Dying Light coming sooner than expected

By Will Fulton September 12, 2014

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Techland’s parkour-infused zombie survival game, Dying Light, will be coming out on January 27, 2015 in the Americas, January 28 in Australia and New Zealand, and January 30 in Europe and Asia. This slightly rolls back a delay announced earlier in 2014, which had pushed the game to a February 2015 release.

This first-person open world action survival game has you spend the day scavenging for supplies so you can hole up at night and protect your base when the zombies become more aggressive after dark. Techland made a splash in 2011 with another first person zombie survival game, Dead Island. Dying Light will build on that experience with a focus on fluid, free-running movement that should bolster your sense of being immersed in a genuine open world, rather than a prescribed level bound by invisible walls.

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