Zombicide: Tactics & Shotguns

This was an enjoyable game, no technical issues. Compatible w older devices. DLC characters must be added after creating an account - not ideal - yet the characters did make the game more fun. Too bad there's not another map to continue the story w leveled up characters. I'd pay another $5 for a new map and persistent storyline.

I was with you until “Register an account for this character,” “Pay $2.99 for that character,” “Buy upgrade currency after we’ve strung you along for four levels.”

Also, this game does not follow board game LoS rules for alleys inside buildings. The game treats them like indoor locations, so I can’t shoot past one with a rifle

This game is amazing! I absolutely love it. You don’t need to buy the characters, just play smart. I’ve beaten it twice and wish I could start a new (different) campaign!

Let me know when they add fast/instant animations

I paid the cost for the app and I dashed through all the levels in 4-5 days. Then...nothing. Games over. All you can do is grind to keep upgrading, but the amount you need to upgrade one character could take 2-3 hours of grinding. For what? So you can play the same levels you’ve already mastered? No difficulty levels. Nothing. Then I bought some DLC characters thinking they might open new areas. Nope. Then I decided to start over with one of the DLC characters and the UI freezes after you give Rauol the command to fire on a few zombies in the first level. I loved this game while I was playing it and I love the board game but this version burns out fast and is really buggy. Contacted support, not even a ‘we’ll get back to you soon’ email.

Good adaptation, but after a few missions it became way too easy. I never bought any characters, but I did sign into asmodee to get one extra character for free. He ended up being by far the most powerful character. Please add more missions, maybe difficulty selection, ability to search in any room, and incorporate more aspects of the board game to make it a little more challenging (eg only certain weapons can kill fatties...etc) Overall nice job; the game was fun

I gave Zombicide 4 stars, because it is fun to play, but it has some glaring omissions: [1] Lack of rules and other information. Unlike pretty much every other adaptation of a board game that I’ve played, it has no rule book, and other than a brief tutorial at the beginning, offers very little in the way of info — especially what the icons mean. [2] No options. Other than music and sound effects volume, there is a complete lack of game options, including badly needed options like Auto Zoom on/off and Always Skip Zombie Spawn Animation on/off. There are also quite a few frustrating things about the game (many of which are related to the 2 major omissions I mentioned above) : [1] The way it auto zooms in the map every time you do anything is extremely annoying. I zoom the map out, so I can actually see what’s going on enough to play the game, and then every time I move or attack, or if it changes characters, or ANYTHING ELSE HAPPENS, the map zooms back in. I suppose some people may prefer this, but surely there could be an option. [2.1] I can’t figure out what some of the icons mean or how some aspects of the game work. I *think* the exclamation flag beside a weapon means there’s a better weapon available, but sometimes none of the other weapons are as good as the one I have selected (or else having a “better” weapon is pointless, because if they’re not dual-wield, and the “best” weapon for your off-hand is the same type as your main-hand, how does that benefit you?). Likewise, trying to find out which weapons can be upgraded (and how far) is very confusing. A small note in the rules (and actually *having* rules) would fix this. [2.2] I figured out that the background colours show if a weapon is Common or Uncommon, and that an Uncommon weapon of the same level is better, but it wasn’t obvious. And I *think* I’ve sort of figured out if a weapon can be upgraded once or more than once (if the details show a number and a padlock, I think it can be upgraded to that level and some number of levels beyond that, and I think no padlock means the next level is as far as it can be upgraded). Again, having rules would fix this. [2.3] Some of the information is available in strange or limited ways. For example, you can upgrade a weapon from the Character page of the character who is wielding it, but you can’t see whether or not it can be upgraded more than once, without going back to the Weapons section and tapping the weapon there. For some reason, this information is not shown on the weapon card itself and/or the detailed weapon info. Likewise, you can only view the detailed weapon info for equipped weapons on the Character’s page. Why? Putting the “info” icon on the weapon cards wherever they’re displayed (especially when choosing from the list of weapons to equip) would eliminate this problem and make it much easier to decide which weapon to use. Having to equip each weapon in order to see its details is *very* annoying (and unnecessary). [3] This game definitely needs an Options section. In addition to being able to keep the map zoomed out (ie. turn off Auto Zoom), it would be nice if I could always skip the Zombie Spawn Animation, instead of having to click “skip” every single time (and if I don’t do it fast enough, the map scrolls around and I have to try to get it back where I had it). I realise some players probably prefer the current behaviour, which is why I suggest having options for them. It would also be nice to have an Auto Repeat Attack on/off option. Many times I try to scroll the screen after an attack and it rolls the attack dice instead. It would be useful to have an option to prevent that next attack roll from popping up automatically. Another useful option would be Auto Scroll on/off (although Auto Zoom on/off and Always Skip Spawn Animation are *way* more important). I don’t really need to see zombies moving on the other side of the map. I’d much rather move the map around myself, to see what I want to see. There are several other more minor improvements that could be made, but they’re far less important (and this is already a lengthy list), so I won’t go into them here. Zombicide really is a good game, and I have fun playing it (in spite of the annoyances and frustrations), but with a few additions (primarily Rules/info and Options), it could be a great game!

Not great. Not bad. It is a little run through a zombicide story. Once you do the initial missions, you can replay at your current level and gained items. I breeze through it now and it has no challenge. I do it once in a great while for something to do until Zombicide 2nd Edition arrives. If we get more chapters, varying/scaling difficulty, and more interesting missions then my opinion would change.

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