
The first State of Decay was a completely solo affair but, for State of Decay 2, Undead Labs has now introduced four-player cooperative play. READ NEXT: Is Borderlands 3 really a thing? State of Decay 2 hands-on: Co-op multiplayer

Now everything is built during gameplay, meaning you won’t simply be waiting around for a new facility nor worrying if your survivors will still be there when you switch your Xbox on in the morning. Oh, and for those who know the horrors of offline updates, they’ve been scrubbed out in State of Decay 2. In a completely uncomplimentary way, you can think of State of Decay 2 as a survival management game, you’ll spend your time out scavenging and securing resources for your community, all while looking for opportunities to expand via recruiting new members or snapping up outposts that help supply your settlements with power, water or scarce resources like food or lumber. However, there real single-player story and gameplay comes from managing your base. You’ll grow your settlement into multiple small outcrops, helping manage a central base with support facilities as you recruit more members into your community.Įach character will have their own personal quest to undertake, which helps direct the general overarching story of State of Decay 2. This takes shape as leading a set of survivors, jumping between various people to help build a settlement and make life more bearable. Your job isn’t to get one person, or a small group of people, through the toughness of this post-apocalyptic wasteland – you need to help humanity rebuild. Instead, it takes the focus of survival and places it into a community aspect.

State of Decay 2 may well be a survival game, but it’s not of the same ilk as past gaming fads as DayZ, Rust or H1Z1. So, if the story is designed to be an individual tale crafted by the player instead of the development team, what is the focus of State of Decay 2’s single player mode? In all honesty, it’s hard to quantify it so simply and clearly.

State of Decay 2 hands-on: Single-player campaign
