There isn’t the “jankiness” that became a staple word in describing the first game, but motions are far from fluid. It’s a far sight improved from even the remastered State of Decay: Year One Survival Edition, but still presents scantily detailed character models and jarring animations. It’s more prudent to stick close anyways, and there’s a sizeable amount of slack before you’re zapped closer to the leader, but not being able to do things like split up and have a pair race back to defend the home base while the others continue ridding a house of an infestation limits the breadth of tactics the game could have offered. Also, players are tethered to the host and can’t roam the countryside at their leisure. However, only the host of the session reaps tangible rewards, with companions merely pocketing Influence to spend back in their game.

Taking on zombie hordes with three friends makes the task simpler, and goofy antics like playing songs with car doors and squatting on corpses adds some levity to the grim backdrop. Blood and Gore, Drug Reference, Intense Violence, Strong LanguageĬooperative play has been begged for since the first game, which finally sees daylight in the State of Decay 2, and in some respects it is a welcome addition.

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