The Division meets The Last of Us in the oddly hilarious trailer for The Day Before

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Day Before is a new open-world survival MMO sitting somewhere between The Division's post-disaster narrative and the zombie-adjacent tale of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Last of Us, and it's reveal trailer is absolutely unmissable. 🦹;

Kudos to developer Fntastic (not a typo, by the way) for coming out of the gate with five minutes of gameplay footage. At first blush, The Day Before looks like a solid third-person shooter with a focus on stealth, crafting, and inventory managem♍ent, not unlike the Stalker games. The various status meters in the bottom left add another shot of survival oomph. 

Over the course of five minutes, our unlikely heroes scavenge for goods, face off with other players in some 'impromptu' PvP, and poke around a dimly lit office while evading ravenous infected. The city they're scouring looks great, particularly the lighting. Just look at the shine on those puddles and leather backpacks. The street lights connected by holiday lights make me wonder where this particular section is set; the trailer confirms that The Day Before has "a huge, stunningly detailed posᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚt-apocalyptic world destroyed by a terrible virus" but doesn't specify the city. 

The Day Before

(Image credit: Fntastic)

So far, so gameplay trailer. But The Day Before's promising, if familiar ideas are elevated by some of the most endearingly campy performances I've ever seen. It opens with a topical gut punch: a newspaper reports that "Billionaires see fortunes rise by 27% during the pandemic" with a subsection noting that "Winter is coming." I, too, have seen Game of Thrones and survived a pandemic; mark me down as invested in this world. I've also seen a million looter-shooter gameplay trailers where voice actors try to act like teammates ch🌄atting on Discord, and The Day Before has the best one yet. 

and doesn't have a firm release date just y🦩et. 

Speaking of The Division and zombies: The Division 2 is getting a surprise Resident Evil crossover event next month.

Austin Wood
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