The only real issue plaguing this game might be one of audience. This is never going to be a good looking game compared to the likes of Halo, but the commitment to a survival game where main characters can die, and the game keeps going, is a testament to the originality of the title.
Thankfully, what’s also retained is the survivalist atmosphere of the original game, as well as all the DLC that came out subsequent to the game’s release. Those are all still in place, the same as in the original Xbox 360 version. So even though the graphics are crisper and the draw distances are better, this doesn’t fix the limited animations, frequent clipping of enemies through walls, or the unpolished voice acting and stilted cut scenes. Despite its use of CryEngine 3 for its graphics, this isn’t a looker of a game manpower and budgetary limitations are evident throughout. Players need to keep in mind that this wasn’t a big AAA title with a huge budget. It hasn’t gotten a similar bump in framerate, but the open world nature of the game pretty much killed any chances of 60 frames per second. In other words, it really is more about the survival than the horror.Īs you might expect from a remaster, State of Decay has gotten an upgrade to the world of 1080p. It’s not about killing zombies, so much as it is forging alliances, securing supplies, and reinforcing compounds in order to endure the zombie apocalypse on a daily basis. It’s a third person survival horror, but if you were expecting Resident Evil, or Dead Rising, you’re in for a surprise. As Marcus Campbell, an athletic store clerk out on a camping trip, players run head on into a classic “something-something of the Dead” zombie apocalypse, straight out of a George Romero film. The original State of Decay was a surprisingly original and playable title from a small studio headed by ex-Blizzard refugees, and it managed to garner a decent following for itself with its emphasis more on survival than action. Zombies games are a dime a dozen in recent years, but how many of them let you have a truly Walking Dead or Romero-esque experience of actually experiencing the day-to-day struggle for survival in a zombie apocalypse? State of Decay, which came out in 2013 for the Xbox 360, is one of the few games that put just as much emphasis on scavenging and security as it did on fighting zombies, and now it’s back on its younger, more powerful brother, the Xbox One.Įven though it doesn’t say so anywhere in the title, this is basically one of those HD+ remasters we’ve been seeing so much from the last generation to this one.
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