Has anyone checked out State of Decay game

[Ray101492]

I just tried it out...wow. What a giant let down. The game has some cool ideas, but it falls flat in so many more. Firstly, the graphics are abysmal. They look like a late Xbox game; Seriously, this game looks only slightly better than GTA:SA. Usually I don't hold that against a game, but if I'm gonna be spending alot of time in the world, the world better actually look decent. Then there's the controls, which are again, awful; The camera controls are beyond clunky and there's no way to remap or even chose a different layout. You can't even modify the camera speed. And finally there's just poor game design. Thing's like having to reload a gun from an inventory screen or (the one that made me laugh at how moronic this is) the fact that you can't swap items between characters. I looked all throughout the menu screen and couldn't find a single way to swap an item between characters. That means the only way to trade items between each other is go all the way back to a storage box, put the item in there, switch to the other character, and pull it out. That's just dumb. The cherry on this fail pie is the price tag. They actually expect me to pay $20 for this mess. As if!

I enjoyed it for what it was, an Xbox Live Arcade game. Also to reload hold L and press Y.

[Umbra Warrior]

I enjoyed it for what it was, an Xbox Live Arcade game. Also to reload hold L and press Y.

I don't consider a $20 game an arcade game; That's a full fledged game. Also, really? That's how you reload? Wow, that makes sense. Why didn't they just have it so you can only have two weapons readied at a time, then have Y switch between them. Oh, that brings me to another complaint: This game doesn't have any consistency. It's like they want it to be realistic like DayZ, then they want it to be arcade-y like Left 4 Dead. It ends up making the game feel bi-polar.

[MAXsandwich]

Well I broke down and bought it... I was on the fence after playing the trial, but after watching some reviews and hearing more in depth about the games mechanics I went ahead n grabbed it...

And I'm glad I did... the perma-death really has you on the edge of your seat and scared that at any moment things could go wrong and your characters gonna bite the big one. In fact thats what happened to my starting character...

I was out in the woods doing a mission, zombies swarming from every direction my stamina getting lower and lower, running around eating meds desperately while desperately trying to stave off the zombies, when my buddy came in the room, stood next to the tv and started talking to me.

I screamed " WHAT THE F#$# ARE YA DOOIN!!!! "

But it was too late... zombie ate his throat... all dead as a door nail

After that I jes quit the game

I was sick about that for like an hour, but I got over it lol, n I'm having fun

[TheFool]

Been playing this all day and I have to say, it is one of my favorite zombie games since L4D. The zombies are smart and fast. Scavenging for materials like medicine, guns, food and building materials as well as finding survivors is just an extra cherry on top of how great the game is. While the graphics are not that great, it is definately one of those games where you can say graphics don't matter and actually mean it cause it shows in the rest of the game the detail and effort they put into the gameplay mechanics and extra goodies do to. I would give it a solid 9/10. Once Class 4 is released and they do even more work to the game than and add the MMO part to it, If they game stays pretty much the same but just improved (have not found anything that needs imrpoving except maybe the graphics) this could be the best zombie survival game ever to be released on consoles.

[MAXsandwich]

Yeah the more I play of this game the more I get sucked in...

Heres an IGN vid that shows the game in a little more detail.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BylVUWLq0uA

[Schmiznurf]

I am downloading it as we speak.

[Tango80]

The Demo is good. The controls are kinda funny but you get used to them. The graphics are OK. Game idea is really good.

The only downside right now that i see (i've only played the demo) is the 30min Demo not to mention that it's pretty easy to find everything in a building. Usually the House, Tent, or Building type only contains 2 to 3 searchable locations for items. Also on that note everything is in limited amounts.

But from what i have been able to play in the demo so far it's pretty good for $20 game.

[Gratty]

I might have to get it. It would be a nice distraction from Defiance

[Reverend Blood]

After the first slot glitch that came with Defi's patch yesterday I said "what the hell" and downloaded State of Decay. I completely love the game. I hope co-op comes as DLC (ala Scott Pilgrim arcade) later, but as it is, it works. After playing Defiance so much, the car controls seem crazy, and I get mad when there's no boost, but it's still a good game.

[Gratty]

After the first slot glitch that came with Defi's patch yesterday I said "what the hell" and downloaded State of Decay. I completely love the game. I hope co-op comes as DLC (ala Scott Pilgrim arcade) later, but as it is, it works. After playing Defiance so much, the car controls seem crazy, and I get mad when there's no boost, but it's still a good game.

It was originally intended to be a MP game, however MP should be coming along later.