ABOVE The roofs
of an entire city
will be your
parkour
playground.
RIGHT “What are
you lot hanging
around for?”ETATBC 2019PUBLISHERWARNER BROSDEVELOPERTECHLANDGAMING’S MOST ATHLETIC UNDEAD RETURN
Dying Light 2
echland’s unshakable
undead sandbox was
the little ghoul that
could. Despite twoDead
Island games stinking
out the decomposing joint, the
studio’s parkour-based zombie sleeper
hit was so successful, it spawned
the sprawlingThe FollowingDLC. The
good news? The actual sequel is even
more ambitious.
Set 15 years after the original,
Dying Light 2’s all-new decaying city
has something of a plague-ridden
Parisian vibe. The game is also aiming
to deliver an experience defined by
choice and consequence.
The world around your free-running
survivor constantly changes
depending on your decisions. ForT
example, you can side with black
market scoundrels to limit the supply
of water and make a fat profit from it,
or choose to team up with a vigilante
force, who keep free water fountains
filled so that the people (including you)
can drink and heal.
One of the most pleasing things we
know about Dying Light 2 is that the
esteemed Chris Avellone, the famed
writer known for his work on RPGs from
Divinity: Original Sin 2 to Fallout: New
Vegas, is acting as narrative director
on the game. So we can expect Dying
Light 2’s story to be a good deal more
ambitious than the first game.
With double the parkour and combat
moves, and the team aiming to deliver
4K/60fps on Xbox One X, our delicious
braaaaains can’t wait. Qrom some of the key
mindsbehindARK:
Survival Evolvedcomes
another ultra-ambitious
MMO. This time though,
your online explorer has to contend
with pesky pirates, not a peckish
T- Rex. The game’s brand of high seas
hijinx recently hit Steam Early access,
with various tech troubles seeing the
buccaneer endure choppy tides.
Atlas rolls out onto Xbox Game
Preview soon, so let’s hope those PC
performance woes are cast aside
before then. If the Xbox version arrives
in ship-shape, there’s much to look
forward to. Grapeshot promises servers
will eventually be able to support
40,000 players, as crews from all over
the world build ships, hunt for buried
treasure, erect forts, and battle. With
procedurally generated maps to dive
for, legendary mystical beasts to track,
and an ‘Army of the Damned’ to
contend with, Sea Of Thieves could
soon have a swashbuckling rival. QETAEARLY 2019PUBLISHERGRAPESHOT GAMESDEVELOPERGRAPESHOT GAMES
PIRACY AND EXPLORATION IN AN AMBITIOUS MMO
Atlas
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ABOVE Whale meat
again? Don’t know
where, don’t know
when...
LEFTIt’s not
just pirates
you’ll be
fighting.More Xbox news at gamesradar.com/oxm THE OFFICIAL XBOX MAGAZINE 0352019 PREVIEW