Review: State of Decay 2 | PC PowerPlay

A promising sequel that, despite its improvements on the original, still retains as many bugs as it does zombies.

[DigitalRaptor]

Look at the last 2 first-party games Phil Spencer shipped.

The state of Xbox in 2018 is now worse than in 2017. Their E3 has to be stupendous after this.

[UCForce]

Microsoft E3 2018 is going to fill a lot of Third Party Exclusive partnership which isn’t going to work because MS try to hide their embarrassment.

[RpgSama]

Its not about having a stupendous E3 its actually releasing those games and after that, that those games are actually good, because there was a time when Xbox had stupendous E3 showings with games like Scalebound, Phantom Dust (the remake), Fable Legends that were not released and Sea of Thieves, State of Decay 2 that were highly awaited just to come out bad and Crackdown 3 which looks like another Dud.

So now is not even about having a great E3, MS at least for me has to prove themselves not only in what they show, but actually what they eventually release.

[DigitalRaptor]

Well that's true as well. It's crazy to think how many of these games that were once touted as flagship games for the XB1 ended in outright failure. Some news regarding Crackdown 3... a verified user at Resetera had this to say about the game and the cloud tech:

"It's still in MP yeah, it'd be a disaster for them to not have it in at this point given the resources they've thrown at it. From what I know the plan for what the cloud tech would do in that game was much, much larger in scope from when dev started to how it's used now." https://www.resetera.com/th...

Uh-oh.

[trooper_]

It's really pitiful...

[Kryptix]

I guess you can say...

The Xbox is currently in a State of Decay.

Both of those games sum it up, like the shallow $60 Sea of Thieves.

[paintedgamer1984]

The Ashen Luca (pro xbox youtube) said, she would rather have last years mantra of having no games than 2018's games that are buggy broken and little content.

[TheSaint]

I was looking forward to SoD as well, thought they might get this one right after the original SoD had a solid showing.

How wrong I was.

[Masterchief_thegoat]

E3 is going be a joke for the xbox.

[Shuckylad]

Blink and you may miss it!

[aConIsDemocracy]

Xbox fans said Phil was the saviour. He seems to be your Destroyer.

[The Wood]

Hey...In my opinion, the defenders use the wrong metrics as their defence of his tenure . . . Yeah yeah, game pass, bc yeah yeah.......I would appreciate those options 100 percent but on the main metric, phil AND microsoft have flattered to deceive.

[ILostMyMind]

MS can show hundreds "must have of all times", it doesn't matter anymore. Maybe in next generation.

[Atticus_finch]

I didn't think xbox could do worst than 2017, I was really wrong.

[CaptainOmega]

Knack 2 now has a better Metacritic score than State of Decay 2.

[MONOLITHICIDE]

Knack 2 was a great game

[grenadeh]

LOL 5, good joke. Clearly your writers lack the sense to understand what rating a game 50% means. That means it's terrible and borderline literally unplayable, as in not just bugs, game mechanics that don't work, a game that can't be beaten, etc. That definitely isn't the case with SoD 2.

[CaptainOmega]

I heard there is a button to rewind time if you are stuck because of a glitch. Is that true?

[trooper_]

Um...a 50 is pretty bad, especially when the XBox needed strong heavy hitters.

[Prince-Ali]

YOU clearly dont know what 50% means or are too stupid to lool! 5/10 doesn't mean terrible/unplayable looool... you dont know anything quite clearly ahahha

[meka2611]

Where are these bugs?!? Played till 5:30 am last and most of the day. No bugs. So they fixed them and the game is fine I suppose.

[DarkVoyager]

@meka2611

“Where are these bugs?!? Played till 5:30 am last and most of the day. No bugs. So they fixed them and the game is fine I suppose”

All the reviews must be wrong because Xbox fans seem to magically not have any issues.

Sea of Theives was a joke and State of Decay is even worse. I can only imagine Crackdown 3 will be just as bad. Xbox exclusives are crap.

[meka2611]

Hell ill broadcast the game to show you and yes the amount of hate this game is getting is insane and makes no sense at all. Game is great and not many bugs for me. So reviewers are being idiots or early review copies were broken.

[V10Elit3x]

Played it on Xbox One X. Unsteady framerate, frame pacing issues, bugs with quests and that horrible motionblur makes the game look bad. Glad I just had a free month of gamepass. Will never buy this