After initially announcing the game all the way back in early April of this year, Sony Online Entertainment has today revealed that their post-apocalyptic zombie survival H1Z1 will finally be shuffling into Early Access come January 2015.

SOE president John Smedley revealed the news through Reddit, noting that "after a lot of hard work, we've decided to make the release date January 15th, 2015. This gives us just enough time to polish what we have and put out something we'll be proud of and hopefully you'll be excited to play."

Smedley continues, noting that those looking to grab Early Access should not expect a complete, bug-free game. "The goal here is to let you in early and help us mold it into a game you want to be a part of for quite a long time."

H1Z1's early access will launch with two SKU's, with the basic pack starting at $19.99 that will let you into the game. The more expensive one will be announced at a later date, but will presumably contain some exclusive items for those keen.

"Is H1Z1 going to be better than Day Z day 1? No it won't," Smedley reveals in the Reddit post. "We'll get asked that question a lot and I wanted to be up front about it. We're not as feature rich and they have a lot of really cool stuff we just don't have yet. That being said, we're also a different game. We're an MMO and our goals are to create a large scale world that gives you the incredible feeling of being a survivor in a zombie apocalypse."

You can catch a livestream of the game directly through Twitch or below.

Watch live video from h1z1 on www.twitch.tv