So, what is World War Z exactly? It’s a third-person four-player cooperative survival game where teams are tasked with making it from point A to point B intact.
By and large it clears that bar, and the attractive AA-pricing certainly helps salve most quibbles concerning quality. Saber Interactive didn’t need to be “as good” as Left for Dead to be successful. Of course, not all the end results have been great: of the games I just listed Warhammer Vermintide 2 is the only one I can confidently recommend, considering the other two are absolute duds. Left for Dead is essentially a genre at this point, what with Vermintide, Overkill’s The Walking Dead, and Earthfall all hewing closely to Valve’s core design. The general consensus at launch seemed to be, “it’s Left for Dead, but not as good,” which is fine all said: Left for Dead 1 and 2 were exceptional games, so merely existing as a “lesser” Left for Dead contender isn’t near as bad as it sounds (considering Valve hasn’t touched the franchise in 11 years, and only just returned to what we believe to be full-on game development, competitors had to fill the void somehow). As I noted earlier, we didn’t review the game when it initially launched, so I wanted to be thorough and see how far the game has evolved since last year. I’ve seen that phrase bandied about quite a bit while researching World War Z these last few days. World War Z is more than a “lesser” Left for Dead contender. Operative word there being “largely.” Much like the zombies in game some parts of World War Z are a little worse for wear than others, and a plethora of performance issues and bugs dampen what is an otherwise fun, if remarkably repetitive, experience.
Of course, quantity over quality doesn’t mean jack shit if the quality is abysmal, so it’s a good thing World War Z is a largely solid game. There’s a healthy amount of content to chew on in World War Z: GOTY Edition for what is essentially a AA cooperative game. If you are a new player though, coming in now with only the GOTY Edition up for grabs, then it’s not a bad deal on paper.
#BEST WORLD WAR Z UPGRADE#
If you are a returning player who never bought the season pass (which includes all the GOTY content, including Marseille), the upgrade may seem a bit steep then for what’s actually behind the paywall. At a surface level this doesn’t seem like much for the asking price: most of the actual content Saber Interactive released for World War Z has been free, so any enterprising zombie slayer who picks up the game will have access to the Horde Mode, Challenge Mission, difficulty settings, and additional missions added to the original four chapters. World War Z: GOTY Edition bundles up all the paid content that was released over the last year for the game and delivers it with a handful of new missions set in Marseille, France.
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