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and steel series hey guys we're here with Tim checking out Dying Light and I
just got to try the day and night playthrough that was pretty insane can
you tell me exactly what happened in there well Dying Light is a first person
open world action Survival game with day and night cycle and right here at PX
Prime we focus on the nighttime part of the game so the game what during the day
you are the haunted you you have that advantage over zombies that you are that
intelligent human with a weapon in hand uh during the night the rules change
because the zombies get more aggressive and uh they get more intelligent they
can climb on top of things just as good as you they can chase you actively so
you really have to bring your top notch game to the table and and that's what
you experienced I think yeah definitely once it became nighttime the game
evolves essentially one of the main things that I noticed is as you're
running by the zombies they'll kind of get this little red Glow Explosion thing
can you EXP expl to me what's going on right there well that's just just just
to tell you that they evolve so when they evolve they turn into these night
forms and they night forms well wow
there are something that you don't really want to meet them in a dark alley
or in a supermarket or whatever you just don't want to have nothing to do with
those guys yeah seriously I I felt that you didn't want anything to do with
anything basically at night time just get away and stay in your traps um the
slogan that you guys have um good night good luck that's
very yeah he said when it went night time he was like good luck you have to
get back to your base and it's very applicable there's not too many slogans
that are that applicable to the game what is your favorite part of this game
well I think the natural movement system and I we get that from previous people
like you play the game and they always tell us that hey the natural movement
system it is something unique it is something that I haven't experienced
before the fluidity of it that that that like it's very natural to you for you to
Traverse the environment and we try to give you that freedom of traversing the
environment so if if you see something that's within your reach that in real
life you you would really could be able to reach grab and climb on top of it you
can do it in our game and since you play as this athletic character sper
specialist uh well you have those such
such many options that uh it gives you that freedom definitely I noticed
especially coming from more of a PC background when I touched the controller
I was automatically out of my element but it wasn't hard to pick up by the end
of the demo I could tell I was much better than when I first started and um
some free movement style uh mechanics in
games can be more handh holdy than others and some of them you just hold
the button and it kind of does everything for you I liked this one was a little bit more interactive you had to
kind of decide what you're going to do that was really nice to see um I know
coming from Dead Island it's it's not the same game so what are the unique
features of this game do you find well the natural movement of course the day
and night cycles so these are the two things that really differentiate that
one from Dead Island but I think that the well that Island really was a very
basic game very very simple game it was hacken SL game with zombies with first
person perspective right now we always try to give you these options so you can
always either fight either run either
try to be smart about it and use the traps that you just said maybe use some
gadgets that you have in your inventory like the firecrackers you can throw
firecrackers at one location and the zombies CR around it for a second so
that opens up new ways for you so this is a game about Freedom about options
about and about decisions and I hope that people will make the right
decisions because because if they if they make a if they make a wrong
decision then they screwed basically yeah talking about traps and the
firecrackers and that kind of stuff what are some of the nice interesting Unique
Mechanics that you have I know there was the the car trap that was probably my
favorite one what other examples are there like well the car trap as you said
the car alarm trap is really my favorite as well well what it does when you
activate it the car alarm goes off and the zombies crowd around the car and
then the car explodes so they're like flying all around the screen there's
also this like say light STP light trap
uh is like the survivors rewire the L
lamp posts and when you're being chased during the night and you activate that
that trap the whole intersection is like it's flooded with lights so the zombies
get disoriented and you get this few precious second to few precious seconds
to escape so that's to the there there's stuff like that and we have like a few
dozen of things like like that in our game that's awesome and those few couple
seconds that he said with the light trap are definitely needed it's not like a
few couple seconds it's not a big deal it's that's a really big deal how would
someone go about getting this game and what platforms can they get it on well
the game comes comes out next year for PC PS3 PS4 Xbox 360 and Xbox one but
what's what's important is that the whole game can be played in Co-op so uh
you can play the game in four player co-op from A to Z but it it is drop in
drop out so you can start the game solo then you play for a couple of hours then
maybe your friend joins in you play together for a couple of hours but you
don't have to stick together you're just in the same game world so you can go
into separate directions you can do different missions and after he drops
out you just continue solo uh like your main story and also a couple of days ago
we've announced our new mode B the zombie is a PVP mode for our game so
that's a mode that allows you to play as a zombie and invite
in invade other people's games so uh and
you also get that like special character
progression systems like set of zombie skills that you build along the way so
at the end of it you become that ultimate zombie and you can go mess with
your friends games and that's something that really is cool that would be a lot
of fun just screwing around with all my friends that's really cool and it's nice to see that you guys have co-op up to
four players because I've noticed a trend lately is that Co-op isn't that
big of a thing but a lot of people are looking for it so it's great to see a
game like this which would work so well with Co-op to actually be implementing
it thank you for showing us around Dying Light that was great if you want to see
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night and good luck