Go and Grab Grandpa Willie’s Shotgun! ‘Dying Light’ Has Arrived

As we know, free-running and parkour is a dangerous business. It takes a special kind of chutzpah to vault over ledges on top of the Chrysler Building, just to get Grandma's attention and a dickish, death-defying selfie for your Instagram. But you'd need balls of the steeliest steel to do so in the midst of a zombie apocalypse.

And that's Dying Light's whole schtick. Go anywhere, climb anything is the name of the game. They're not kidding.

The game's world is one big playground, albeit the kind with festering-ass zombiesamundo. During the day, you cruise about as you please, forging improvised weapons in a Dead Rising sort of way and scavenging for supplies. The undead population are a little easier to manage during daylight hours, and you can beat on groups (well, small groups) of them as you encounter them. It's pretty damn sadistically fun to do so, too, with the deliciously violent combat mechanics we have here.

But at night, the tables turn. You'd better believe that you'll be hauling ass to a safehouse. The whole setup is nothing new to the zombie survival genre, but Dying Light's more athletic approach adds a welcome air of difference nonetheless. Check it out in action below, with the release trailer fresh from our buddies at GameSpot.