Surviving is primarily a matter of securing resources, and those resources are found in completely logical locations. Speaking of realism, State of Decay offers players the opportunity to roleplay survival after the zombpocalypse, and it accomplishes this better than any other game by letting players use their own common sense when trying to build a post-zombie society. Nearly every building is a fully-decorated location and not just an interesting backdrop, creating one of the most realistic-seeming video game locations ever. However, the work of Undead Labs never feels like an arbitrarily scaled-down facade.Īs the land transforms gradually from a deep, thick forest to wide amber fields, and then to a small town area, every part of the world is authentic and logically-placed. So often games are built using railroad-playset versions of cities-they look real enough at first glance, but can be walked through in a matter of minutes. State of Decay: Year One Survival Edition for the Xbox One faithfully presents all of these modes with just enough new content to keep this from feeling like a simple re-release, and gives players the total package for easy consumption.Įven though this is my third trip back to State of Decay's Trumbull Valley, I remain impressed by what an achievement the world is. The final addition, Lifeline, radically changed the focus of play while keeping the systems of gathering resources and building bases as the backdrop for a desperate rescue mission. Its first add-on, Breakdown, ramped up the difficulty level and challenged players to survive the endless spread of the living dead. The original State of Decay on Xbox 360 and PC was a good game which improved notably with each new update. WTF To unlock a character, I have to make another character gravely ill and then execute them? LOW Seeing my truck go flying because the physics engine decided the zombies I was plowing through were made of iron and anchored in concrete. HIGH Watching zombies congregate around a beacon that's leading a missile right to them.
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