Watch over 35 minutes of footage for Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden

by Zack Reese on 01 April, 2018

Earlier this week, Funcom revealed the first footage for Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, and boy, does it look a lot like Firaxis' XCOM series - in a good way.

For those unaware, Mutant Year Zero is a post-apocalyptic tactical adventure game featuring anthropomorphic animals, robots, and mutated humans. Here's a quick rundown of the features via Funcom:

TACTICAL COMBAT: Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is the ultimate fix for your tactical strategy addiction. Dive into a deep, turn-based, tactical combat system inspired by the XCOM games.

EXPLORE A POST-HUMAN EARTH: Journey through a post-human world of abandoned cities, crumbling highways, and overgrown countryside. Check back at the Ark, a neon-bathed oasis of ill repute and questionable characters, to restock your supplies and plan out your next adventure.

CONTROL A TEAM OF MUTANTS: A duck with an attitude problem and a boar with anger issues; these aren’t your typical heroes. Get to know Dux, Bormin, Selma, and many other characters each with their own unique personality and deranged perspective on the world and their situation.

MASTER THE STEALTHY APPROACH: Sneak through shadows to avoid conflict or to catch enemies unaware. Real-time stealth allows you full control of approach: sneak into an enemy camp, position the team of Mutants to your advantage, and gain the element of surprise.

UNLOCK MUTATIONS: Unlock new mutations and abilities for your Mutants, such as Selma’s Stoneskin, Bormin’s Charge, and Dux‘ uncanny ability to sneak into a camp full of enemies unnoticed, despite being a 4-foot tall walking, talking duck with a crossbow.

DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS: Use the environment to your advantage. Stay out of floodlights, hide from line of sight, or just blast down fully destructible walls and buildings and wreak utter havoc.

LOOT, LOOT EVERYWHERE: From makeshift slingshots to high-powered rifles and top hats to police vests, make sure you equip your Mutants for the dangers ahead. Nothing says post-human quite like a mutated boar in spiked metal armor charging at you with a blunderbuss in his hands.

As you can see from the combat footage along, a lot of it appears to feature short skirmishes, some exploration, and plenty of good old-fashioned character development. There's even some interaction back at the base for good measure.

Take a look at the first footage of the gameplay below:

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is set to be released for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC sometime later this year.