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Dying Light no longer coming to Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3

Fans of zombie games who haven’t yet made the jump to the PS4 or Xbox One are in for a bit of a sad January: developer Techland has announced they will not be releasing their open-world zombie game Dying Light on the PlayStation 3 or Xbox One. Talk about leaving it to the last minute.

The studio announced the change on the Dying Light Facebook page, saying, essentially, that the Xbox 360 and PS3 are just not powerful enough to give players the game the designers intended.

They wrote “As you probably know, we’re wrapping up the development of Dying Light, our biggest and most ambitious project to date. We spent the last three years making sure that all the features of our game add up to create a truly next-gen experience.

Much of this “next-gen feel” is tightly connected to the technological side of Dying Light. For instance, up to 200,000 objects can be displayed in the game at once. Add to this our use of realistic, physics-based lighting technology and you really start to push the next-gen systems to the limits.

Features like these along with our core gameplay pillars – such as the player-empowering Natural Movement, threefold character development system, and vast open world – are all an inherent part of how Dying Light plays. However, combining all of these into one fluid experience is only possible on technologically advanced platforms.

Therefore, after thorough internal testing, we have come to the conclusion that we have no choice but to leave past-gen systems behind and release Dying Light exclusively on the next-gen consoles and PC. Put simply, older consoles just couldn’t run the game and stay true to the core vision of Dying Light at the same time.”

I struggle to wrap my mind around this one; surely they’ve known for a long, long time that the game simply wasn’t going to work on last-gen hardware? Not that I’m unhappy, mind – I’ve been of the opinion for a while now that co-developing for all platforms is nothing but a thorn in the side of true progress.

Whatever the case, there will be no Dying Light for the two older consoles. On the bright side, having seen and played the game on a high-end PC at rAge, I’m confident it’s the right decision – the visuals, movement and lighting I saw are nothing short of incredible.

Here’s a quick trailer showing just how good the game looks:

[Source – Dying Light Facebook page, Image – Dyinglightgame.com]

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