Dying Light night time gameplay trailer released

Written by Brandon Hofer on December 17, 2013

News: Techland shows off gameplay during one of the most dangerous parts of the game, the night time.

A new trailer has just been released for one of Warner Bros’s upcoming games, Dying Light. Being developed by Techland, this new video showcases the darker side of the game’s day and night cycle mechanic. The video gives a glimpse into different strategies that players will adopt depending on the time of day in order to survive.

Slow, apathetic, and easily visible, the infected are not much of a threat in the daylight. A skilled courier, sure of their parkour skills and smart enough not to engage in combat with too many enemies, can effortlessly avoid larger groups of the infected or escape beyond their reach. This relatively safe state changes drastically though once the sun comes down.

At night, it is you who is at a disadvantage. Without daylight, the senses of the infected become more acute while their thirst for human flesh skyrockets. They run, jump and climb so there is really no place where you are safe anymore. They grow in strength, which means fighting them is not even an option. Those of them who were too afraid of light to come out during the day now swarm the city hunting for you. Still, with all of that said, there is something even worse lurking in the shadows.

Dying Light is a first-person action survival horror game set in a vast and dangerous open world, where players scavenge for supplies during the day as to be best prepared to survive the night. The game is currently set to launch in 2014 on Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS4, PS3 and PC. Will you be picking it up?