What is it?: A zombie survival RPG with a focus on physical VR combat and player choices. The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners Review – The Facts
Its heft gives the game a dynamic intensity managing a horde of zombies isn’t just about maintaining weapon durability and ammo but also your own physical exertion (though the game does have an annoying if necessary in-game stamina meter) and spatial awareness. Saints & Sinners never lets you believe you’re controlling two weightless, magic hands that can pass through walls and objects or decapitate the undead with a lazy flick of the wrist. Healing by wrapping a bandage around your arm, meanwhile, or whacking through boards with the end of the rifle both feel spot on, as does climbing ruins and rifling through the positional UI.įine-tuning this must have taken longer than I care to think about, but the work was more than worth it. This goes beyond just the array of knives and spiked baseball bats rather than take potshots from afar it’s often better to grab a walker’s head, wrestle with it to find an open patch behind the armor (if it’s wearing any) and fire a pistol at point-blank range. It requires a sense of force and direction that, if done correctly, will be met with authentic (and often wince-inducing) impact. In Saints & Sinners, every thrust of a screwdriver or swing of a pistol butt must be made with intent. Perhaps it’s that lethally on-point melee system, an industry-best blend of convincing physics and sickly smooth head-stabbing. Your 15+ hour scuffle through the streets of New Orleans, now bolstered by two generous content updates, is as tense and entertaining as ever. How, amongst this putrid stench, is The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners still such a breath of fresh air?īecause, even nearly two years on from launch, Skydance’s VR survival game remains exactly that. Surely, amongst the sea of rotting brands and stink of decaying creativity, we’ve all at least once proclaimed: “Please, no more zombie games.” The mere sight of the shuffling hordes of undead software is enough to make one sick. They devour our shooters, chomp at the remains of survival RPGs and even infect our VR experiences. They’re in our movies, TV shows and comic books but, by god, are they in our games.
Our original review was published on January 28, 2020. Note: This is an updated review based on The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners after its second free content update, Aftershocks. Read on for our 2021 The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners review! With two big updates under its belt, there’s never been a better time to get into The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners.
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