I am not a very good review writer but I've decided to write this. Mostly because the game deserves it.

It shares the same path and story as For Honor. Huge at the launch, hated by many a few weeks after, loses 90% of its playerbase almost immediately, I begin to love it. Here we go again.

This game made it to my most played games very quickly and I still can't get enough of it. Here's my overview of the game distributed into the points below.

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PROS:


✔️Good graphics

✔️Huge replayability

✔️Way more fun with friends

✔️Roadmap full of content for the upcoming months

✔️Straight forward gameplay moderately easy to learn

✔️Interesting and actually achievable achievements to get

✔️Great cosmetic rewards, especially after beating it on the hardest difficulty

✔️Has a lengthy campaign with various stages and nonrepetitive gameplay (at least to me)

✔️8 characters that you get for free at the beginning, each offering a unique buff, team-based-bonus and starting weapons

✔️Available customization of your weapons with various attachments offering bonuses that you find throughout the levels

✔️Gunplay & movement is so on point I felt like playing a competitive shooter, really well done for "just" a zombie killing game

✔️Even if mostly advertised as a PvE shooter, it has an interesting PvP mode with fluid mechanics where you play as the special zombie classes vs player survivors

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CONS:


❌The servers are a mess, I tend to lag even when hosting (I have a really fast net)

❌The gore is mediocre. Not bad but Left4Dead, a decade old game, did it twice as good

❌Horrible to play with randoms, the lack of communication and amount of tunnel-visioned people is astounding

❌Aside of a certain level with a jukebox full of licensed real world tracks, the OST in this game is not very catchy/good

❌Broken AI (survivors), ranging from Aimbotting sentry guns (rare case) to innefficient toddlers with BB guns and broken pathfinding

❌(ALREADY FIXED) The enemy-spawning system is utterly broken from time to time, resulting in an unfair carnage of specials at a single chokepoint (up to 6 specials in a total area of 15 square meters at the same time), we were told this got fixed. Can confirm it was NOT fixed yet

❌(ALREADY FIXED) Not a newbie / casual player friendly game. The hardest difficulty (Nightmare) needs to be tweaked. At this state it is a sh*tfest and unfun to beat without using a meta like speedrunning or glitching (grenade duping). Almost impossible to beat by playing -normal- and without a full team of super focused people

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SIDE NOTES:


🔶Even though the game is easy to learn, it's hard to master

🔶This game is very RNG based, usually not in a favor of the players, occasionally making a run borderline unbeatable on the harder difficulties

🔶There is a great official B4B Discord for people that Look for Groups so in case you don't want to play alone, you won't have trouble finding buddies there (for any difficulty)

🔶Decently big arsenal of weapons, at least two weapons from each category (SMGs, ARs, Shotguns...). There are 5 melee weapons which are unfortunately leaning more towards a lacklustre, but a melee rework is confirmed and coming later on so this point might change in the future

🔶B4B has a decent story which is unfortunately not delivered well, or rather - it's hard to deliver, since it's mostly via radio dialogues and a few cutscenes. Most of the players seem to just care about the point-and-shoot aspect in this game, almost no one pays attention what actually happens around them, they just see stuff to shoot. Played it with a lot of friends, none seemed to actually catch on what's happening. So I am putting this in a neutral zone, rather than a flaw since both sides are to blame

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Graphics: 7.5/10
Gameplay: 8/10
Singleplayer: -
Multiplayer (with friends): 9/10
Multiplayer (with randoms/bots): 3/10
Soundtrack: 4/10
Optimization: 7/10
Replayability: 10/10

Overal: 7.5/10
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Overally - The campaign can be played over and over again and you still can't get enough. It gives you this weird -drive- that pushes you forward, making you want to do all the achievements while keeping you feeling rewarded for even the smallest ones. Even if it's not the most popular zombie slasher game out there, it deserves a special place in my heart.

UPDATED: 21th of December 2021 ; Wording, Changed some points because they were fixed/patched

I am not a very good review writer but I've decided to write this. Mostly because the game [b]deserves it[/b]. It shares the same path and story as For Honor. Huge at the launch, hated by many a few weeks after, loses 90% of its playerbase almost immediately, I begin to love it. Here we go again. This game made it to my most played games very quickly and I still can't get enough of it. Here's my overview of the game distributed into the points below. ______________________________________________ [u][i]PROS:[/i][/u] ✔️Good graphics ✔️Huge replayability ✔️Way more fun with friends ✔️Roadmap full of content for the upcoming months ✔️Straight forward gameplay moderately easy to learn ✔️Interesting and actually achievable achievements to get ✔️Great cosmetic rewards, especially after beating it on the hardest difficulty ✔️Has a lengthy campaign with various stages and nonrepetitive gameplay (at least to me) ✔️8 characters that you get for free at the beginning, each offering a unique buff, team-based-bonus and starting weapons ✔️Available customization of your weapons with various attachments offering bonuses that you find throughout the levels ✔️Gunplay & movement is so on point I felt like playing a competitive shooter, really well done for "just" a zombie killing game ✔️Even if mostly advertised as a PvE shooter, it has an interesting PvP mode with fluid mechanics where you play as the special zombie classes vs player survivors ______________________________________________ [u][i]CONS:[/i][/u] ❌The servers are a mess, I tend to lag even when hosting (I have a really fast net) ❌The gore is mediocre. Not bad but Left4Dead, a decade old game, did it twice as good ❌Horrible to play with randoms, the lack of communication and amount of tunnel-visioned people is astounding ❌Aside of a certain level with a jukebox full of licensed real world tracks, the OST in this game is not very catchy/good ❌Broken AI (survivors), ranging from Aimbotting sentry guns (rare case) to innefficient toddlers with BB guns and broken pathfinding ❌[b](ALREADY FIXED)[/b] The enemy-spawning system is utterly broken from time to time, resulting in an unfair carnage of specials at a single chokepoint (up to 6 specials in a total area of 15 square meters at the same time), we were told this got fixed. Can confirm it was NOT fixed yet ❌[b](ALREADY FIXED)[/b] Not a newbie / casual player friendly game. The hardest difficulty (Nightmare) needs to be tweaked. At this state it is a sh*tfest and unfun to beat without using a meta like speedrunning or glitching (grenade duping). Almost impossible to beat by playing -normal- and without a full team of super focused people ______________________________________________ [u][i]SIDE NOTES:[/i][/u] 🔶Even though the game is easy to learn, it's hard to master 🔶This game is very RNG based, usually not in a favor of the players, occasionally making a run borderline unbeatable on the harder difficulties 🔶There is a great official B4B Discord for people that Look for Groups so in case you don't want to play alone, you won't have trouble finding buddies there (for any difficulty) 🔶Decently big arsenal of weapons, at least two weapons from each category (SMGs, ARs, Shotguns...). There are 5 melee weapons which are unfortunately leaning more towards a lacklustre, but a melee rework is confirmed and coming later on so this point might change in the future 🔶B4B has a decent story which is unfortunately not delivered well, or rather - it's hard to deliver, since it's mostly via radio dialogues and a few cutscenes. Most of the players seem to just care about the point-and-shoot aspect in this game, almost no one pays attention what actually happens around them, they just see stuff to shoot. Played it with a lot of friends, none seemed to actually catch on what's happening. So I am putting this in a neutral zone, rather than a flaw since both sides are to blame ______________________________________________ Graphics: [b]7.5/10[/b] Gameplay: [b]8/10[/b] Singleplayer: [b]-[/b] Multiplayer (with friends): [b]9/10[/b] Multiplayer (with randoms/bots): [b]3/10[/b] Soundtrack: [b]4/10[/b] Optimization: [b]7/10[/b] Replayability: [b]10/10[/b] [u]Overal: [b]7.5/10[/b][/u] ______________________________________________ Overally - The campaign can be played over and over again and you still can't get enough. It gives you this weird -drive- that pushes you forward, making you want to do all the achievements while keeping you feeling rewarded for even the smallest ones. Even if it's not the most popular zombie slasher game out there, it deserves a special place in my heart. [i]UPDATED: 21th of December 2021 ; Wording, Changed some points because they were fixed/patched[/i]