I fully understand the answer to "why is Sony pushing this shit so hard?" is probably "because all their big releases are being held back to launch closer to the PS5 next year" but boy do i not get why theres a small number of people i see monumentally excited for what looks like the blandest thing ever. This looks like a game that someone on a show like Law and Order who's writing an episode about 'the evil gamers of today!' would make up if they couldnt get the rights to use an actual game.
They put out some new info today and thus far the game seems to be sold with the following points:
-Its an open world zombie game with survival crafting elements. In 2019
-At night the zombies get stronger
-To break up the monotony there are super zombies like a screamer, a muscular charging guy, a vomit spitter and exploding fat guy
-You need to scavenge to build shit that constantly breaks from use over time
-Have not shown any story hooks but just flashback backstory which is always a massive warning sign for an open world game
-Very rudimentary upgrade tree
-Human bad guys are a pagan religious cult that worships the zombies, shut up dont think about it
-pre order bonuses and fun pay minibuys with rumblings of a season pass
-Clear camps of human enemy's and zombie nests across the map, no this isn't a ubisoft title why do you ask
-Quicktime events for 'cinematic action'.
and so on.
This game kind of fascinates me and its hard to put my finger on why exactly. Sony is pushing this like their next Horizon Zero Dawn or The Last of Us but it looks like a prettier State of Decay 2 or just a frankensteins monster of all the gaming fads of 2008-2011 combined to make something that seems like its travelled through time and while it looks technically sound and not a burning trash fire like anthem or something its got so little buzz it looks like the first chance at a none scandal based AAA flop in a while.
So does anyone actually care about this game? or is this just a lot of marketing for another game like last autumns Call of Cthulu that got tons of buzz and marketing but you probably forgot it existed before i mentioned it.