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Linus tech tips coverage of pax 2013 is brought to you by western digital Intel and steel series hey guys we're here with Tim checking out dying light and I just got to try the day and night playthrough that was pretty insane can you tell me exactly what happened in there well thank light is a first-person open-world action survivor game with day and night cycle and right here at the PAX Prime we focus on the nighttime part of the game so the game what during the day you are the haunted you you have that advantage of a zombies that you are that intelligent human with a weapon in hand during the night the rules change because the zombies get more aggressive and they get more intelligent they can climb on top of things just as good as you they can chase you actively so you really have to bring your top notch game to the table and and that's what you experienced I think yeah definitely winter became nighttime the game evolves essentially one of the main things that I noticed is as you're running by the zombies they'll kind of get this little red glow explosion thing can you explain to me what's going on right there but that's just just just to tell you that they evolve so when they evolve they turn into this night forms and the night forms well well there are something that you don't really want to meet them in a dark alley or in a supermarket or whatever you just don't want to have nothing to do with those guys yes I I felt that you didn't want anything to do with anything basically at nighttime just get away and stay in your traps um the slogan that you guys have good night good luck that's very yeah he said when it went nighttime he was like good luck you have to get back to your grace it's very applicable there's not too many slogans that are that applicable to the game what is your favorite part of this game well I think the natural movement system and I we get that from previous so people like you play the game and they always tell us that hey the natural movement system it is something unique it is something that I haven't experienced before the fluidity of it that that like it's very natural to you for you to traverse the environment and we try to give you that freedom of traversing the environments so if you see something that's within your reach that in real life you you would really could be able to reach grab and climb on top of it you can do in our game and since you play as this athletic characterized by cruise specialists and well you have those such assessment options that it gives you that freedom definitely I noticed especially coming from more of a pc background when I touched the controller I was automatically out of my element but it wasn't hard to pick up by the end of the demo I could tell I was much better than when I first started and some free movement style mechanics and games can be more hand holdy than others and some of them you just hold the button and it kind of does everything for you I liked this one was a little bit more interactive you had to kind of decide what you're going to do that was really nice to see I know coming from dead island it's not the same game so what are the unique features of this game you find well the natural movement of course the day/night cycle so these are the two things that really differentiate that one from the island but I think that what that island really was a very basic game very very simple game it was hack and slash game with zombies with first-person perspective right now we always try to give you these options so you can always in a fight either run that try to be smart about it and use the traps that you've just said maybe use some gadgets that you having an inventor like the firecrackers you can show firecrackers at one location and the zoms crowd around it for a second so that opens up new ways for you so this is a game about freedom about options about and about decisions and I hope that people will make the right decisions because because if they if they make our if they make a wrong decision then they screwed basically it yeah talking about traps and the firecrackers in that kind of stuff what are some of the nice interesting unique mechanics that you have I know there was the the car trap that was probably my favorite one what other examples are there but well the car but she said the car alarm job is really my favorite as well what it does when you activate it the car alarm goes off and the zombies Crowder on the car and then the car explode so they like flying all around the screen there's also this like say lights trap light trap is like the survivors rewired light lamp posts and when you are being chased during the night and you activate that the death trap the whole intersection is like it's flooded with light so zombies get disoriented and you get this few of precious second few precious seconds to escape so that's the the stuff like that and we have like eff that few dozens of things like like that in our game that's awesome and those few couple seconds that he said with the light trap are definitely needed it's not like a few couple seconds it's not a big deal it's that's a really big deal how would someone go about getting this game and what platforms can I get it on the gamecocks that comes out next year for pc ps3 ps4 xbox 360 and xbox one but what's what's important is that the whole game can be played in co-op so you can play the game in four player co-op from A to Z but it is dropping drop out so you can start the game solar then you play for a couple of hours then maybe a friend joins in you play together for a couple of hours but you don't have to stick together you're just in the same game world so you can go into separate directions you can do different missions and after he drops out you just continue solo main story and also a couple days ago we've announced our new mode BD zombie is a PvP mode for our game so that's a mode that allows you to play as a zombie and invite in invade other people's games so and you also get that like special character progression systems like set of zombie skills that you build along the way so at the end of it you become that ultimate zombie and you can go mess with your friends games and that's something that really is cool that would be a lot of fun just screw now with all my friends that's really cool and it's nice to see that you guys have co-op up to four players because I've noticed a trend lately as that co-op isn't that really good thing but a lot of people are looking for it so it's great to see a game like this which would work so well with co-op to actually be implementing it thank you for showing us around dying light that was great if you want to see the rest of our packs content be sure to subscribe to Linus tech tips and good night and good luck