Vi har længe hørt udviklere og studier udvise interesse i at afsløre spil tættere på projektets afslutning, men alligevel dukker der spil frem mange, mange år før de reelt set er færdige, eller før de overhovedet er begyndt.
Sådan forholder det sig med State of Decay 3. Spillet blev afsløret via en CG teaser i 2020, men dengang eksisterede spillet faktisk overhovedet ikke. I et interview med GamesRadar siger studiechef Philip Holt dette:
"So that trailer - there really wasn't a game or game team when we were working on that trailer, like, it was so early. You know, the game was in a Word document. It was really the very beginning of [the] software. The trailer was done by Blur, it was all pre-rendered, it represented, I think, a concept - our thoughts at the time of what might be cool to explore in State of Decay 3. And as we've had a chance to build a team and get going on the game, some of those elements I think are gonna persist in the game that we deliver and some of those things are just, like, we're not doing zombie animals."
Så ja, sådan blev det til at en ret essentiel del af traileren, zombie-dyr, faktisk slet ikke er en del af spillet. Du kan se den teaser herunder.