Review: Dead Age (Xbox One)
Survive the zombie apocalypse with a “Final Fantasy” turn-based combat and permanent death! Manage survivors, craft materials, and make difficult decisions. Defend your camp against hordes of the undead to prevail in this non-linear rogue-lite
Pros:
- Nice graphics.
- 1.8GB Download size.
- 1000 Gamerscore.
- Three profile slots.
- Two difficulties- Casual and hardcore.
- Optional prologue which acts as both a tutorial and a story starter.
- Zombie survival RPG gameplay.
- The story/interactions are written and presented in an almost choose your own adventure style, You get to make choices and manage your own story.
- Combat is turn-based and served up in an in-game event.
- Roguelike elements entwined like once your players dead that’s it.
- Crafting table from the scraps you find.
- Earn EXP. Level up and earn points to put into an upgrade tree with options like more health, Stronger or medkits work better or you have better accuracy with a gun type like assault rifles or handguns.
- Full inventory system. Click a slot and all applicable items will show then just select it. Nice and straightforward.
- Find and recruit new survivors each with unique starting stats and abilities.
- Every member of your team will earn individual ERXP and have their own upgrade table.
- Random loot drops from fights.
- Travel- Choose from a handful of locations and each one will have higher chances of certain materials dropping than others.
- Each run into as location or staying at base and crafting is considered a full day.
- Manage food/rations for the whole base.
- Shop- Buy/sell loot.
- A non-linear story with real in-game consequences.
- Multiple endings.
- A lot of replayability.
- The excellent mashing of two genres.
- Very enjoyable.
Pros:
- Minimal tutorial.
- Slow paced.
- Awkward menu as you use a pointer and the left stick acts like a mouse. Just makes selecting things slower and cumbersome.
- Only a handful of character models so you land up seeing the exact same person over and over.
- You have to play a lot of game to unlock new starting character options.
