The game, although I knew its theme, the cover never caught my interest, it wasn't much discussed and I considered it "meh".
With the purchase of the play5 about 2 months ago and after finishing The Last of Us, I was looking for another survival zombie game to play. My conclusions about the version I'm playing on March 23, before I don't know what bugs were happening, are as follows:
The game is AWESOME.. I didn't expect it to be this good.
The positives:
- A big story that goes slowly but correctly. It doesn't have a central story from what I understand, but 1-2 parallel stories. I'm around 35 hours in and I'm about 55% through the game, from what I've seen in videos on YouTube.
- The post-apocalyptic atmosphere is very well made, the overall atmosphere with abandoned cars and ruins reminds me a lot of The Walking Dead. Essentially, it's a Walking Dead game in terms of style.
- The environment, landscapes, and weather (rain, snow, fog) are FLAWLESS for me. The weather phenomena are very well made, as well as the landscapes of Oregon with forests and mountains are incredible.
- A huge open-world map with fast travel points that help you a lot, but in such points where you definitely need to drive, it's a delight.
- A pretty nice combat system with a well-made AI. As the game progresses and you level up your skills, the enemies become "smarter" and talk to each other for organized attacks, or the zombies become smarter and try to avoid you when you aim at them, climb, open doors, etc.
- A wide variety of skill trees and weapons.
- A variety of protagonists and characters.
- AMAZING soundtrack, nice American rock that is the icing on the cake with this style of a mechanic-America countryside.
- A very good idea to be safer in the morning while not so much at night. Nice change of music when approaching danger.
The negatives:
- The main thing for me is that you can't change the difficulty level. Even though I started on hard, it seems quite easy to me and if you don't encounter a horde, you're not in danger. I would like to increase the difficulty one level up to survivor, for example, or as it is. The humans don't do much damage and you can heal, the zombies do enough damage and up to 3-4 are manageable, but if you encounter a horde, you have to be like a lobster and it's still difficult.
- Another negative is that it doesn't give you a skill or movement to shoot the zombies when they are very close. On the contrary, if they are too close, the weapons are useless and you need melee.
- Another negative that confuses you is the 3D sound, where you hear zombie screams but you can't tell if they are coming from the right, left, back, or front and you have to search... it confuses you a lot because the sound is very bad, they haven't set up where it's coming from properly.
- There are some points on rocks or high paths where it's the classic problem that the older generation had, where even though it's not very high or steep, you wonder why it doesn't go up that slope or climb the rock and you have to go around. It does not have flexibility in this aspect... you will see points that deceive you and we are used to with vehicles to climb from there, but in days gone you hit an invisible wall.
-In 30 hours, only 1-2 bugs when I crashed into a tree with the bike.
-Another main thing is that 80% of the game is played with the same weapons because they are not unlocked quickly. Personally, I play a lot with the crossbow because you always have arrows since you craft them from trees, etc.
Overall, the game is worth every euro, the few negatives are mostly my personal opinion and may not apply to everyone. Obviously, the game does not have the story of The Last of Us, nor is the mood as serious. It is more fun to play and not as serious, but it is very respectable.
I highly recommend it as it is a gem and I rank it high, having played many single-player games from the PS1-PS2-PS3-PC era