Dying Light Doesn't Require You To Kill Zombies

In a surprising revelation, Tymon Smektala announced that Dying Light won't require players to kill zombies at all if they so choose.

[x800]

This is a exciting zombie game to look forward to.

[BobBelcher]

Pacifism towards zombies? Not in my universe.

[SpinalRemains138]

I get the idea of choice and all, but come on....

How is it possible to survive and succeed in a zombie outbreak if one does not take part in the shooting of the brains?

I'm intrigued, though there is no way I would ever go that route. I'm killin' me some zombies!

[Ron_Danger]

I'm guessing it means no forced sections where you have to survive wave after wave of zombies...

I'm hoping it means that every encounter will be fight or flight. A real zombie survival game where every scripted encounter feels like you need to make tough decisions with real consequences.

[Alexious]

Yes, that is the idea. The freeform running is there for exactly that reason, you can avoid combat most of the time.

[cleft5]

If you really think about it the last thing you would want to do is fight a zombie in a zombie outbreak because you could end up getting overwhelmed and rushed. The idea would be to avoid fighting them as much as possible, after all it would only take one bit or scratch to turn you. I am really excited by this idea, at the very least it will mean they will avoid situations that happened in Dead Island 1 and 2 where you was constantly dying to insanely overpowered zombies.

[Audiggity]

Yeah you was.

[wallis]

Definitely killing them myself but I do like games such as State of Decay where stealth is a critical part of the game. This excites me because it shows a lot of thought about the design, and also a willingness to utilize zombies in more than just a cannon fodder role.

Plus as fun as it is to slaughter hordes endlessly like Dead Rising I think it dilutes the whole idea of an endless horde. I mean would you really bother even firing a pistol with 20 rounds into a horde that's well over a few thousand strong, or would you just leg it?

[Rmx212]

Zombies I game and don't have to kill them umm yea I need some more info on this

[FANTA1180]

doesnt look interesting, but dead island was pretty good.

[Ricegum]

Looks interesting, but Dead Island wasn't very good.

[MidnytRain]

Award for the most backwards person of the day goes to...

[FANTA1180]

i dont have to agree.

and dead island sold alot of copies.

give the award to yourself if you think that looks good , mirrors edge zombie edition.

http://www.metacritic.com/g...

80 metacritic .... nuff said

[MidnytRain]

Lol, you think Dead Island was good...

You're the minority, guy.

This game doesn't even need to exist with a new Mirror's Edge coming.

[Alexious]

Actually Dead Island was quite good, and this looks even more interesting thanks to the Mirror's Edge influence.

[HmongAmerican]

Makes the zombies hard to kill or makes them kill the player with 3 to 4 hits. Otherwise people going to kills every last one of these zombies on screen. The last time I saw the demo of this game. It use regenerate health. Zombie games is better with health packs.

[Maxor]

Mirrors Edge with zombies. Not exactly what I was looking for in the zombie genre. I prefer my zombie games with more survival than action and in that regard State of Decay is king.