Pre-Order Dying Light and Become a Zombie

Techland, the developers behind the upcoming zombie/parkour simulator “Dying Light” has announced that if you pre-order their game you’ll get exclusive access to a PVP multiplayer mode called “Be the Zombie.”

The special “Be the Zombie” PvP game mode provides gamers the ability to stalk other players as a night hunter, a lethal predator with unique and deadly skills like superhuman speed, a tendril used to grapple around the game world, special charge and distance attacks, and more. As an extremely rare zombie mutation, the night hunter is an agile, fast and dangerous enemy who emerges nocturnally in order to prevent the destruction of Hives by killing humans.

By playing as a night hunter, gamers will earn experience points and develop the character through its own special skill tree, as well as earn other exclusive rewards and perks. This multiplayer mode gives players an entirely new way to experience the world of Dying Light on top of the story campaign.

I think locking content behind pre-order bonuses is a bad idea in general.  Especially when it’s a multiplayer mode that should just be available with the game.  The press release for this mentions that the pre-order will be the only way players will get access to this mode “at launch.”  I hope this means that it’ll simply unlock later on, because if players have to pay for it I don’t think that’ll be a particularly well-received tactic.

“Dying Light” is due out on the PS3, PS4, XBox 360, XBox One, and PC in 2014.