These are a selection of “perk cards” that you select at the start of each match. It’s introduced the moment you make it to the game’s main hub, which is a military camp for survivors. The game’s “deck building” system is being marketed as the Back 4 Blood’s primary differentiator, aiming to add infinite replayability to the main story mode.
This results in an experience that isn’t on a par with most dedicated “single-player” games. The custom solo decks aren’t great, and most of the features are missing. After attempting to run through the solo campaign by myself, it becomes apparent that the entire game has been designed for fireteams of four. This is also the reason I’d argue that Back 4 Blood isn’t worth considering if you plan to play it solo. The latter is surprisingly easy to do, with everything from accidentally spooking birds, to stumbling through an unmarked, alarmed door alerting the ridden to your location. On more than one occasion, a run that was going swimmingly quickly descended into disaster as a special infected took out our weakest link, or successfully forced us to make a mistake and alert the surrounding ridden to our presence. When they arrive in packs, the AI makes them surprisingly effective at singling out cleaners. For example, the tall boy is basically a giant with a club for an arm that can send cleaners flying with a single hit. Like Left 4 Dead, the game features various “hero” ridden (the game’s name for zombies), each with their own unique special attack. I’ve not felt such satisfaction popping off a zombie’s head with a sniper rifle since Zombie Army 4. This is aided by stellar death and damage animations, which see enemy parts go flying into the distance with each successful shot. The only improvement I noticed on Left 4 Dead here came from Back 4 Blood’s wonderfully satisfying shooting mechanics, which feel substantially more weighty.Įach gun has a distinct weight and satisfying firing mechanic, which makes blasting the arms or face off an incoming zombie super-entertaining. Playing the opening four parts of the first chapter in Recruit difficulty, my team and I blasted our way through the ridden horde with zero issue. This means the first four chapters can feel too much like a warm-up, with it taking time for Back 4 Blood’s more interesting mechanics to really develop.
So, at first glance, there’s very little that separates them outside of aesthetics, aside from their starting weapons.
Unlike Aliens: Fireteam Elite, Warhammer: Vermintide or Deep Rock Galactic, there are no skill trees to be found. Most look like they’d been carbon-copied from The Walking Dead and have equally clichéd, and amusing, dialogue. The characters on offer include all the standard zombie clichés you’d expect. Plus, it’s way more fun playing the levels with friends. The tutorial makes the game feel very basic, with your choice of avatar limited to four out of the eight “cleaners” (characters). If you’re a Left 4 Dead veteran, I’d recommend skipping it. The only difference being a much more developed “tutorial” that tasks you to play through the first four episodes of the campaign with AI bot teammates as it introduces you to its various combat and item management mechanics. The aesthetic and gameplay is pretty much pure Left 4 Dead. It tasks you with fighting your way through a story campaign in teams of four, or solo, blasting hordes of zombies (known in-game as ridden) while desperately trying to make it from one safe room to another. The best way to summarise it is as a cooperative shooter set in a zombie apocalypse.
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Available on multiple platforms Back 4 Blood will launch on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PS4.
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