Sony Online Entertainment has announced their H1Z1 open-world zombie survivor will be joining the shuffling Early Access hordes on Steam early next year. It will be available from January 15th.
The post-apocalyptic MMO will be sold for $19.99, revealed SOE President John Smedley. It’s a ”really fun game, but it’s early.” He warns off those expected something that’s near-finished.
Anyone expecting H1Z1 to topple DayZ on its first day is also told to expect disappointment. ”We’ll get asked that question a lot and I wanted to be up front about it. We’re not as feature rich and they have a lot of really cool stuff we just don’t have yet. That being said, we’re also a different game,” he said.
”We’re an MMO and our goals are to create a large scale world that gives you the incredible feeling of being a survivor in a zombie apocalypse.”
”We’ll be starting out with roughly 64k square Kilometers, but we plan to grow it right away.. and over time create our virtual version of the US post apocalypse. Look for us to start adding land right away post launch.” The Early Access launch will offer to versions of H1Z1, revealed Smedley on Reddit.
”The basic early access sku for $19.99 - which will let you into the game and have a great time, and a more expensive one which we’ll announce here shortly. The difference between the two will be things like access to some of our different game mode servers (which you can get access to by purchasing tickets or earning them as well) and other specifics we’ll be outlining soon.”
H1Z1 releases on PC through Steam Early Access January 15th, 2015.
