state of decay - year-one survival edition

As you will have to work within a specific timeframe, this story is actually more about making choices, albeit hard ones. The basic plot revolves around following orders at the cost of letting the civilians around you die, or ignoring those orders, which might cost you valuable resources but saves the lives of innocent people.

In State of Decay – Lifeline, you’ll find yourself behind the other side of the fence, namely the military side. You’re free to go wherever you please, but there are a few directions you’ll have to follow from time to time, in order to ‘progress’. This means the game offers little to no storyline for you to follow. State of Decay – Breakdown allows you to break free from the chains of a story that would otherwise hold you back from scavenging to the max. Overall the ‘vanilla’ State of Decay is filled with small missions, that allow for the main plot of surviving to become a tad more personal but as far as real story value goes, you’ll be digging through a fairly flimsy plot with some notable scenes from time to time. As the game allows you to switch between characters, you will not get any real background story of all the characters you’re able to control. Of course as you start putting two and two together, you find out that the dead no longer stay dead and that they are out to munch some succulent warm brains, in order to achieve their life goals as a living dead. You’ll be thrown right into the fray as Ed is getting mauled by what seem to be weird ‘cannibals’. In the original game you’ll start out with Marcus, together with his friend Ed. Today, the original game and both DLC releases have been bundled, forming State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition, the remastered edition for the next generation.Īs this collection ‘consists’ out of the main game and two DLC packs you’ll experience two different preset storylines and one story that is pretty much all up to you. After the initial success, two more DLC packs were released, each having their quirks and their own set of challenges. When in 2013 the original State of Decay launched, it was nothing short of a love letter to the survival horror genre that was taking blows, as it is slowly turning into a more fast paced action genre.

State of decay - year-one survival edition