More on that in the ‘Immersion’ section below. I only wish the game had the budget to be a game at the grandiosity of Fallout, with its numerous intertwining stories and large, open-world environment, although I’m happy Saints & Sinners didn’t overextend itself. No matter how hard you suck up to either of the game’s dueling forces, you won’t find yourself becoming the king of your own gang. Photo by Road to VRĪnd there is a singular storyline to follow with a few choices along the way, but not much in the way of truly world-shifting decisions to make.
I like these sorts of holster systems, although you’ll need some muscle memory to make sure you’re not accidentally tossing away an important weapon willy-nilly. On your right shoulder is a large weapon, and on your left and right hips are holsters for knives and pistols. Note: reaching your controller over your left shoulder pulls out your backpack. While you can make it to the end of the game even the most basic starter equipment, chasing down even cooler weapons had me running around and rifling through drawers outside of the main storyline for a good amount of time. If you want to build ancillary bad-ass weapons like assault rifles or machetes, you’ll need to grind it out a little bit for the raw material. Like in the many of the beloved RPG titles from Bethesda such as Skyrim and the Fallout series, you need to be smart about what stuff you put into your finite backpack. Meta Says New Prototype Will Put Its Cutting-edge R&D in a Market-viable HeadsetĪnd in practice, this places you right on the edge of failure at nearly every turn.
It’s a clever, anxiety-ridden way of making you asses things quickly. The latter option can be useful if you died close to the dedicated starting area, but you’ll be stepping out from there empty-handed if it’s deep in the level, you can basically kiss it goodbye at that point. Image courtesy Sundance InteractiveĮscape the level before the clock runs out, or you’ll be overrun by a basically unsurvivable horde, forcing you to either start the level over entirely fresh or alternatively restart the level with your accumulated cache where you last died. And it’s not like there’s a wristwatch on your arm that tells you when to leave because the sun will go down and zombies will rush in to chase you through the streets until you collapse of exhaustion. Killing zombies one at a time is easy, but more than three and you better have your head on straight and your supplies in order. It’s not a very tough balancing act, provided you’re not overwhelmed by a pack of shambolic brain-eating monsters, which is usually the case. Similarly, getting infected from z-bites puts a temporary cap on your max health until you take medicine. Getting physical like sprinting and using melee weapons kills your stamina and creates hunger, which additionally puts a temporary cap on your max stamina until you eat something wholesome-not that garbage you find in the NOLA wasteland, only home-made fixins. Once you leave your base, you have both a stamina and health bar that needs constant attention. A few cork boards back at your base present you with recipes that you can research and then craft by pushing a single ‘build’ button. To help infect you with this inescapable existential angst, the game is built on a few key elements: you need to scrounge for basic supplies, and craft those into useful items to help you throughout your successive hops across the map. With only a few caveats, it is a remarkably fun (and frightening) virtual safari through a gang and zombie-infested New Orleans, and one you can easily slip into for hours of zombie-ganking carnage at a time. Regardless of whether that supposed premise was Skydance’s intended goal or not, that’s exactly how I feel about Saints & Sinners: morally compromised from no-win scenarios, mentally fatigued from a constant barrage of the undead, and demoralized from grasping at what little detritus I can scrounge up along the way in a grey, unforgiving world.
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The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners Details:Īvailable On: Steam (Index, Vive, Rift, Windows MR), Oculus Store (Rift) And I’m convinced the game’s creators started with a pretty simple premise and built everything with that in mind: ‘how to make the player feel insanely distressed in literally every conceivable way’. To put it bluntly, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is genuinely terrifying.
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