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# Zombies. Seattle. 1986. Deadlight is Walking Dead for the pre-Cobain era.
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/zombies-seattle-1986-deadlight-walking-dead-pre-cobain-era/
- Published: 2012-06-06T20:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:00:23.000Z
- Description: Video Deadlight is a post-zombiepocalypse 2D platformer set in Seattle, Washington circa 1986. Players take on the role of survival-hardened protagonist Randall Wayne as he navigates a wasteland of dilapidated buildings rendered in rotting earth tones and shadowy silhouettes. Similar to the Xbox Liv
- Author: Henry Crouch
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

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*Deadlight* is a post-zombiepocalypse 2D platformer set in Seattle, Washington circa 1986\. Players take on the role of survival-hardened protagonist Randall Wayne as he navigates a wasteland of dilapidated buildings rendered in rotting earth tones and shadowy silhouettes. Similar to the Xbox Live Arcade classic *Shadow Complex*, perspective in *Deadlight* is fixed on a side-scrolling plane within a 3D world including animated back- and foregrounds that create a dynamic play between 2D and 3D. Tequila Works developers, however, took extra care to clarify that Deadlight isn’t simply a re-hashing of Shadow Complex or the like:

“We didn’t want to make just another *Metroidvania* game,” says Niklas Wennersten, a technical artist for Deadlight.

Indeed, the game stands apart through a blending of classic cinematic-platformer tropes, like those established by classics *Flashback* or *Another World*, with survival-horror gameplay elements like minimal ammo, environmental puzzles and a restrictive stamina meter. *Deadlight* may well be the first “survival-horror platformer” to exist, but what makes for an intriguing zombie game is its eschewal of excessive gore for a sparse and haunting atmosphere. *Deadlight* is slated for release on Xbox Live Arcade this summer.