Periods of running and gunning are often interspersed with moments of hunkering down, setting up defenses, and getting ready to push back against the visually striking and signature zombie hordes from the movie.
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The four campaigns hit a lot of the same beats with similar objectives carrying across each of them. Each comes with their own story trailer that explains who they were before the dead began to walk again. They lack the personalities of Louis, Ellis, Coach, and the rest, but they are visually interesting enough to still merit players picking a favorite. Rather than have the same foursome of characters for each campaign, World War Z takes players globe-trotting like the original novel and focuses on a new quartet of survivors in each story. While it's light on new ideas, World War Z does enough to stand on its own too. If you've played Left 4 Dead, you'll know none of this is new, and yet World War Z comes in a long line of games quite like it so you can't really fault Saber either. Along the way, you and up to three others will scavenge for weapons and equipment like molotovs, health packs, and ammo, often stopping to fend off massive swarms of the more modern fast-moving undead.
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Multiple campaigns play out across chapters while an AI director throws hordes at you, including familiar special zombies, from different angles and with reactive pacing. The game is unabashedly a near Left 4 Dead clone, taking so much from the seminal series and putting it in third-person.
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It's a weird proposition to base your game on a relatively quiet zombie property famous for its movie sequel's development hell, but the game ends up being the best example of Brooks' zombie universe. If the name and imagery feel vaguely familiar to you, that's because World War Z the video game is based on the Brad Pitt vehicle from several years ago of the same name, itself based on the Max Brooks book from years before that.