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No coddling, no mercy

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This screenshot provided by Bohemia Interactive shows "DayZ," a post-apocalyptic survival game that takes place in the Russian countryside. Since its release earlier this year, the mod has garnered more than a million players. Courtesy of Bohemia Interactive
By Sam Laney
Published: November 3, 2012

You come to life on a deserted shore. No map, no gun — no scrap of anything that might tell you who you are or where you came from.

After wandering for a time, you might find a road. Should you follow it? There’s strange writing on the signs you pass — Russian, perhaps? You see a small village in the distance. Meandering shapes dither between the cottages, walking with little to no direction. As you walk a little closer, bleak, you hear rhythmic percussion. Now you can see faces — they look hungry, and they’re coming full-bore.

 
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Brian Bowers is Stars and Stripes’ features editor and one of its video game reviewers. He joined the newspaper in 1992 in Germany, where he worked on the news desk and the city desk. He has a wife and three children, who are always eager to help him test games.

Sam Laney joined Stars and Stripes’ in 2007 as a copy/layout editor, and slowly convinced upper management that video games existed. Since then, he’s added game reviews and previews to his list of duties. When he’s not rocking newbies in “Left4Dead2,” he plays other games on PC and various Nintendo systems.