The survival game The Day Before has unveiled a new trailer, but it leaves players doubting the graphical quality of the highly anticipated title.
What game is it about? The Day Before is a survival game set to release on Steam on March 1, 2023, that has you fighting for survival during a zombie apocalypse.
An important component of The Day Before is also PvP. In addition to fighting for survival against zombies, battles against other players will play a significant role.
The Day Before is on Steam as the most wished-for multiplayer game. No other multiplayer title has made it into players’ wish lists as often. Overall, the survival game ranks second, with only the Harry Potter game Hogwarts Legacy, which only offers a single-player mode, being anticipated more.
The Day Before is also part of our list of 5 extremely ambitious multiplayer games set to be released in 2023.
What kind of trailer is this? The new trailer for The Day Before was released in cooperation with graphics card manufacturer Nvidia and shows what gameplay looks like in 4K resolution with ray tracing enabled.
Overall, the trailer lasts just under a minute and showcases not only some images of the map but also battles against zombies.
“Your first trailer looked like TLOU2, but now it looks like State of Decay 2”
Why are players doubting the game? In the comments on YouTube, opinions are sharply divided:
- Some find that the game and its graphics look great.
- Others say that the title looked better in old trailers and suspect that The Day Before has received a graphical downgrade.
Particularly the faction that suspects a downgrade is strongly represented in the comment section. One user writes that he realized in the early trailers that this could not be the final graphics and that the finished game would ultimately look worse.
In general, many have noticed that the graphics have significantly deteriorated compared to previous trailers.
- CheesyX2: “Now that the game is approaching release, it suddenly looks much, much worse than the old ‘gameplay reveal trailers’ we saw a year or two ago, what a surprise…”
- dante2804: “They probably fear legal issues in the future. Everyone knew that the game would not look like this upon release, and the people who are disappointed should have known better.”
- arvinjay336: “Your first trailer looked like TLOU2, but now [the game The Day Before] looks like State of Decay 2.”
Additionally, the report from May 2022 has been sharply criticized, in which the developers stated that the release of The Day Before has been postponed because they wanted to release it directly in Unreal Engine 5 (UE5).
However, the commentators on YouTube do not believe that the presented gameplay looks like it was made in the new engine. The user peyotechild says: “When they said they would remake it in UE5, I expected better graphics than those of the PS4.”
If you want to form your own opinion on whether a graphical downgrade is noticeable in the new trailer, you can see a 13-minute gameplay of the zombie MMO The Day Before on MeinMMO.
