Indeed, it was that very dissonance between the game description and the game itself that led Valve to pull The War Z from Steam in the first place.

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Are we actually reading an early game description before a host of changes were made to the final product?

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This is a description of the game in the present, neither after nor before the events that transpire in the first Dark Souls.

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