I still remember playing the original Into the Dead game when I was a kid and loving its eerie atmosphere and more or less helpful dog companion system. Knowing that this sequel had included a story mode, I was more than excited to play through it, it's a shame though that this game is nothing more than your typical greedy mobile game.

The game's star attraction is its story mode, which spans multiple chapters and is divided into small segments. And although it does start promising, by your 3rd run with the game, you'll already get bored with it. Story events only occur at the start and end of a run and most of the cutscenes don't provide any development on the plot or characters either. It mostly just consists of dull and generic dialogues, making for a pretty unsubstantial campaign.

It could have greatly benefited from environmental storytelling yet unfortunately, there's none to be seen here. Most of the areas you run through are just boring fields of grass with little to no distinction from each other.

Funnily enough, the bonus stories that the game provided have a far better story and more meaningful cutscenes than those seen in the main campaign itself.

Its gameplay doesn't fair much better either as it's littered with your typical mobile game greediness. Although at the start, most of the microtransactions felt more like an option, as you go further into the campaign, the powerful weapons that you own are rendered useless because they can barely kill regular zombies. The only way to remedy this is by upgrading your weapon using real-world money.

Killing zombies became such a difficult task that the game became frustrating to finish as a result, not helped by its lengthy but meatless campaign.

This is a game to avoid.

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Into the Dead 2 is an endless runner originating in the mobile gaming segment and for that, it does a decent job with its apocalyptic atmosphere and fun gameplay mechanics. If only it had been properly adapted for the Nintendo Switch, however, then perhaps the game would be something more worthy of the console's catalogue, rather than a visually enhanced version of a short experience for mobile devices. As such, it's also impossible to justify its selling price when the original version is free.
👉opencritic SUMMARY

Into the Dead 2 may not have the most original premise but the game does a decent job at creating a grim, apocalyptic environment around itself. Nevertheless, and despite fun mechanics, the game is too much alike its original version for mobile devices and simply does not live up to what a Nintendo Switch game should be.
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Was going into this game thinking it would be fun and simple like the first one when that one was a neat concept when it first came out. But I was wrong. Early in the game seemed fun. There was now a story with voice acting and cutscenes. But when that charm needed. Out came the micro transaction ads all over the screen. And then realized the dodging zombie gameplay was no longer fun. As I was just in it to get to the next cutscene for the story. Even that wasn’t worth it anymore. The charm quickly wore off after a few days. Leading me to delete the app.