Dying Light is probably the biggest announcement in recent weeks. (The trailer is above.) This is a new game by Techland, the people who made Dead Island. (Which I still don’t have a computer capable of running, so I don’t really know how good it is.) This is a zombie action/survival game based on a tropical island… OK, so that sounds a lot like Dead Island. However, what’s keeping it apart from their other games is the heavy emphasis on parkour/free-running. So it’s basically Dead Island meets Mirror’s Edge. Sounds like a winning combo to me! Personally, I’m glad parkour games exist. I’m not all that athletic and if I ever tried it in real life I’d end up like that scene from The Office.
How to Stay Alive is the most recently announced of the group. Again, it’s got a heavy focus on survival and scavenging, but it’s also an isometric, third-person viewpoint game instead of the much more common first person perspective. Not much info about this game so far, though. So keep your eyes peeled.
Lastly we have a game called 7 Days to Die. Yet again it’s got a big focus on survival and scavenging. It also claims to be a sandbox game with an even bigger focus on crafting. I’ve seen people bandy about comparisons to Minecraft. I guess we’ll have to see. The picture here doesn’t look that great, but apparently it’s from a very early pre-alpha build, so they should have improved the graphics by the time it comes out later this year.
