some more information from mr nickollsVIDEO some spoilers from the game regarding gameplay here vSpoiler, click to toggle visibilty
it has come to my attention that several people are complaining about a bunch of stuff that we've seen in the trailers and are making alot of assumptions despite being shown otherwise in the leaks. here: 1.Terence Rotolo not being contacted to voice Frank West again. 2.The timer is gone from missions 3.you don't escort survivors anymore (they just run away when you save them) 4.your health automatically regenerates 5.you get the overpowered exo-suit from the start 6.combo weapons are being given out like candy now. the first 1 is understandable people really love Rotolo he has been part of the character for almost all the instalments of the series. as for the timer, its back on coop, and its still 4 months away from release so there might as well be an update for a nightmare mode in a near future I hope. the third one, its an assumption about just the first survivor you save in the demo which doesn't even represent what the whole game will be around that mechanic,I believe its gonna be like dead rising 3 were you scort people and some others are more independent. the 4th one...I am skeptical about this as well but as for the leaks I've seen theres really alot of enemies that will fuck you up HARD so I don't personally see this as a bad thing. 5. thats another assumption they got from the demo in which there were several military equipments around at that certain location, they did it to show the new mechanics and weapons again, it wasn't really shown in the leaks but I'm sure as well you're not going to get an exosuit from the start ,the guys at vancouver aren't naive to do that (except for excluding TJ) as far as I've seen, the mall is really really big and the city is even more so. 6.they kinda are, as long as you get the blueprints like in every dead rising game you choose which weapon you use, they aren't forcing people to use the new mechanics, they made the game with the normal weapons as well. TL;DR people are just asuming the game is going to fail without playing it and for cheer anger that TJ Rotolo isn't there which saddens me as well.