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hello welcome to a brand-new episode of we play I'm joy Davidson here with a look at state of decay for the Xbox 360 alright so state of decay is kind of a strange game this title is being developed or I guess it's out now even though I'm talking about being developed it was developed by undead labs and published by Microsoft Studios it is currently an xbox live arcade exclusive however it will be hitting the PC platform by way of the steam marketplace at a to be announced date the the dev team hasn't really said when they're gonna be doing that they've just have said that they are doing it this is a really interesting title it it basically just earned the dubious claim of being the fastest selling Xbox Live Arcade original game ever it's been out since June 5th and on the day of recording I believe it's the 18th I don't know yes maybe unless my watch is wrong it's the 18th it has sold over 550,000 copies for an Xbox Live Arcade original game that's huge and and I mean if you're looking at it and I don't mean to slam the developers right away but it's kind of an ugly game right like this isn't exactly a gorgeous very beautiful game it's it's it's really a downloadable title it was only 1,600 points 20 bucks its open-world a lot of people have kind of been comparing it to maybe like a GTA Dead Island kind of a mashup what's really interesting about this game and you won't see me do it but there's a whole lot of melee killing right there you switch between characters so this is one of the characters that you first start out with there's permanent death in this game and if this guy were to die a new character would take his place and I think up to where I am I'm very early on and I'm gonna explain exactly what I'm doing here in just a second but I think up to where I am I only have two characters found I've maybe played it for like an hour and 15 minutes or so and and I've spent that time kind of exploring but essentially what I'm doing right now one of my buddies is sick at a safe spot which which you saw me leaving at the onset of this clip and I am making my way somewhere to find medicine I don't get to all that in this 10-minute span as I'm running from this zombie but what you will see me do right now is climb in this tower for a good cool hop climb this tower for a good vantage point scout out the area and and I'll see I'll earn like a sidequest in the process and I'm actually going to go help some survivors what you'll also see in this and this little clip is my first time firing a gun in this game so far so good it's definitely a little bit rough not everything about state of decay works very well it certainly doesn't stand up next to other more polished triple-a there's air quotes around triple-a experiences on the Xbox Live Arcade but what I'm seeing of it so far is a very wide varied and and and fun package so watch patrol around the environment for just a second you'll see all the things that I'm scouting out and then after I hop down the ladder I'll be back to talk more gotcha there we go hey what's that looks like a vet's office or something oh yeah dr. gallery's playing what about it well antibiotics for dogs aren't any different than antibiotics for people and it looks like no one's broken in sounds like it's worth checking out hang on I got a transmission coming in I think we've had enough of being on our own we'd love to join you if you'll have us you might want to go check it out yes I will go check it out so instead of going to get those medicine supplies medical supplies whatever words spelling I'm actually going to try and track down these survivors so here you'll see me make my way over to that house where they're hiding out and talk them into joining me which this is probably one of the rougher elements of this game talking someone into joining you is literally just pressing a button and inside a proud there's no there's no convincing element there's no you arguing for their trust as you would maybe in a game like Walking Dead for instance or you know don't expect intense dialogue options is basically driving that here as I kill another zombie one thing that I do get from this game right away is that battling hordes of zombies on your own not such a good idea if there are one or two of them around you maybe even three you'll be okay there's a little bit of a dodging mechanic and the melee itself is fast enough where as long as you have plenty of stamina which that's that blue bar on the left the red bar on the right of my mini-map is health if you have enough stamina you're okay if you don't have enough stamina and if you've been out for a while if you find a group of zombies I mean even like two of them problematic time to run away there is a sneaking element in this game which you won't really see me get into here but for the most part it's better to avoid fighting zombies does damage to your equipment so here you're seeing me talk to these survivors and I mean I'm just kinda standing here like wondering what to do all you do is walk up press Y and then there's a you should join us option and there with me that's it I was a little bit surprised by this I mean I'm used to kind of thinking that nice game survivors would need convincing right I mean if let's all pretend that it's the real zombie apocalypse right if some guy walks into your house after hearing a radio transmission you say we have supplies we're tired of being on our own he storms right in armed and he says you should join me so that's a really weird moment but you are gonna start to see from here on out some much more involves on be combat which actually will give you a better taste of what to expect what I don't do in this general and what I think is more core element to the experience of state of decay is fortification and scouting for supplies the weapons that I have on me are the result of hunting around a camp ground water doctor this is a city that I'm in getting these weapons is essential you're gonna see this weapon that I have now break here a little bit which they aim terribly so it's not as if having a gun is going to win the game for you you have very few bullets and since ammunition is scarce kind of wonder why in a way weaponry but mainly weapons breaks you only have a certain number of inventory slots to work with so that's where the survival horror element of this game comes into play I can't speak to the later half of the experience as maybe it's not too hard to survive you know maybe you'll get overpowered weapons that kind of make things a lot easier but for the here and now fighting zombies with what's on me it's a little bit difficult so just watch me whip out my gun here in just a second and you'll see me take on a smallish zombie horde and then I will be back and that's it as I beat that last group of zombies and you got to see my terrible shooting abilities this has been state of decay it's available for the Xbox 360 over Xbox Live Arcade stuned to hit the PC 20 bucks maybe that's a little steep maybe not if the package is as good as it seems it should be well worth your time and money I'm Joey Davidson from TechnoBuffalo thank you guys for watching and we'll see you next time