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If you’re familiar with the movie, you know exactly what I’m talking about. Most impressive hands down is the technology used to render hundreds of zombies all rushing at once. Even though that’s the majority of the game design, the swarm sections never got tiresome as it was always a challenge, especially on the harder difficulties. Get to a waypoint, fight some zombies, get to next checkpoint, hunker down as a swarm attacks you, get to next checkpoint and survive the final swarm of hundreds of zombies that rush you.
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Complete the campaign with a character and you’ll unlock a small clip of their backstory.Įach episode has its own special moments and challenges, though generally the gameplay won’t change from beginning to end. Each campaign has its own unique characters to choose from, though they make no difference gameplay wise. You’ll venture across different areas of the world, from Moscow to New York, Jerusalem and Tokyo. Each of the four campaigns have their own secluded stories, broken into 3 smaller chapters (though Episode 4 only had 2 chapters). While I would normally hold this against a game, it simply works here because you’re coming to kill swarms of zombies nothing more, nothing less. While I enjoyed the smaller bite sized campaigns compared to one lengthy one, there was no overarching storyline to piece it all together, though if there was, I somehow completely missed it. Just like in the film, humanity is on the verge of being wiped out from the undead, so you need to do whatever required to survive.
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Sure, it’s got a movie license tied to it, and it’s changed from first person to third, yet somehow, it works great.īased on the movie universe, you don’t recreate the movie, nor get to see or play as Brad Pitt, but instead, play through four separate mini campaigns. And I know what you’re thinking: Yet another zombie game? I know, I thought that fad died out too (see what I did there?) but fans have been begging Valve for a new Left 4 Dead, and since they’re unable to produce it, developers Saber Interactive have taken their own spin on the gameplay formula. Sure, the odds aren’t great, but there is the odd exception to the rule, and I’m excited to report that World War Z belongs to that 0.1% category.īased on the 2013 movie with the same name, World War Z is a four player cooperative adventure that will have you fighting for your lives against hundreds of zombies. There is that 0.1% chance though that just because it has a movie license tied to its name, that maybe it’ll actually be a decent game as well, and not just a quick money grab. One of these things though, with about 99.9% certainty, is that movie videogames are going to be terrible. There are very few things that are certain in life.