State of Decay plays like a potent distillation of the kind of compulsive side questing featured in Ubisoft Montreal’s Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry series. Fortunately, its impressively broad, open-world approach to the fall of civilization earns the game a level of distinction, setting it apart from its peers. Yet this is exactly what Undead Labs has set out to do with its post-apocalyptic survival simulator, State of Decay. After multiple entries to series like Resident Evil, Dead Rising, Left 4 Dead, and The Walking Dead, any developer attempting to impress players with another zombie-centric videogame has their work cut out for them.
