Here's a 12 minute gameplay demo of Dying Light, Techland's free-running zombie survival game. It looks impressive, every bit the Mirror's Edge-meets-Dead Island thing that Stephen talked when he first saw the game earlier this year.
It's nice to finally see the game in action. Dying Light will be released next year across both current-gen and next-gen platforms, but this demo seems pretty clearly next-gen. Look at that foliage blow in the wind! That is some next-gen foliage, buddy. (I've hit up Warner Bros. to see which platform this demo's running on. Probably a PC, if I had to guess.)
Some of this seems pretty rote—particularly the big "bruiser zombie" that pops out at one point—but other parts seem cool, in particular the great-looking running animations and the way that the city's design seems to allow for true improvisation. As long as you really have to keep avoiding confrontation and never get, say, a flame-thrower, this game could be a lot of fun. That said, I've never really loved Techland's Dead Island (though I know some do), so I'm hopeful but a bit wary that Dying Light will be a less janky experience.
Also: Favelas really are the new hotness in games, huh? Hey, at least they're colorful.
What do you guys think? Ach, ja or nicht nicht?