As a multiplayer cooperative zombie-themed game with the same characteristics as the movie of the same name , the huge zombie tide , Zombie World Wars: Aftermath " finally landed on the Steam platform with a new chapter and a new map two years after epic 's debut , which allowed more and more players who like to shoot zombies to access the work.
The game itself is divided into two parts: a cooperative story and a multiplayer online battle. The plot is divided into a total of seven major chapters, each of which includes three to four small chapters, of which one to four are the previous content, and the five to seven chapters are newly released content, players can choose to break through the level or cross-platform match teammates together to kill endless zombies. The multiplayer section includes PVPVE based on points or kills, such as team competition and King of the Hill Points mode.
In the plot section, we can see the shadow of the V Society's famous zombie game "The Road to Survival", and the players work together to fight against the zombies who are attacking in the vast and many attacks. The difference is that players no longer only have four characters to choose from, each major chapter has its own chapter character, and because the content of chapter seven immediately follows the fourth chapter, there are a total of 24 characters with 4 *6 to play. Characters have an interconnected career growth path, which means that different characters and different attributes can be combined according to the player's play style to better play their unique play style. For example, the talent of the drone series, which may not be the most powerful, but the use of the firepower of the drone is definitely suitable for life saving and steady fighting.
When the player uses a character to open a large chapter, the background story animation of the currently used character is also unlocked, and they will understand how the character grew before and after the disaster. The game flow is basically a puzzle encounter + corpse tide guard battle, the player four-person squad needs to break through the puzzle all the way, quietly kill the zombies along the road or burst to the end with great fanfare, in the face of wild bulls, bombers, poison gas package special zombies need to be familiar with the response and cooperation; in the face of wave after wave of violent corpse tide, choose the appropriate defensive equipment and facilities, drag the zombies to attack fiercely, and finally reach the destination, continue to live.
By default, the game adopts the opening fixed weapon combination - main, secondary, and heavy weapons (except for the initial weapon affected by the talent point branch) + talent system system, as the level progresses, players can explore the map, find different supply boxes and hidden rooms to obtain powerful weapons, and at the end of the game, increase the proficiency of the weapons you have used to obtain upgrade points for weapons and talents. In the multiplayer mode, players can play 2 to 8 people in different modes and different maps, and players also have another set of talent systems that are different from the plot part, the corresponding upgrades are not so complicated, as long as you have been playing the multiplayer mode, you can unlock the upgrade suitable for the player's style of play route, in the multiplayer competition to get a little advantage in the level.
Although the game itself is a zombie-themed game, inseparable from the routine of the brush game, but due to the compact plot between small chapters and the rich character talent system, this game is full of some fun and challenges. In addition, there are still some shortcomings in the game, such as obviously having a first-third-person perspective, but it is very inconvenient to switch in the menu settings, and some guns have sights but can not aim at the machine, at most can only shoot shoulder; the AI character's AI is really not very bright, compared to the previously mentioned "Road to Survival", the AI of this work can only do is to find and kill special zombies and help to support after the player falls, even the blood pack will not help the player to fight well, encounter rat swarms and zombie swarms, It also doesn't run and cope well, and on high difficulty it is often slammed to death by monsters; characters are sometimes stuck by models, and the level of optimization needs to be improved.
Overall, if the game had entered the field of view of more players earlier and collected the opinions of more players, it might have gotten better. Even so, Zombie World Wars: Aftermath is still a playable co-op shooter, perfect for friends to play in a black team.