There’s nothing legally wrong with using the same font as a competitor product and a similar hero image composition. What it has shown is a notable reverence to The Last of Us, particularly in its choice of font (opens in new tab) and proclivity for using that font next to a scarred protagonist wearing a ‘seen some shit but I remain determined’ expression. I’m just saying it’s given absolutely no indication yet that it will do.
Days Gone… well, there was a motorbike, wasn’t there?Īnd I’m not even saying The Day Before can’t, or won’t say, or do something new. Left 4 Dead laid the foundations of online co-op as we know it.
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Naughty Dog showed us how to tell a tear-jerking tale that genuinely gets under your skin while you’re simultaneously cracking mushroom people over the head with a brick. But that’s the thing: it has to be new material.Īll the games above said or did something new. No, the post-apocalyptic zombie survival game is a genre now, with established conventions and an open-door policy to new material. Lest we forget, people were already a bit tired of zombs and post-apocalypse when The Last of Us was first released in 2013. All those aforementioned titles found appreciative fanbases and managed to discern themselves from each other. It’s not that nobody’s allowed to make zombie games now, and that we should raise the drawbridge on the whole concept. It looks to be a fully-functioning vertical slice, but it also doesn’t offer anything to suggest it’s doing something new. How many existing games could that sentence accurately describe? What new ground is there to be broken on the topic of post-pandemic Americas overrun by flesh-hungry infected and survivors killing each other for biscuits and petrol? Did The Last of Us, State of Decay, Left 4 Dead, Dying Light, Days Gone, 7 Days to Die, Dead Rising, World War Z, and The Walking Dead leave many stones unturned, in that regard? And did the 200+ hours offered by The Division and its sequel leave many unanswered questions about what that scenario would be like in MMO form?įollowing the news of its delay, Fntastic has released a 10-minute gameplay video (opens in new tab) (which you can watch below) showing the zombie survival game in action, without the frequent cuts seen in previous trailers. What new ground is there to be broken on the topic of post-pandemic Americas overrun by flesh-hungry infected?
IGN hosted The Day Before’s ‘gameplay’ reveal (opens in new tab) in January but, before you even take a magnifying glass to that video, absent of any UI or clips longer than three seconds, read the synopsis for the game: ‘ The Day Before is an open-world MMO survival set in a deadly, post-pandemic America overrun by flesh-hungry infected and survivors killing each other for food, weapons, and cars’.
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