H1Z1 hands-on preview: Streamlined survival meets the zombie apocalypse

August 18, 2014

I've literally walked two feet in H1Z1, Sony Online Entertainment's upcoming survival-oriented multiplayer game, and I'm already under attack. Not, as I first assumed, by a zombie. No, instead it's a wolf jumping up and trying to tear my throat out. I laugh—the sort of panicked, strained giggle you might give out when there's a rabid wolf trying to rip you to shreds—and say to the SOE dev watching me, "There's a $%^&#ing wolf attacking me!" "Yeah, they tend to do that," he says, laughing. Seeing there'll be no help from those quarters, I do what any sane person would do—I punch the wolf. I punch it to death. "You know you have an axe too, right?" says the dev, after I've brutally beaten this wolf into the ground.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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