This review contains spoilers
I remember watching gameplay of this game when I was a kid and thinking to myself, 'Wow! I'm gonna play this in the future, I won't even finish watching this video so I don't get spoiled!' I finally did... and was quite underwhelmed. The game starts off good but gets tedious really fast.
The concept of this game is awesome; it's pretty much what every person thinks of when wondering about how a 'Realistic Zombie Survival Game' would look like. Creating a base, managing resources, scavenging, running out of resources in your area and having to move out. However, the ideas ended up being better as ideas, not reality.
My main grievance of the game is the story missions being locked behind an insanely long amount of time, which leads you to have nothing to do besides repetitive side-missions and collecting resources. You end up spending A LOT of time doing the same boring back and forth or just sitting still, waiting for the next mission to pop up.
But here's the thing, this downtime doing nothing should be the moment where the base management part of the game becomes the highlight. However, in my experience, this part of the game was nothing more than building stations inside your base, upgrading some of them ONCE and... that's it. I never had to think about managing resources and never came close to running out of anything. I also never felt like building bases, upgrading stations, and having more people join the base ever mattered. In my experience, if this whole part of the game was taken out, it would still be played the same way.
I finished the story looking forward to seeing what would happen... you escape. That's it, nothing that matters happened besides that at all.
I got really bored of the game cycle, so when I saw that the two DLCs "Afterlife" and "Breakdown" were pretty much more of the same, I just decided to move on. Maybe I'll try them in the future.
The concept of this game is awesome; it's pretty much what every person thinks of when wondering about how a 'Realistic Zombie Survival Game' would look like. Creating a base, managing resources, scavenging, running out of resources in your area and having to move out. However, the ideas ended up being better as ideas, not reality.
My main grievance of the game is the story missions being locked behind an insanely long amount of time, which leads you to have nothing to do besides repetitive side-missions and collecting resources. You end up spending A LOT of time doing the same boring back and forth or just sitting still, waiting for the next mission to pop up.
But here's the thing, this downtime doing nothing should be the moment where the base management part of the game becomes the highlight. However, in my experience, this part of the game was nothing more than building stations inside your base, upgrading some of them ONCE and... that's it. I never had to think about managing resources and never came close to running out of anything. I also never felt like building bases, upgrading stations, and having more people join the base ever mattered. In my experience, if this whole part of the game was taken out, it would still be played the same way.
I finished the story looking forward to seeing what would happen... you escape. That's it, nothing that matters happened besides that at all.
I got really bored of the game cycle, so when I saw that the two DLCs "Afterlife" and "Breakdown" were pretty much more of the same, I just decided to move on. Maybe I'll try them in the future.
Steam
Got this during the Halloween sale and I absolutely love it. I've been out of the zombie craze for a while, loved them, then got really really tired of them. This game is a great refresher though. The scavenging and survival aspects I've always wanted in a zombie game are done near perfectly here, from outposts to basebuilding, to resource management, handling a sim of different survivors. I love it. Anyone into the idea of an apocalypse sim where you manage survivors, bases, resources, and etc should really check this game out.
really enjoyed this game, gameplay was great but verged on tedious. The permadeath aspect is unique and makes for interesting story that isnt centered zround one character. One gripe is the last third of the game slows down, almost as if you catch up with the tasks it has to offer and you end up waiting around for the next story mission to be called in. Lots of fun though, looking forward to playing SoD 2.
Buen concepto, mediocremente ejecutado. Realmente me gusta lo que se puede desarrollar en base a esto y por eso estoy bastante interesado en la secuela. La progresión y la ambientación son la clave.
I have a soft spot for this wonderful indie game. It was the first game I ever followed the development of, and I recently replayed it. It's still fun! It's very dated and clearly low budget but considering all of that, it still plays very nice and the combat is still very fun yet at times challenging.
As a 14 year old who desperately wanted to play DayZ Mod but didn't own a PC, this was a great substitute and I loved it.
As a 14 year old who desperately wanted to play DayZ Mod but didn't own a PC, this was a great substitute and I loved it.
Unironically a top 3 zombie game for me, not because its has a great story or anything it was just so addicting. It was pretty much the closest thing I had to Day Z at the time, and it brought some good memories despite not being the best game ever.
I thought it was a refreshing entry in the very saturated zombie genre.
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Um otimo jogo a principio, enfrenta algumas quedas de fps e uma gama de missões um pouco repetitivas, mas um bom jogo!
I'm only 30 minutes in but the age on this game is SHOWING. Just not gripping me. Was just thrown in. Plan to pick this back up when I am done with some others on the backlog.
Um bom jogo um pouco mais difícil que sua sequência
The graphics and combat hasn’t aged tremendously well, but the game as a whole still holds up and is as addicting as it was back in the day. As a younger teen with no PC, the original on the 360 gave me that OG DayZ-esque feel I so badly wanted, and I’ll always have a soft spot for this game for that. Had a couple of achievements glitch and I had to redo them, and the game itself is a bit buggy at times as well, but it’s still a thrilling time.
Foi um excelente game na época do seu jogo original e trouxe mecânicas totalmente novas para jogos do gênero, porém ao joga-lo novamente em sua versão para Xbox One já sinto como está datado mas ainda assim não deixa de ser um ótimo jogo. Acredito que daria um bom remake se fosse reformulado para um jogo de nova geração.
Decent enough, got very repetitive though. Bland world. Hopefully 2 is more fun onto that next.
Something feels inherently off about depicting zombies as an unsolvable problem that you can at best cope with while also making you capable of solving that problem at a rate of hundreds per day. It does not help that your solutions are all so shallow.
It's probably not intentional but it feels very fitting that being within sprinting distance of a car is the ultimate solution to every problem.
It's probably not intentional but it feels very fitting that being within sprinting distance of a car is the ultimate solution to every problem.