Undead Labs’ studio head Philip Holt has defined the six-year hole between when State of Decay 3 was introduced and its re-reveal this previous week.
Holt advised Sunny Games that State of Decay 3’s announcement trailer from 2020 was not truly of the sport. “There actually wasn’t a recreation or recreation crew once we have been engaged on that trailer, like, it was so early,” he stated, including that solely about 4 or 5 folks have been engaged on the sport then.
“The recreation was in a Phrase doc,” he added, as reported by GamesRadar.
Undead Labs did not go completely darkish after asserting State of Decay 3 in 2020, as the sport obtained one other trailer in 2024, however once more, it was a cinematic trailer and did not have gameplay. One other high-profile recreation, The Witcher 4, had a trailer that followers initially thought was the sport, however was truly a tech demo.
It’s a pretty widespread apply for builders to announce video games very, very early with CGI footage for the aim of recruiting workers, and that appears to be what Undead Labs did with State of Decay 3. Holt went on to level out that the announcement trailer for State of Decay 3 was made by the visible results studio Blur and that the footage was all pre-rendered and never of the sport itself.
The trailer, he stated, represented a “idea” or what the studio thought “may be cool” to discover as concepts in State of Decay 3, versus a illustration of what the studio was truly making.
“As we have had an opportunity to construct a crew and get happening the sport, a few of these parts I believe are gonna persist within the recreation that we ship,” he stated.
Not all the pieces within the trailer will likely be within the recreation, although. Holt confirmed that the “zombie animals” that confirmed up within the trailer, together with the zombified deer, won’t be within the full recreation.
State of Decay 3 just lately resurfaced out of nowhere, with Undead Labs additionally asserting an upcoming alpha take a look at for the zombie recreation. The recreation’s alpha begins in Could, however the full recreation does not have a launch date but. Will probably be the primary new recreation within the collection since 2018’s State of Decay 2, and it is coming to Xbox Collection X|S and PC.