State of Decay 2

State of Decay 2 Review

After our experience with the game Sea of ​​​​Thieves, we get a new online multiplayer game from Microsoft for the Xbox One and PC platforms, but instead of venturing into the seas and oceans, we now have to venture into State of Swarms of zombies plague Decay 2, the sequel to the original survival game released on Xbox in 2013. Box 360 was admired by gamers despite criticism of various elements of the game, and now, after 5 years, we receive the second part of the game, and it’s time to give you a review to find out on which one ​​Level it is and whether this time it offers a better experience than the first game.

State of Decay 2’s main idea is a third-person action and survival game. The game offers an open world experience and an attempt to find everything that will help you survive in a world that has become full of zombies after the spread of a virus that led to this. When you start the game, you select a team of two people and control one of them while the Secret Service takes control. The artificial character is replaced by the other character and then the adventure begins with searching for supplies and weapons, building your own area and protecting it from swarms of zombies and of course meeting other characters who will join your party and try to survive together in this terrible world.

Technical Issues and Gameplay

You first set up your safe zone and now you have to search the game’s three maps with friends for anything that will be of use to you, be it with artificial intelligence or with players on the network in multiplayer mode. Although the game offers a cooperative mode, the technical issues that this mode presents will make you think twice about playing. Playing it is where we can start talking about the game on a technical level. The overall view of the game is not the best we can see on the Xbox and PC platforms, but that may be justified given the size of the connected world map, but what is completely unjustified are the countless technical problems in this game. Rewinding at the speed of images to prevent objects from disappearing and reappearing, the possibility of objects overlapping and even errors or glitches that sometimes force you to restart the game to complete the game.

The zombies’ designs are very limited, but they move smoothly, and the effects of punches and bullets on them also seem appropriate. The combat system is one of its strong elements as it provides a sense of satisfaction from killing crowds of zombies, especially when defending your safe area. But in general, this game cannot be praised for anything. The technical aspect, and there is no doubt that it will take a lot of updates to solve most of the problems that you will encounter due to the decline in image speed and other things. There is nothing worse than facing zombies and losing the ability to control the character due to the decreasing frame speed. It is enough to try to move the camera quickly to notice the fog in the game world to realize that the game is at the technical level. Not the best thing to see on these devices.

Repetitive Missions and Limited Options

The story mode cannot be called that, as you are largely limited to carrying out some very repetitive missions, aimed primarily at eliminating the main cell of zombies spread across the game map, and after that you either have to kill a lot of zombies in a particular area you defeat or protect your territory, and this is where we will start with many observations and disadvantages. In this game, the list of options is very poor in terms of arrangement and you will need time to get used to it and what’s worse is that the space to store things you have is very limited , and that kills a lot of the enthusiasm for collecting gear and trying to craft tools and other things, even when you’re facing zombies or trying to switch between characters, you’ll find that the main problem you’ll face is navigating between options in the Menus, which is annoying for this type of game.

What sets this game apart and the only positive point in it is that the game system is generally entertaining. Apart from all the problems you will face on a technical level and the menus of options and repetitive missions, it is a lot of fun trying to survive in a world full of zombies by working together with your team. You have to help team members or the game community or you can choose to be an enemy to everyone and only think about yourself and your team, but the unfortunate thing is that after spending a limited number of hours trying to survive, Without a good progression system or character or weapon development, it will become very boring and monotonous, and it will be like repeating the same game over and over again! Given that it is a multiplayer online game, there is no doubt that State of Decay 2 needed a lot of reforms before being released this way.

This game was reviewed using an Xbox One review copy provided by the publisher prior to the game’s release.