whole '' let's all be super-athletes with gravity-defying wall-runs and yeaaaaaaaa ''.

On a serious note; i'm still waiting for that gruesome, mature zombie game. Oh, wait, there's Last of Us right around the corner.

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Anyone happen to know the song name?

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BAMF trailer! It's a zombie game...so yeah, I'm interested!

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trailer is nice :D

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@meatsim:

Not to get all nerd defensive on you but Mummy? I am totally with you for the werewolf part...or, though I hate it...maybe vampires? But I have never read or seen anything where Mummism (technical term) is transmitted somehow...and if it was....would they not be zombie equivalents? Just saying.

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Too bad there wasn't any real game footage but that's always the case with these first trailers I guess. This could be cool, but I think I'd like it more without zombies. That whole thing is really, really just done at this point, right?

Zombies are never done, until you shoot them in the head. Because well, they're zombies.

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Too bad there wasn't any real game footage but that's always the case with these first trailers I guess. This could be cool, but I think I'd like it more without zombies. That whole thing is really, really just done at this point, right?

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for a second there I thought the zombies were doing parkour too.