A grotesque and bloated corpse – dead, yet still alive – shambles towards you, groaning gutturally. The dead have come back to life, and … Wait, you've heard this one before You're right, the whole zombie thing is getting a little played out.

Promising core systems; Smashing zeds with car doors

Unbelievably janky; Tedious gameplay; Generic setup

The State Of Decay concept still holds plenty of promise but this sequel is so broken that laughing at its bugs and glitches becomes its primary source of entertainment.

The set-up might be the same as the first game but it's still an intriguing one, and the base-building and people management shows great promise; Competent combat and driving mechanics

The game is so riddled with bugs and patently unfinished it's impossible to imagine it ever working as intended; Missions still lack variety and the tethering and lag ruins the co-op options

It was fun when i first completed the game in a week and then the same thing happens over and over again till you get bored of it

Bought this game because I thought they would allow a true co-op mode. It is more a help your friend progress without improving your community. The day night cycle prefers night most of the time. Graphics are abit dated and AI doesn't respond very well.

Throughout State of Decay 2 , you're expected to be the governing force behind the renewal of society in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. You may groan at the prospect of diving into another open-world zombie game, but developer Undead Labs's latest is less disappointing for its cliché narrative...

There are certainly some neat ideas at the core of State Of Decay 2, but the good stuff is almost always drowned out by technical issues and some core...

Oddly compelling gameplay loop; Awesome soundtrack; Some neat emergent moments

Riddled with serious technical issues; Combat simply isn't much fun; Looks pretty awful

Great game, but lacked the substance of a back story. Found it to open ended, hope the dlcs help make it better.

This is a good fun game, I would give it a 5 star rating if the graphics were better

State of Decay 2 is a flawed game, and it seems to suffer from Microsoft's increased demand for exclusive titles. If it had about six more months or so of development time, it's likely that the tone of this review would be very different.

Combat and movement is a bit more fluid than the original; Multiplayer co-op available; Three maps at launch as opposed to the original's one

Some systems from the original seem simplified for the worse; Repetitive gameplay; Plot is sparse and uninteresting; Tags

When making a sequel, most studios make it a priority to build on the strengths of the original while patching up weaknesses. State of Decay 2 gets the first part right. Five years after the first game clawed its way to cult-favorite status, Undead Labs has released a follow-up that offers...