During the last few decades zombies have stretch like a plague through pop culture and along with them have come a slew of games seeking to cash in on the craze. The War Z is a post-apocalyptic survival simulator that appears to get on board the money train of the present trend by putting you smack-dab in the midst of a zombie outbreak. Players must learn to adapt and continue living by foraging for nourishment and weaponry to fend off the undead millions and other survivors.
Sadly, The War Z offers up simply a painfully executed parody of what a survival games should be. It efforts to ride the waves of success that popular ArmA II mod, DayZ has had yet instead seems to take its shortcomings and enhance them into an experience that is dull at its best and annoying at its worst.
As well as die a lot I did, both fairly and in staggeringly unfair circumstances. My demises so far include, but are not restricted to, being swiped to death by a zombie in stilted, tedious melee combat (sudden, but anticipated), being shot by bandit people (not expected, but it's how this world works), walking down a slope and dying even though it wasn't steep (I swore), being shot right away on spawn by an unseen hacker (I made sure his mother was soundly cursed along with the developers hexed for allowing it), getting resurrected amidst inescapable zombies and dying before my character model was fully loaded (I stop for an hour and went for a walk to unwind), and being tracked by a hacker and shot (keyboard remarkable, mouse-breaking apoplexy). By my count, there are way more opportunites to die unfairly compared to fairly.
I quickly mentioned the item buying system before hand that is yet another example of Hammerpoint’s shoddy business techniques. The play costs about $15 in the Steam store, good enough however, Hammerpoint had the audacity to add a product store that costs money to use. Really? A pay to win system in a spend to play game! It’s a obvious cash grab and rip off and an utter disgrace.
Personality designs are blocky and there’s not much sort amongst the almost pointless character classes. Animations are really limited and in some cases choppy. Nonetheless, every once and a while you may be reminded of Rick as well as the other survivors traversing through the arena of The Walking Dead when you try to survive, but you’ll discover these brief glimpses couple of and short lived as you’re more than likely to be shot in the head while taking in the landscapes.
