Zombie Army 4: Dead War
Developer/publisher Rebellion Developments
Format PC, PS4 (tested), Xbox One
Release Out now
From Romero to The Walking Dead, zombie stories are hardly ever actually about the threat of the shambling horde. They’re about the threat of us, the ways we turn against each other in times of crisis. Man is the real monster, and all that – and rarely is this more evident than when you’re knee-deep in a multiplayer session of Zombie Army 4: Dead War with a squad of people you would previously have called friends.
is nominally a cooperative game – the four of you are fighting back the same waves of enemies, working towards the same end-of-level objective – but there’s not a huge amount’s beginnings as a spin-off from the series. While those games did introduce co-op modes, the fantasy they traded on was always about being the lone sniper in his nest, separated from the rest of the world by the glass of a scope. brings you closer to the action, taking foes that for the most part need to be within clawing distance to pose a threat and then throwing them at you by the dozen, so that individual headshots quickly become impractical (though never anything less than satisfying).
