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First-person survival horror gameOutlastgrabbed our attentionrecently with a short teaser video which showed its asylum setting and emphasis on the “survival” part of the genre. Today, as promised, there’s a four-minute trailer that’s more cohesive.

While this is real-time, in-engine footage, it’s taken from a tech demo and should be treated as such. Hopefully, this is more proof of concept than literal vision of what’s to come. While the graphics themselves are perfectly fine, and I think there’s a lot of potential from what we know aboutOutlastso far, developer Red Barrels has some serious work ahead.

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Granted, the game isn’t due out until next year, so there’s time. But as we saw earlier with the newAmnesia: A Machine for Pigstrailer, the competition is stepping it up.

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