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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 1.1 hrs on record
Posted: 9 May, 2023 @ 12:41pm
Updated: 16 Nov, 2023 @ 1:31pm
Product received for free

Played on Epic Games, after being offered for free on April 2023

This is an experience entirely focused on its gameplay, which offers the best realized parkour system I've experienced in a videogame, grouped with a robust and ever so satisfying melee combat system. Both of which are fairly upgradable, but at a sufficiently steady rhythm, based on your own experience with the game. Meaning, you gain experience to upgrade each of the game's systems as you engage more and more which each of them, which you'll want to do!

Because, if in the beginning you won't manage to do everything you'll want, you'll soon realize how to keep pushing the boundaries, in order to get better and better at traversing the open world at ease. 15 hours in, and I haven't even unlocked the grapple hook, which is sure to give even more versatility to the movement system (Update: it so does!).
And even the combat, that can get a bit overwhelming with the amount of enemies that can sometimes push you (if you're not careful at evaluating certain situations), is fairly deep, with an array of melee weapons and moves that lets you fight the way you want. After you get the feel for that one [type of] weapon you like, you basically won't want to use guns — unless you find a group of armed mercenaries, or some big brutes, in your path.

Is also that enemy variation that keeps the moment-to-moment gameplay fresh. If you can easily outrun the simpler zombie enemies, when you hear those screams, you'll want immediately to get ready, be it at day or nighttime. You'll quickly understand to maintain several strategies at hand, and which skills you'll want (and need) to unlock to support them.
The open world is also amazingly realized, with complete freedom to grab any climbable edge, but also breaming with a great atmosphere. Beautiful and haunting at the same time, as you take in the warm lighting pouring through the hollow streets, with only the sound of the wind and the dammed screams as you jump from one rooftop to the next. And that's only the first map...!

I never knew I'd get so engaged and addicted to this gameplay loop. Because honestly, outside of that, the story isn't doing much for me, as I usually quickly skip the cutscenes, just to get to the next run through the streets. And the next. And the next...!
The zombie apocalypse was never this fun!
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