They can throw items to distract, crouch behind cars or furniture while zombies shamble past, and use the cover of darkness to sneak into locations unnoticed. Faced with degrading melee weapons and limited ammo, players are encouraged to use every trick in the book to avoid the attention of their foes. The Last Stand keeps its roguelike formula compelling by offering some great zombie-fighting gameplay. It’s a great way to constantly mix things up and ensure that the player is constantly experiencing new challenges. The player is always able to choose from a selection of three possible mutations, and new ones are added as milestones are hit. These perks can range from a camouflaging smell that makes it harder for zombies to detect the player, to suddenly-musclebound arms that crush zombies while slowing movement speed. Every time a segment becomes fully corrupted, the player receives a mutation - basically, a perk that compensates for the fact that they’ve just lost a big chunk of their maximum health. The volunteer’s health bar is broken up into segments, and their infection gradually consumes one segment at a time. This zombie virus is a central mechanic in The Last Stand. They then mark the cache they’ve collected so that it can be recovered by uninfected humans after the deteriorating volunteer has either succumbed to the virus or been torn to pieces. They’re given a car, bare minimum equipment, and told to go out and locate as many supplies as they can.
#Aftermath review horror series
The zombie apocalypse is a perfect thematic setting for a roguelite - what better way to feature scrappy survivors constantly scrounging for equipment, renewing hordes of enemies at every turn, and the risk of familiar, safe locations becoming sinister deathtraps? The Last Stand: Aftermath incorporates all of these things and then does one better - it narratively justifies the endless series of heroes common to rogues by positioning each one as an already-infected survivor who’s volunteering to go into the undead wasteland on a one-way trip.Īn isometric twin-stick shooter based around survival and crafting, The Last Stand: Aftermath has the player controlling a series of exiles - they’re human survivors who’ve been infected with the zombie virus, and are just days away from turning into flesh-hungry ghouls.
WTF Is that a speaker growing out of a mound of flesh? LOW Finding out the hard way that it’s possible to drown! HIGH Finding a machinegun just before I ran into an armor-clad behemoth.
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