Back 4 Blood in Preview: What reveals the alpha over the Left 4 Dead-Quasi

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Zombie shooter is now like sand by the sea: started with Zombies from the Call of Duty series up to World was z . But that was not always so! Although the undead of modern bags had at the latest since Resident Evil their place in the game landscape, but they learned a new boost, however, they learned by the 2008 published Left 4 Dead .

The Koop Shooter demonstrated impressively like dense game fun and bare panic with friends at each other. But after the second part released in 2009, it was quiet around Left 4 Dead . Until rumors about a possible successor, nothing came to the outside.

But that should change now: With Back 4 Blood a game is in the starting blocks, which is so close to the original that Valve may look at twice. No wonder, finally, with Turtle Rock Studios ( Evolve ) the developer of the first part behind the game. The recently presented PC-Alpha version already made one clear: Back 4 Blood could close the gap that is after Left 4 Dead 2 in the genre.

Four against the Horde

Expects Back 4 Blood no spraying story as in The Last of Us Part 2 . In this coop shooter, everything revolves around action and around the hectic coop hangat on zombies. At the beginning of the game, you chooses one of eight cleaners, with which they are approaching against the so-called Ridden. The Cleaners differ in their equipment and also in their skills.

Walker, for example, is a former soldier and obtains about an accuracy bonus on precise hits. In addition, he basically owns more life energy and additional storage space for ammunition. As a second weapon he leads a Glock 23 with him. He thus acts as a tank character if you want to pull such comparison in a zombie shooter like back 4 blood . Hoffman, on the other hand, relies on technology and can lead, for example, an additional object and has a higher opportunity to find additional ammunition.

All character have a whole range of different perks and properties that they settle from each other. Walker, for example, is just awarded for the entry point, Holly and her with nails occupied baseball rackets are class in melee and Hoffman requires a little practice to play his skills.

Zombies as far as the eye can see!

The actual missionary course is identical to Left 4 Dead . You start in a protective dream. Your task is to survive the level lying in front of you as unscathedly as possible and to get to the exit. Before it starts, but you can recently shop on a munition ski equipment such as Medi kits, pill, associations or upgrades for the ammunition stock. The necessary copper coins can be found in the fields - sometimes hidden, once as item drops by completed opponents.

The Arsenal proves to be unspectacular: shotgun, assault rifles, pistols and grenades or Molotov cocktails are available. Added to this are impact tools such as axes, baseballs or machets as secondary weapons. There are also some support objects such as a tool set for the silent break alarm-secured doors. Sounds negative, but can be extremely helpful on key points. Finally, an alarm automatically triggers a horde and thus brings the whole group in danger.

Even in the opponent design, Turtle Rock Studios is traditionally conscious. In addition to commercially available zombies ... Uh, Ridden we also meet on heavy armored Undead in Polizseimontur. In addition, there are great journeymen like the Bruiser, who hurls us through the air with his club arm through the air or a thick mutant, who spit us with green soup and attracts such a horde on us. From the Witch was short of the Snitcher , which informs his undead friends about the arrival of the Cleaner. Really new is the Oger - a tank variation. This chunk is tremendous and already fearful for the first meeting.

with cards for victory

For variety, similar to Left 4 Dead the so-called Game Director ensures. This function descends certain elements such as the type of dipping zombies or the distribution of weapons before each match. In the trample, this did not really fell up and many events such as bird swarms, which haze hordes or also the awakening of the OGER remained tied to certain points within the levels.

But that's complaining at a high level, because Back 4 Blood scores with a wonderfully bloody battles, rectilinear action and successful teamwork. The degree of difficulty was still improving in the alpha and so the balance was noticeably fluctuated between fair and oh my god, these are many zombies . For the game, the juicy hit feedback as well as the successful map design speak. Technically, however, there is certainly air up.

For fresh wind also ensures a playing card system, with your character with Perks and skills, but also the corruption - so the Ridden - influences. That's why we had, for example, armored zombies in one of our prer hours. At the beginning of each round we first receive three cards for our deck and can choose from several sheets.

Here are partly very strong Perks: For Holly, for example, we get a health upgrade with each Melee kill or get the option for other characters to turn the normal blow into a knife attack. The cards influence both our character as well as the teamwork, for example, by replenishing our life energy, if we revive a fallen fellow.

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Back 4 Blood: Gameplay shows plenty of zombie action from the closed-alpha

New cards can be found hidden in the levels themselves, but also receives them as a bonus after failed trials. Thus, in the course of a campaign, you increasingly evaluates your character and thus warms up for the steadily growing challenges. The card system is surprisingly well in the overall context, but you have to wait here how the cards will affect the game balance in the long term.

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