There are several RPG-like builds that you can create with these cards. Some are basic, like giving your character “+5 health” for the rest of the run, but others get more complicated, like one that heals your character when an ally is incapacitated. Players have a wide variety of cards to choose from, though a deck can only contain 15 of them. These cards are then made into a deck and can be used during runs. You are rewarded with those for completing levels, and you spend them at Fort Hope to unlock cards via Supply Lines. Players earn cards in levels and by obtaining Supply Points. To encourage replayability and team-building, Back 4 Blood also features a card system. The game is split into multi-level runs that players have to fight through with only one continue, giving Back 4 Blood a roguelite flair.
While the experience inside levels is similar to what you’d expect from a Left 4 Dead successor, Back 4 Blood has plenty of unique ideas. Back 4 Blood shows that the cooperative shooter space still has room for innovation, and everything doesn’t have to be a Borderlands or Destiny clone.
Moments like that feel like a rarity in other games like this, but they’re frequent in Back 4 Blood and are an essential part of what makes the game special. In this state, I had to slowly watch myself move further and further away from my team while they fought their way across the lake to revive me.
I took it alone, leaving my teammates behind, but got incapacitated along the way. One particular level features a wooden ferry that you take across a river to a saferoom. Even in the more simple A-to-B levels, the situations you face are far from straightforward. In one level, you could be defending a diner from hordes of zombies, and the next, you could be loading and firing an anti-aircraft gun to destroy a mine. Games like that, such as Outriders, are still fun in their own right but get stale after several hours.īack 4 Bloodshakes its core formula up to avoid those same pitfalls. In modern cooperative games, most challenges boil down to defeating enemies with increasingly larger health bars while getting from point A to point B. WB Gamesīack 4 Blood’s clever level design creates distinct moments in every level that ensure repeated runs don’t get stale. Up to four players can team up in Back 4 Blood’s cooperative campaign. You’re playing for the stories you create by cooperating with your fellow players. The characters never evolve beyond spewing cheeky one-liners, and the story is derivative and basic.īut you’re not playing Back 4 Blood for the narrative.
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After being dormant for some time, the undead hordes returned in full force. Cleaning Houseīack 4 Blood features a fairly barebones narrative about a team of quirky infection-immune “Cleaners” uniting to fight the Ridden. We’ve waited for a third Left 4 Dead for years, and while Turtle Rock’s latest goes by a different name and has some very unique features that live up to the high standards Left 4 Dead set, making it one of the best cooperative video games of 2021. It was the most exhilarating moment I’ve had in a video game all year, and it’s one of many that Back 4 Blood has to offer.īack 4 Blood is a spiritual successor to classic zombie shooter Left 4 Dead. It was now up to them to finish the fight.Īfter an intense chase that took my teammate and a horde of Ridden (the game’s name for zombies) around almost the whole map, they were able to circle around the horde, enter the saferoom, and finish the level. I was knocked down just as my ally came back from the brink of death. Tallboys and Spitters attacked my crouched body. The coast looked clear at first, but suddenly some powerful enemies flanked me as the animation was finishing. Rather than end the level, I instead crouched down to revive my teammate. After claiming the hand, I was the last one standing. My team of four zombie-killers had to recover the hand of a dead soldier to unlock a saferoom where we might survive the night. Back 4 Blood has the best water-cooler moments of any game released in 2021.
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