![]() ![]() You start the game assigned a random character and must then earn additional playable "heroes" by finding them in-game or completing objectives. What Breakdown does add that can genuinely be called "new" is slim. When you die, you can at least restart at the last level you reached, using any earned heroes, but without any stockpiled resources. Each time you repeat the process, the game gets harder until there's virtually nothing to find and virtually no way to survive. You escape and simply arrive back on the exact same map, Groundhog Day style, only it's now stocked with more zombies, more mutant freaks and less resources to pillage. You then roll up into a new town and start the process over.Įxcept here comes the first of Breakdown's disappointments. The location of hero characters and the escape RV is randomised each time you return to the map.Īs you'd expect, the goal is to set up a community, fortify it and forage for supplies while finding and repairing an RV that can allow you to escape the valley, taking a limited number of characters and resources with you. The Trumbull County map is the same, but all the story content has been stripped out - no Army intrigue, no sinister neighbouring enclaves, just acres of desolate Americana and hordes of the undead to survive. You're kicked out of the sandbox and if you want the experience to endure you need to reload that last save and studiously avoid the final mission.īreakdown, then, is a more true sandbox mode. The DLC addresses a leading complaint from fans: once you've completed the game's story missions, that's it. ![]() Now we have Breakdown, the game's first downloadable content, and it's an appropriately troublesome thing. It's a real unpolished diamond, requiring a forgiving eye but rewarding you with rough-hewn pleasures galore. That probably makes it one of my favourite games of the year, though that's an honour it constantly battles to justify thanks to its hilariously shonky game engine. ![]() When the dust settles on December 31st, State of Decay will have been responsible for some of my most entertaining and memorable gaming moments of 2013. ![]()
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