State of Decay 2

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  1. Bowmark
    Aug 8, 2023
    2
    Really one of the worst games ever made. Such a great idea SO badly implemented. Terrible maps that are EXACTLY the same (loot and all) every time. One of the worst AI ever devised. It is so bad that you would think they did it on purpose. The zeds will charge you every time but your helper or the people you meet in the game will just sit there and stare at the zeds till they die.Really one of the worst games ever made. Such a great idea SO badly implemented. Terrible maps that are EXACTLY the same (loot and all) every time. One of the worst AI ever devised. It is so bad that you would think they did it on purpose. The zeds will charge you every time but your helper or the people you meet in the game will just sit there and stare at the zeds till they die. So...soooo....SOOOO many bugs 5 years after release. My favorite one they never fixed is your fellow survivor will get out of the car and not have his weapons on him. So he will just stand there and shoot a non existent gun while you are dying to the horde. Their new update with the plague hearts being dormant until you drive by once and then they awake is horrible. Infestations are a joke to clear now, one crossbow shot and it is money in the bank. Such a great idea so poorly implemented. Hire some real programmers and developers please, you guys are not it.… Expand
  2. Diemok
    Sep 5, 2021
    3
    Просто ужайснейшое автосохранение, случайно нажал "угрожать групировке" вместо "торговли" получилось что убили меня и моего спутника которого я минуту назад пригласил в свою группк. В итоге, хотел умереть и перезапустить сейв, а он сохранился после того как убили спутника. 12/10 потерял спутника, союзную группировку , настроение + игра была удаленаПросто ужайснейшое автосохранение, случайно нажал "угрожать групировке" вместо "торговли" получилось что убили меня и моего спутника которого я минуту назад пригласил в свою группк. В итоге, хотел умереть и перезапустить сейв, а он сохранился после того как убили спутника. 12/10 потерял спутника, союзную группировку , настроение + игра была удалена
  3. kushlordtessema
    Jul 4, 2021
    0
    One of the worst games ever to be exclusive to platforms, when people mention the pathetic exclusives Xbox has it is definitely games like this. Not Forza, Halo, or Gears, but these trash developers who no one heard about--coming from a die hard Xbox fan. The game is one of the buggiest most unfinished pieces of crap, you can tell it was made by talentless people--aka undead labs. I'veOne of the worst games ever to be exclusive to platforms, when people mention the pathetic exclusives Xbox has it is definitely games like this. Not Forza, Halo, or Gears, but these trash developers who no one heard about--coming from a die hard Xbox fan. The game is one of the buggiest most unfinished pieces of crap, you can tell it was made by talentless people--aka undead labs. I've seen modders do better jobs than these full time humans. Repairing cars literally flings them in the air and they helocpoter in the air for 5 seconds before blowing up, or my favorite one where they slide across the ground on their side and smash and blow up instantly when it touches a wall, this has been in the game for 4 years. Text bugs are also frequent and were only recently fixrd with juggernaut edition. Looking at their resume the only game they (Undead labs) ever made is State of Decay, which both of them (1 and 2) end up being garbage, but especially 2. If you paid for this game you got scammed, if you got it with gamepass your time got scammed, only good for achievements or playing with friends/modders, every thing else it is a mess. Driving is terrible but the only way to traverse, car gets stuck every second and you get punished with being swarmed by zombies (even WORSE on harder difficulties), unstuck command is so useless you might as well leg it out of the car if it gets stuck. it takes 10 seconds to use, you have to be still (enemies will drag you out your car), and has a cool down. Ally AI is terrible and a joke unless it is enemy humans then they become OP (they will insta one shot you on harder difficulties, you have to shoot them dozens of times to kill them or headshot them multiple times). The spawns are terrible and zombies will render in on your screen last second, even worse when bloaters or entire packs spawn on your car and damage it or near insta kill you on harder difficulties, some how rendering is even worse on Series X. Overall terrible game. Buggy, laggy, crashes around clusters of plague hearts, TERRIBLE driving (only way to traverse), god awful enemy spawning, and nothing redeeming. No out of world soundtrack, absolutely no story, no character development. For a game lacking so much it is a surprise these terrible devs still could not muster any talent or usefulness in the few areas you can tell they 'tried', 5 years of their legacies down the drain making a forgetabble mess that became apart of the "Xbox has no good games" meme. One of Xbox Studios throw away talent. If state of decay 3 is good its because Microsoft is actually getting more involved with undead labs due to how terrible their games are and providing them a triple A budget. Developers who are so talentless (Fallout new vegas driving mod is better than this games driving) even Microsoft knew they had to get involved and give them a bigger team because they cannot even make a simple game by themselves. It has been 4 years and none of these issues are fixed. Just extra 'content' no asked for, like recently they decided to finally give you a secondary weapon, something thousands of games done before and they finally, after four god blessed years, mustered enough brain cells to implement something a literal higschool CS student could code.… Expand
  4. Steyraus
    Aug 23, 2020
    4
    There is a brief moment while learning the game that it fun. But it quickly becomes a chore, where you want to do one thing but are being nagged to do 5 other thing on top of deal with a feral and hoard..The game has a somewhat fun game play loop ,just like the first game. Only problem is they failed at everything else, just like the first game, even a few more things.
    Graphics are not his    There is a brief moment while learning the game that it fun. But it quickly becomes a chore, where you want to do one thing but are being nagged to do 5 other thing on top of deal with a feral and hoard..The game has a somewhat fun game play loop ,just like the first game. Only problem is they failed at everything else, just like the first game, even a few more things.
    Graphics are not his gen at all, the world is empty and dull and visuals are just not impressive for this gen, if it looked last gen but ran at 60FPS it would be fine, but nope its a 30fps game. The games has less bugs than the first, less, the first game was literally unplayable with bugs, so yeah there is less.
    One of the most annoying thing is the characters. SOD1 had actually interesting characters, there was some attractive girls as you would want in your end on the world zombie fantasy and many side stories and charters you ended up interested even caring about.
    The Character in SOD2 are just crazy bland, there stories are the most uninteresting bunk you could imagine, find tools and record players, crap like that. And most imitating more offensively is they have clearly gone with "Averting of the Male Gaze" thing woke developers love these days. Making every female character just plain ugly and completely unappealing, so as not to appeal MEN!! MEN the main supporters and consumers of their product, they set out to not appeal to them!!!! Many men in the game are very attractive, so they know how to model and make faces, just decided their male fan should only get uggos in their survivor fantasy.
    Overall the game is a hard pass, there a few interesting hours at the start as you learn the game, but then quickly become a chore as the whiney ugly woman contact every 30 secs to demand something.    … Expand
  5. ViniciusSzS
    Aug 16, 2020
    3
    Jogo horrível, jogabilidade pífia, essa ideia de acampamento é igual a muitos jogos de celular e ainda consegue ser pior que muitos jogos mobile.
  6. SANGUINNEX
    Aug 2, 2020
    1
    uma carniça cheio de bugs , persoganes e ambientes sem textura. Parece um jogo de xbox 360
  7. Not_Ur_Momz
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    There are so many bugs! The original may have even been better. The game play is the same but worse.
  8. Valencapo241
    May 22, 2020
    0
    La peor basura que eh jugado, menos mal que es exclusivo para Xbox one; porque no hubiera sido una buena idea haber frustrado a los usuarios de Ps4 con este "Juego". Además que tiene animaciones y contenido muy mediocre y lleno de errores.
  9. Broyax
    Mar 18, 2020
    1
    La suite du premier ou plutôt on prend les mêmes et on recommence... en mieux ou en tout cas en moins mauvais ! Même s'il a fallu quasiment deux ans de patchs (dont un dernier gros appelé "Juggernaut" ce mois de mars 2020) pour que les bugs soient enfin éradiqués... et que tout ce merdier tourne correctement !

    C'est plutôt le cas donc, du moins sur la version "Xbox One X Enhanced",    La suite du premier ou plutôt on prend les mêmes et on recommence... en mieux ou en tout cas en moins mauvais ! Même s'il a fallu quasiment deux ans de patchs (dont un dernier gros appelé "Juggernaut" ce mois de mars 2020) pour que les bugs soient enfin éradiqués... et que tout ce merdier tourne correctement !

    C'est plutôt le cas donc, du moins sur la version "Xbox One X Enhanced", laquelle propose des graphismes relativement satisfaisants pour ce monde ouvert à zombis, le petit développeur étant passé à l'Unreal 4 eu lieu et place du Cry Engine qu'il ne maîtrisait pas du tout.

    Cependant, l'interface générale reste la même ainsi que tous les problèmes du premier jeu, à savoir des mécaniques qui gavent un peu trop rapidement, notamment cet aspect survie très mal fichu et trop contraignant. Il manque en effet toujours de quelque chose alors qu'on se casse le cul à nettoyer au fur et à mesure quelques endroits infestés...

    Il manque donc régulièrement de la bouffe, des médocs, des trucs, des machins et des conneries et les endroits qu'on pourrait revendiquer comme "avant-postes" sécurisés, bah on peut pas parce qu'on ne remplit pas je ne sais combien de conditions à la con... Pareil pour ce qu'on peut théoriquement aménager ou construire dans notre base : il manque toujours des ressources, de la place ou autres conneries à la con...

    Comme dans le premier State, l'inventaire personnel est ultra limité et on passe sa vie à faire des allers et retours pour ramener des sacs et quelques bidules à la base, tout ça pour que ça manque encore et que les autres survivants ne soient là en fait que pour nous casser les couilles avec leur mauvaise humeur (pourquoi le jacuzzi il marche pas ?!).

    Moi aussi, je suis de mauvaise humeur à cause de ce jeu de merde décidément trop merdique et aussi chiant que le premier : tu parles d'une suite...! et deux ans de patches et... tout ça pour ça : c'est toujours de la merde !    … Expand
  10. ferretface
    Jan 26, 2020
    2
    What a missed opportunity. There are a good deal of interesting ideas in the game, but they're all overshadowed by poor execution. Poor design choices make this game is so frustrating to play. The game grabs your attention right away as you find and begin to build a settlement and level-up your characters.
    However, the game soon devolves into a series of never-ending chores punctuated    What a missed opportunity. There are a good deal of interesting ideas in the game, but they're all overshadowed by poor execution. Poor design choices make this game is so frustrating to play. The game grabs your attention right away as you find and begin to build a settlement and level-up your characters.
    However, the game soon devolves into a series of never-ending chores punctuated by mission that roll in faster than can be addressed. And this is when the frustration really sets in. One of the key aspects of the game is managing inventory and survivors. However, when on a mission, you can't switch between survivors without canceling the mission. Want to switch characters because your currently controlled character injured? Too bad. The game won't allow it without cancelling the mission. Oh, and some missions are on a timer, which is kept a mystery to the player. More than once I've been halfway across the map heading towards a mission only to have it time-out, even though no timer was indicated.
    There are other annoying features as well. The game advises the player to take a companion with you, but most of the time they're so brainless, they only serve as a pack mule to help you carry stuff, but you can't switch to their inventory when on a mission. The game also advises you to use explosives to destroy plague hearts, but as you encounter one, your companion runs up to melee the thing only to be knocked back and injured by your explosives.
    And then there are zombies. The game world populates very fast with zombies. And more than a few times I've cleared out an area only to have a massive hoard of zombies magically appear seconds later and attack me.
    But your enemies aren't all zombies. In this game you are constantly battling against bugs. Your driving full speed and suddenly your vehicle hits an invisible object. Sometimes that invisible object causes your ride to catch fire. Sometimes a bug prevents you from exiting the flaming wreck and you die.
    When your character dies, they're gone from the game. That's it. There's not player-controlled save-game feature, so when the character you've spent hours leveling up suddenly dies due to flaws in the game, it's very frustrating.
    The game's title: State of Decay is an appropriate one as it seems to aptly describe this series.    … Expand
  11. Gormph
    Nov 27, 2019
    3
    Trash, this game is sh*t the game-play gets stale pretty fast. First off the NPC's act like babies whining the entire time even if they were begging to join your group, infighting and **** every few seconds, and don't think you can leave base to escape it because they do it over the radio as well. This just took all the fun out of the game for me because you can't even talk to someone inTrash, this game is sh*t the game-play gets stale pretty fast. First off the NPC's act like babies whining the entire time even if they were begging to join your group, infighting and **** every few seconds, and don't think you can leave base to escape it because they do it over the radio as well. This just took all the fun out of the game for me because you can't even talk to someone in co op without muting the game because they do this NON STOP.

    The game is glitchy as hell, knocking you out of the game even in single player over and over again at the worst times, like while you are driving and then you load in, up the road from your car (it does this in single player as well). To make it worse because of the disconnect and stuttering you can end up totaling a car in the middle of nowhere so that you can enjoy a long hike back to base without the resources you were out collecting.

    Also don't bother taking anyone with you when you go out of base, half the time they won't attack the zombies till they have taken several large bites out of your back stolen your wallet and gave you a swirly. To make followers worse they can be in perfect health and armed to the teeth only to be killed by a foul tempered butterfly. Having said all this, the idea of a good game is in here somewhere, IDK where but it is, but fu*k the NPC **** man at least space that sh*t out a few minutes PLEASE.

    Dont buy this game, dont play this game, people have to learn to put effort into things and developers need to play test their own games.    … Expand
  12. genetix987
    Nov 8, 2019
    0
    Wow this is new low for microsoft, i didnt even know it was possible to make a game that bad in 2018.
  13. XB0
    Sep 5, 2019
    0
    1) Las bases son simplemente un armario de almacenamiento glorificado + estación de artesanía. El desarrollador no comprende el deseo de los jugadores de crear un oasis (que pueden fortalecer a través de sus propios esfuerzos) mientras están rodeados de zombis mortales. Algunos puntos destacados:

    - Watch towers no hace nada para proteger tu base, los NPC no dispararán desde ella, sino    1) Las bases son simplemente un armario de almacenamiento glorificado + estación de artesanía. El desarrollador no comprende el deseo de los jugadores de crear un oasis (que pueden fortalecer a través de sus propios esfuerzos) mientras están rodeados de zombis mortales. Algunos puntos destacados:

    - Watch towers no hace nada para proteger tu base, los NPC no dispararán desde ella, sino que bajarán de la torre para pelear contra los zombies.
    - Las paredes son principalmente para miradas: los zombis simplemente treparán para morderte mientras navegas por tu inventario o administras tu base.
    - Las instalaciones médicas mejoradas son decepcionantes, ya que la peste de la sangre es una mera molestia (los ingredientes son demasiado fáciles de obtener, demasiado indulgentes si se infecta).
    - "Área segura permanente" alrededor de la base y puestos de avanzada como se indica en el juego es una broma.

    2) Se suponía que los enclaves (o comunidades de sobrevivientes de NPC) agregaban profundidad al juego al permitir a los jugadores formar relaciones beneficiosas con ellos (a través de la asistencia) o proporcionar conflictos si se vuelven hostiles a su comunidad. Pista: no lo hacen.

    - Los grupos de NPC están ahí para rogarte constantemente ayuda como un grupo de bebés llorones indefensos. En el momento en que no los ayude UNA VEZ, empacarán y se irán, incluso si previamente los ayudó.
    - Estás constantemente abrumado con MÚLTIPLES solicitudes de varios grupos de NPC y no podrás llegar a todas a tiempo antes de que caduquen.
    - Los grupos de NPC no crecen / se expanden ni conducen a historias secundarias más interesantes.
    - La recompensa por ayudarlos es mínima en el mejor de los casos. (influencia agrícola + el recluta extraño)

    3) La historia es un festival de repetición. No lo estropearé aquí, pero solo implica hacer la búsqueda tutorial y luego plagar corazones una y otra vez por un número determinado de veces + una misión heredada (se le asigna uno (de 4 posibles) según el principio de su comunidad líder). El juego literalmente termina una vez que finalizas la misión heredada. Eso es. De Verdad.

    - Muchas misiones secundarias recicladas (por ejemplo, ¡las mejores letras de canciones jamás escritas por npc A al azar!).
    - El trabajo general se vuelve aburrido rápidamente. Nadie en tu comunidad quiere trabajar, siempre serás el tipo que trae los recursos a casa, todos los demás simplemente se sientan en la base y se quejan de cosas, o te sabotean activamente destruyendo recursos en tu arsenal.
    - USTED debe eliminar las infestaciones, todos los demás grupos de sobrevivientes son solo para mostrar.
    4) Errores en abundancia - ¿Atrapado en la pared? comprobar. IU desapareciendo? comprobar. ¿Física extraña que hace que tu auto haga acrobacias después de golpear una barandilla? comprobar. ¿Cámara apagándose? Comprobar. ¿Zombis invisibles que aún pueden masticarte la cara? Comprobar.

    Hay demasiados errores para enumerar. Y aún no hemos comenzado con los errores multijugador todavía. Basta decir que algunos de tus mejores momentos en este juego serían reírte de los errores. Y si me piden que califique su juego en el menú de inicio una vez más ...

    5) Hay muchos otros problemas con este juego para enumerar aquí. Los personajes planos con líneas aburridas sonoras, la mayoría de los zombis se ven iguales, las escaleras se niegan a registrar a tu personaje la mayor parte del tiempo, así que disfruta cayendo a tu muerte a pesar de presionar w como el juego te pide, etc.

    Resumen:
    Evita esta estafa por ahora. Los fanáticos están ocupados enterrando la cabeza en la arena y gritando elogios por esta basura SOD 1.5 que tardó CINCO años en hacerse. Ignórelos: es realmente revelador cuando lo único positivo que la mayoría de ellos puede decir es "si te gusta SOD 1, te encantará SOD 2". Jajajajaja por favor.

    Quienes lo defienden solo lo han jugado en gamepass y pues es obvio ya que este juego raspando cuesta 1 euro.    … Expand
  14. xxmar-au_san_xx
    May 9, 2019
    0
    jogo horrivel graficos de ps2 e jogabilidade horrorosa um dos piores jogos dessa geração com certeza.
  15. FrankieZee
    Apr 28, 2019
    4
    The game never becomes fun. it's always more of a boring task with the promise of fun , but the fun is never delivered , the missions just become more tedious and boring . the cars use gas too quickly , the whole finding plague hearts to cure infections is tedious and boring , it should have been find some plague hearts create the cure and done. having to constantly collect more getsThe game never becomes fun. it's always more of a boring task with the promise of fun , but the fun is never delivered , the missions just become more tedious and boring . the cars use gas too quickly , the whole finding plague hearts to cure infections is tedious and boring , it should have been find some plague hearts create the cure and done. having to constantly collect more gets boring as does always gassing up a car to go five blocks down the road and run again , the whole base management is overly complicated ,
    I liked the first game was hoping they would improve on it and add online gameplay , well they added on-line gameplay but made it some kind of boredom endurance simulation . I'm very disappointed in the game I was really looking forward to it and it just doesn't deliver any entertainment value at all    … Expand
  16. Lttrev
    Apr 5, 2019
    0
    This is a disgusting mess of a game. I dont care for graphics too much but when we're on the XBONE and a game is looking like a PS1 port... we have problems. Now as far as gameplay goes- its glitches all over the place. This game is a complete embarrassment of the Xbox franchise. I played this, Halo 5, and Sea of Thieves. After that combination of complete dog **** i went out and purchasedThis is a disgusting mess of a game. I dont care for graphics too much but when we're on the XBONE and a game is looking like a PS1 port... we have problems. Now as far as gameplay goes- its glitches all over the place. This game is a complete embarrassment of the Xbox franchise. I played this, Halo 5, and Sea of Thieves. After that combination of complete dog **** i went out and purchased a Ps4. I can no longer support a library of games this mediocre. This was an abymal mess of a game. DO NOT PLAY IT. It is truly a 0.… Expand
  17. dmetacritic1
    Feb 26, 2019
    1
    I've played it from its release state to current. The game is still very buggy, has no story, horrible vehicle driving functionality (nothing like you’d expect in this decade), and has beyond tedious game play. To make matters worse, they added constant spawning of zombies every few seconds. You can kill every zombie in sight. Then turn you back and 3 more will magically appear. NothingI've played it from its release state to current. The game is still very buggy, has no story, horrible vehicle driving functionality (nothing like you’d expect in this decade), and has beyond tedious game play. To make matters worse, they added constant spawning of zombies every few seconds. You can kill every zombie in sight. Then turn you back and 3 more will magically appear. Nothing about the game is difficult, but it does succeed in being annoying with these mechanics. The devs take forever to release an update/patch to correct things, and when they do, they bring in new bugs. Makes people wonder if the devs even play the game they designed.

    The game had a lot of potential but failed in just about everything. And that includes the 15-year-old graphics. SOD1 was much better in just about every aspect. The only thing SOD2 brings to the table is the option to play indefinitely, which you couldn't do in SOD1 since there wasn't any way to generate enough of all needed resources.

    Your typical game session is- Get a call from an enclave (since everyone but you completely incapable of doing anything), drive over to them, accept their demand (which is asking for something), drive to said location on the map that contains what they want, then drive back to them and deliver it, then go drive back home. Your vehicle will either get stuck or flip at least once) spin out a bunch of times, and you’ll need to refuel the at least once car every round trip. All while zombies magically appear and a horrible "glare" effect is occurring on the car. By this time an infestation should appear that you should go clear. If not, your people will start complaining, lowering moral. Outposts are almost pointless as they don't do much.

    Multiplayer is basically you just helping the host do their thing for their base, then disappearing. It can be fun as well but it's not a true multiplayer world. And there is a lot of loading too. Load into your game, then loading to find someone, and finally loading into their game. If you quit or get disconnected, you get sent back to game menu. Then you will have to load back into your game again then start the multiplayer loading(s) again.    … Expand
  18. silverandsubtle
    Feb 25, 2019
    3
    Boring, repetitive, unrewarding gameplay - was really disappointed and only played a few hours - just wasn't enjoyable to play.
  19. Legendb2015
    Feb 25, 2019
    3
    this game is basically state of decay 1 with co-op added. They were too lazy to even develop a new map or change around the old map that much, they reused all assets. Lazy cash grab off adding co-op which should have been just a dlc to the first one but they got greedy with it.
  20. Gamer7118
    Jan 8, 2019
    0
    Its a good game when i can play i keep getting kicked off the game while playing offline it is very frustrating and and pisses me off that the creators have not done anything about it i will boycot the game if it keeps up!!!!!! Save your money waste of time!!!!!
  21. Nagoyablue73
    Nov 26, 2018
    4
    So dull. Run around, fetch some stuff, bad combat mechanics, noisy and slow searching through everything, I gave up after a few hours. I thought games were meant to be fun?
  22. Rapida716
    Oct 4, 2018
    0
    The game is 0 points. Because it bothers you very quickly, it does not make sense, there is little content, stupid enemies, stupid tasks. But the price tag is like a good AA game. Lags at first on consoles. Another trash from Microsoft.
  23. BrettSiebenhaar
    Aug 12, 2018
    4
    I have no idea what happened with this game. The first State of Decay was a decent game, not perfect, but atleast playable. This game failed compared to the first one. The gameplay and the graphics did a complete 180. Mind boggling...
  24. DeathRune
    Jul 3, 2018
    0
    I am going to make this quick and simple. State of the decay was by far one of my most favorite games. But never in all my 30 plus years as a gamer have I ever seen so many bugs, glitches and good lord some of the crap in this game i cant even label. It got to a point that I was at the end of the game and it would glitch on me and would not let me finish my task. And no matter how i triedI am going to make this quick and simple. State of the decay was by far one of my most favorite games. But never in all my 30 plus years as a gamer have I ever seen so many bugs, glitches and good lord some of the crap in this game i cant even label. It got to a point that I was at the end of the game and it would glitch on me and would not let me finish my task. And no matter how i tried to work around the glitch i would completely redo the whole thing all over again three times trouble shooting through my options and to no avail it did it to me 3 times over a week of grinding at the game.. For a survivalist game bugs and glitches are the worse thing to encounter. Because every action has real consequences and if your game is bugging out like this one does on a steady basis and new ones forming as if the bugs are AI your frustration overcomes the simplest tasks and its like the bugs are mutating as the game progresses. I.ve never seen anything like it in all my life. Undead labs you should be ashamed of yourself apparently you need to get your crap together, You need to fire every single one of your beta testers because they don't have a clue to what they are doing. You have lost me as a dedicated gamer to your title and every other person I know that owns the game are having the same issue even after your update that only fixed some major issues. I give this game so many thumbs down I am returning it back to the game store I purchased it from and I will go against any other title you try to put out they are so many other issues I have gained against you but i will trickle them out as I see fit.. P.S Not at all worth the money it was purchased for the game isn't even worth 5 dollars. Close your doors Undead Labs… Expand
  25. dantes950
    Jun 25, 2018
    3
    repetitive and boring without a sence of progress almost the entire game until you realize what to do becuse the game wont tell you and still after knowing it is actually nothing good to be honest, the first one was way better and with a story to follow
  26. UryelNiiChan
    Jun 25, 2018
    4
    Horrible game full of bugs, and physics of the game very well done, the game has an excellent idea but could not make the expected.
  27. Kerk21
    Jun 8, 2018
    0
    Won't even let me play. Awful. My brother and I both bought this game. After waiting for it to download, we loaded it up on both Xbox's. On his Xbox, his screen turned black when trying to start a new community, and nothing would happen after that. On my Xbox, I can make it to the character selection screen before beginning the game, at which point it freezes upon making a selection andWon't even let me play. Awful. My brother and I both bought this game. After waiting for it to download, we loaded it up on both Xbox's. On his Xbox, his screen turned black when trying to start a new community, and nothing would happen after that. On my Xbox, I can make it to the character selection screen before beginning the game, at which point it freezes upon making a selection and won't begin the game. Absolutely ridiculous that they would release this game in the state that it's in. I might be able to write a decent review on the actual game play, if either me or my brother could actually play the game that we just spent $30 on. Nothing but a waste of time and money, both of which I wish I could get back. Unbelievable.… Expand
  28. Cerebrado
    Jun 5, 2018
    0
    Disgusting always the same **** broken multiplayer. Bugs etc etc waste of money
  29. DaveH911
    Jun 4, 2018
    4
    Simple, tedious, boring... Uninstalling this waste of storage space today...
  30. Exanthius
    Jun 4, 2018
    2
    Despite what you hear from Microsoft or other sources: This is not a AAA title. It might have been in 2012. I usually don't reduce games to the graphics, but if a title is advertised as THE exclusive savior of the platform with AAA quality, I simply expect more and not outdated graphics. AAA are games like Horizon Zero Dawn. With an experienced and resourceful developer. Don't get meDespite what you hear from Microsoft or other sources: This is not a AAA title. It might have been in 2012. I usually don't reduce games to the graphics, but if a title is advertised as THE exclusive savior of the platform with AAA quality, I simply expect more and not outdated graphics. AAA are games like Horizon Zero Dawn. With an experienced and resourceful developer. Don't get me wrong, I love my Xbox, but with exclusives like this, the platform is doomed. After the desaster around Scalebound and the how-can-we-put-as-little-content-as-possible-in-a-game Sea of Thieves, the platform lacks the AAA exclusive games.
    However, this review is about State of Decay 2 and not Xbox as a whole. So why did I return my copy to the store after 15 hours of gameplay? It's the classic problem with "open world" games that are advertised as being diverse in terms of content. The game gets repetitive really quickly and even after a few hours I was not immersed into the game. The reason for this might be the annoying bugs I encountered (indicator why it's not AAA) as well as the already mentioned underwhelming graphics.

    I can have fun with titles like Minecraft or games that focus on their art style (Okami). But when being promised a high quality game in 2018, I don't expect 2012 graphics. If you don't believe me, look at footage of this game and then compare it to other "big" titles. The price is not justified for how the game is performing in terms of story, bugs and graphics. It hurts to admit it, but this game damaged the Xbox platform more than it helped.

    Don't buy this game.

    Sincerely, a disappointed Xbox fanboy.    … Expand
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#5 Most Discussed Xbox One Game of 2018
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#4 Most Shared Xbox One Game of 2018

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Mixed or average reviews - based on 70 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 70
  2. Mixed: 38 out of 70
  3. Negative: 6 out of 70
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Dec 31, 2018
    40
    Innovations in State of Decay 2 don´t solve any problems, but rather add some more. The game unnecessarily forces on its multiplayer and feels very impersonal. [Issue#287]
  2. Gamers Heroes
    Sep 4, 2018
    40
    State of Decay 2 is going to be very hit and miss for a number of people. If you can ignore the flaws, there is a fun game to be had when played with a friend. That said, even if you ignore its flaws, you can’t deny that this game was not ready for release.
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  3. CD-Action
    Aug 2, 2018
    75
    Generally State of Decay 2 looks more like a remaster of the original game than a true sequel. It just does not expand the formula enough and still contains too many repetitive activities that make you go through the motions for the sake of getting it done. That’s why I recommend playing it in short sessions. I have no doubt that people unfamiliar with the first State of Decay will enjoy the second one much more, as everything will be new to them. [07/2018, p.70]
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