There isn’t a ton known aboutState of Decay 3, other than it is in development. Developer Undead Labs gave the gaming public a nice tease last year, but there hasn’t been much info about what players might see in the third game of the series, but there’s been plenty of guessing onwhat changesState of Decay 3will bring. While conversations over what improvements are needed in the series are warranted, there’s also one aspect the developer needs to make sure and keep. The game needs to keep zombies front and center of the action.
Stating that a zombie-themed survival game needs to keep zombies at the forefront might seem like something that can go unsaid. However, there seems to be a pattern in this genre (and adjacent to it) where the walking corpses aren’t the real problem. They turn into something just short of scenery. Sure, if a player makes a really wrong move, they’ll get eaten. However, many stories like AMC’sThe Walking Deadshows humans are the real problem.State of Decay 3needs to avoid this scenario at all costs.
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The Monsters Should Be The Real Monsters
The pull to move the focus of a long-running zombie game or story to evil humans makes sense from a video game perspective. After a while, a player has ducked and jived enough undead that it starts feeling stale. On the other hand, when a player is going up against human enemies, there’s an expectation that those characters will have better AI. After all, if they were real humans, they’d be able to plot and plan. Despite this fact,development forState of Decay 3has to avoid the lure and focus on the zombies.
It’s not even strictly survival zombie games that tend to wander off the point of the original story.Telltale’sThe Walking Deadseriesstarted off with its focus in the right direction, as did the show, but eventually the central villains changed from cannibalistic corpses to evil people. It turned into communities of humans fighting against each other, while the same thing more or less started happening in in pastSoDgames to some degree. As such, it’s understandable to worry about a potential “battle between communities of humans” plot point.
Signs For Hope In State of Decay 3
Again, there still isn’t much known about just whatState of Decay 3is going to offer. However, the reveal trailer might have hinted that not only is the focus going to be zombies and the plague that’s wiped out so much of the world, but the focus could be a change in the virus itself. The trailer showed a survivor out hunting, only to run across what appears to be a zombified dear. That could mean there are going to be enough challenges in the world that there’s no reason to go back to the “humans are the real monsters” trope.
Now that the calendar has shifted to 2021, Undead Labs might be gearing up to share some more details on things like aState of Decay 3release date. Hopefully, whatever details are shared next will continue to point to a focus on the zombie threat, rather than attempting to minimize the danger of the walking dead.
State of Decay 3is in development for PC and Xbox Series X/S
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