He also talks too much, chuntering to himself vindictively about nearby objectives and other characters as you lope through the undergrowth. his honourable qualms about killing women) that bigger studios have been cranking out since The Last of Us. These involve quests to pick lavender, and dialogue lines such as “what’s a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?”.ĭeacon isn’t the least likeable hero you’ve ever taken charge of, but he’s much the same mix of unearned gravitas and watered-down chauvinism (e.g. When one such oddjob goes awry, he’s forced to call in old favours and get more involved with the game’s four human settlements, building towards some predictable revelations as to the zombie plague’s origin.Īs you go about thawing Deacon’s outlaw reserve, making new allies and rekindling friendships/grudges, you’re also put through semi-playable flashbacks to his and Sarah’s courtship. Now shacked up in an old watchtower with brother-in-arms Boozer, Deacon operates on the fringes of what society remains, hunting down marauders and rescuing the odd runaway.
One is Deacon himself, another of gaming’s weaponised male mourners, as morose and bloodthirsty as his lost wife Sarah was sunny and wholesome. Sadly, a number of things get in the way. I think there’s an intriguing tale to weave around that bike, a melancholy postmodern Western in the tradition of Cormac McCarthy, with drive-by flashes of older counterculture films like Easy Rider. When you get lost and run out of juice – easily done till you sponge away the map’s fog of war, and trade up to a larger tank – there’s the furtive enjoyment and admittedly, mild frustration of rolling the bike to the nearest safe point amid the incessant yowling of unseen, roaming infected. You’ll also need to keep it fed, either rolling up to a pump at a long-deserted gas station or plucking a jerrycan from the rubble (which may then serve as a tossable firebomb, to be popped with a slow-motion pistol shot). In the course of a game you’ll develop a workmanlike intimacy with it, buying new parts such as cowls for greater resilience, a faster engine and an ammo box for mid-mission refills.
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