While the game’s default weapon has infinite ammo, it fires slowly, and you’ll have to take careful aim with your shots firing blindly won’t get you far. This carefully crafted feel extends to the player as well there’s a definite feeling of weightiness to your actions, and consequences will rear their ugly heads should you make rash decisions. It’s not so much a question of how you will get to the next checkpoint, but rather if you’ll be able to navigate the infested streets as you make your way through the game’s ten different missions. Overturned cars and blocked paths litter the city streets, giving the game a more claustrophobic and tighter feel. And while it stumbles more than once, it’s still a worthwhile experience for those who adopted a PlayStation 4 in its early months.ĭead Nation’s setting and landscape may be set in a post-apocalyptic world, but contrary to the open-world survivor games that happen to be infested with zombies, Dead Nation feels very deliberate in the way its levels are crafted. Rather, it sticks to what it does best: zombie killing. Unlike its contemporaries, Dead Nation doesn’t bother to craft a compelling story, or an engaging and immersive world. Maybe that’s why Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition feels so refreshing.

More often than not, the real threat comes from other survivors (The Last of Us anyone?), and the shambling corpses and post-apocalyptic world are merely the backdrops through which the drama unfolds. While the shuffling undead used to serve as moving targets, newer titles explore the world around the zombies, often stranding players in open worlds and leaving them to their own devices. While I don’t often find myself playing your typical zombie horror often, there’s been an evolution of the genre over the last few years that’s hard to miss, even for a casual such as myself.

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