Boomers Cohere, but story is nil
For those who don’t know. I am not an online multiplayer type. Sorry. If this insults you, so long, there are better reviewers who have much kinder things to say about the online experience.
The single player game is really a mash of situational survival moments and nothing more. There is no character development. No reason for why the four characters are together. No reason for why or how they four episodes occur. No connectivity. No point. In fact it seems that the four ‘stories’ are simply vignettes of possible scenarios for the four survivors to, well, survive. The fact that they are not connected in a ‘story’ mode or attached to the campaign. Although the word ‘campaign’ is used in the single player, it’s far from a unified meaningful serious of episodes connecting the story into a cohesive whole.
This doesn’t mean that the game isn’t fun, when you get to blow away wave after wave of freakin’ zombies. In fact the scare factor in moments of the game is quite appealing. Especially the waves of running zombies intent on eating the survivors. But there are problems. The special zombies tend to be triggered to attack you only. The hunters for example would be slinking in the bush, or behind a corner and just as I was turned into a position to attack they were already leaping onto me, and I had to wait for rescue. No way to shake them off, all I could do was wait. It wasn’t long of course, but the fact that there was little I could do got frustrating. The boomer’s were even worse. I could hear them but they always managed to be right next to me while one of the other survivors exploded them. I spent most of my time when the special monster’s where in the picture just trying to stay healthy enough to even get my gun into play.
And yes, I did play it online once and it was the same game, only four people running in different directions, trying to accomplish different objectives and not really caring what happens to the others. And when one goes down it’s nearly impossible to get back to them to save them. I suppose though if you play a lot and get accustomed to the people on the team it would be a pretty good game experience.
