It’s the kind of development purity that is a welcome rarity from a major publisher producing a major new IP for a new console. I suspect that the cricket bat is Ubisoft’s admission that this game has a limited market appeal, and rather than apologise for it, it has challenged the players to either get on with the game, or get out. Yes the game is set in England, but there are sports (and potential melee weapons) that have a more global appeal than cricket. Surely Ubisoft realised that cricket is such a niche sport on a world scale that a baseball bat would have made more sense? In fact, the game is alienating right down to the default weapon players have access to – the cricket bat. Once again this is a decision that is brilliantly conducive to building an atmosphere of survival horror, but I suspect alienating to many people that prefer run-and-gun style action experiences. Weapons and ammunition are severely limited, to the point where hoarding wherever possible becomes a substantial feature of the game.
The goal – to simply survive – is a little alien to the norm for videogames where players expect going in to be presented with objectives to “win.” So I do understand where the negative reviews are coming from – this is not a game for everyone. Players can even leave messages for one another – a feature torn in its entirety from the Soul’s franchise.Īs a big fan of Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls, the challenge of ZombiU appealed to me, and as a fan of classic zombie films, I feel this game is one of the finest recreations of a zombie apocalypse that we’ve seen in games yet.
It’s a relentlessly challenging game that focuses on players learning through dying, and has some asynchronous online multiplayer options – dead characters turn into zombies and can be killed by online friends. Thematically, ZombiU is very much like From Software’s Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls games. What I got was an intense horror game that was… familiar from start to finish.
Given all the hype behind it, and indeed my first impressions of the game from a Wii U demo booth, I expected an intense horror game quite unlike what I had ever played before. I really did expect ZombiU to be more creative than it was in the end.
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