It's an inferior Left 4 Dead clone. It does some things right like having unlockable weapon and character skins, but it's bogged down by a needlessly convoluted card system and is plagued with bugs even after two years of release.

I gave up on Act 4 (of 6) of the campaign - played nothing else - and so far I've: Fallen through the map, had my character "die" hanging on a ledge that didn't exist, and got insta-killed in the final phase of a really annoying and unfun boss fight at Act 4.

Speaking of said boss fight, it's needlessly hard to do with the bots on the easiest difficulty and quite frankly, I can't be bothered to try to go through it again or to finish the slog that is this solo campaign.

I don't know about other platforms, but it's pretty telling to the quality of the game when only 9% of the Xbox playerbase has finished Act II of the game (yes, I'm aware it being on Gamepass has a bit to do with it, but still).

It's a shame that Turtle Rock couldn't nail down the formula and make a good Left 4 Dead successor with this (or presumably Evolve). Maybe they'll get it right the next time, but I wouldn't count on it.

Reviewed on Nov 26, 2023


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