With Girl vs Game I usually focus exclusively on the bad bits because if Sony want to tell me that a game is good (games on PS Plus have to have an 70+ metacritic rating in order to be eligible) then I’m going to prove them wrong the best way that I can but Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition is almost faultless. With no backstory for Scarlett and a fairly generic plot, the game’s story is flimsier than a loaf of Kingsmill in monsoon season but my chosen protagonist, Scarlett Blake (a character named Jack McReady is the male protagonist option) most certainly isn’t a damsel in distress and is very much a one woman killing machine who takes on gameplay that needs little to explanation to make it enjoyable.Īnd enjoyable it is. It’s spearheaded both by the task of survival and the words of a white, geriatric, male doctor who is probably shadier than Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition’s dimly streets and I haven’t finished the story but I’ll probably end up putting two bullets in in the end. ![]() Each step gets you closer to finding out why you’re immune to the disease and how to put together a cure. That leaderboard thing won’t be for everybody though, which is why there’s some semblance of plot. I don’t know the actual mathematics behind Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition’s wave/percentage calculations but I know that it really warms my heart to see that we’ve defeated a higher percentage of our wave than most of the other countries on the leaderboard and that’s more than enough. The menu screen will then give you a score and tot up how many you’ve killed, which then contributes to your country’s percentage which in turn helps you clear out the current wave that your nation is on. And the game reminds you of this facet too, with each level being an efficiency test in how well you can funnel zombies through pathways or lead them on wild goose chases as you pick them off, with the key goal to kill as many of the shambling bastards as you can. I have France hot on my tail and the United States has raced ahead because they have the numbers and are therefore good at everything by default. Specifically, I’ve got all four countries in the United Kingdom on my back. Putting the ‘Nation’ Into Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition I may be Scarlett Blake but this fight is not my own. Dead Nation: Apocalypse is delightful.īut while the core gameplay of Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition is that of running around like a headless chicken with a sub-machine gun, it’s actually a well built MMO and so while there are about 30 other games sat in my PlayStation Plus backlog at the moment, Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition was at the top my pile because of how badly I wanted to enthuse about this aspect of it. I think zombie shooters actually work best this way because nothing spells out being the only immune person in the face of an undead plague like brutal difficulty or difficulty that at least makes you work for it and earn the experience to survive for longer than a great hulking poo monster zombie takes to waddle over to you and explode its shitty innards all over the screen. ![]() It’s also about running away very fast and spinning in a circle whilst hitting things, but I’ll get to that eventually. As a top down shooter the game is all about skill – which I initially didn’t have – and the speed of your reactions. I play every level of the game like I’m already dead because let’s be honest here, I may as well be. ![]() That’s the mindset that I’ve created for my character in Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition. Any more swipes and I’d be dead.īut I’m Scarlett Blake. The streetlamp to my left flickers enthusiastically and it’s then that my eyes adjust and I can see the damage they’ve done: my arm is bloodied, skin perforated as one of those undead blighters has sunk its teeth into my flesh. Freezing air raises the goosebumps on the back of my neck and I inhale the stench of rotting corpses. So, every so often I take on a PS Plus title and test its mettle and this month’s challenger is…Dead Nation: Apocalypse. Passengers get a delectable buffet cart of free titles every month and like the Grade A hoarder that I am, I have yet to get through them all. ![]() Like an ever faithful steam engine, good ol’ PlayStation Plus keeps chugging along.
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