How To Survive: Storm Warning Edition Review
Added: 08.12.2014 18:07 | 0 views | 0 comments
Naming a game after its tutorial might sound lazy, but it works for How to Survive. It would be like Activision naming its next shooter, Call of Duty: Combat Readiness. Not having “Zombie” or “Dead” in the title of a zombie-themed game is always a welcome change and thus, “How to Survive” stands out. Being stranded on an island with the undead is as dire a situation as any, but the titular manuals defuse the tension thanks to the guides’ author, Kovac, and his tongue-in-cheek delivery. This 2014 repackaging, How to Survive: Storm Warning Edition wasn’t arbitrarily named either. The added rain can literally dampen your best-laid plans. How to Survive is a fine complement to the more immediate and faster-paced zombie shooters like series, but that’s not to say Barricade! is bereft of depth. While other games regularly provide you with resources to fortify your base, How to Survive forces you to leave the comforts of your encampment to scrounge for wooden planks and scant weaponry. You’re only as good as your ability to gather items to reinforce your barricade. Putting in this extra effort is unusual for a wave-based survival mode, and coupled with the exploratory design of How to Survive, Barricade! ended up becoming my favorite mode outside of the campaign. The vegetation might be lush, but can also hide zombies in plain sight.How to Survive: Storm Warning Edition rewards the procrastinating zombie enthusiast who’s been curious about the game and its add-on content. It’s next to useless to the devoted who have followed How to Survive and have picked up every subsequent DLC along the way. Didn’t EKO Software learn anything from the record industry--that the trick to luring fans with greatest hits collections is to add at least one new song, even if it’s terrible? This is not a director’s cut, but rather EKO Software’s aspirational idea of a Game of the Year Edition.
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www.gamespot.com
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