Instead of the usual rolls and dashes, it's akin to a beautifully animated pub brawl with a degree of messiness to the melee.

Peppered throughout the presentation I saw Jacob rough up plenty of baddies with his stun baton, dodging hits less like you would in, say, a Souls game, and more like a boxer, as he dropped his shoulders and arched his head just out of reach. 'They submit an idea, Glenn reviews it and if he thinks 'that's really good', it'll go into the game' And we still run that to this day, so anyone can contribute to it from across the entire company,' he says. 'We actually ran a JIRA board, where it comes up with task ideas for horror and for scare moments. I ask James whether other key bits of the game have sprung from lightbulb moments and he tells me how director Glenn Schofield is open to ideas from anywhere in the studio. There is a 'standard mutation' if you've not lopped off an arm or a leg, but 'the mutations are as different as the dismemberment.' Depending on how you've altered the enemy through dismemberment, will depend on how they regrow,' James explains.

'So, you notice in the presentation, I shoot off a guy's arm or head and they grow that back. Because I think if you run a level of fear all the time, you just get people who are like, 'I just can't finish this.''Įnemies don't always mutate random bits of their bodies, either, which ties into the whole 'reverse dismemberment' thing. It was genius.' 'We wanted to have that kind of playfulness sometimes.

'And then, like, it's so cool! So, we've got all of the attachments in the body that we were using for dismemberment, so then we can grow new meshes from those detached areas. I can see in James' sudden outpouring of enthusiasm how the idea could spiral into a fully-fledged system back in the game's development. Mutations are a 'mechanic that makes sense to the virus', James tells me, and it was a feature first conceived by one of their core engineers in Spain who thought, 'Well, why can't I just reverse dismemberment?'. And it's definitely a neat way of introducing an element of tension to any zombie you think you've mastered. It's a frightening thing, seeing your regular shambling fella morph into a diseased coral reef if you're not quick enough on the trigger. Every baddy you battle holds the possibility of mutating into a deadlier version of themselves if you don't 'shoot the tentacles' - as we saw scrawled in blood over a token dead dude slumped against a wall - fast enough. One of the key new features shown off during the new gameplay presentation was the mutations, or rather, the Biophages (the game's fancy word for horrible zombies) penchant to suddenly erupt a mass of writhing tentacles from any part of their body.

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