STATE OF DECAY :XBL Launch June 5th - PC later...MMO even later.

DeaconX

source: http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/06/03/state-of-decay-gets-june-5th-release-date/

"While the news of State of Decay's release date was leaked out recently, today we have official confirmation. Undead Labs' maiden game will be coming to Xbox Live Arcade on Wednesday, June 5th.

Founder Jeff Strain took to the official blog a couple of days ago to talk about the process of deciding upon and cementing a release date. "After that, our job is not done," he wrote. "We have a PC build of the game to finish and deliver. We will certainly want to fix a few bugs that slipped through (we saw a few in the video streams today that we jumped on immediately). And we have super secret plans for a few other treats to roll out in the future that Sanya would shoot me for even mentioning."

So while it's not the MMO that will hopefully be forthcoming, it is set in the same world and it made a great showing at last year's PAX Prime."

 

Some gameplay full of info:

IGN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SxRCZS86nE

Polygon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apJgU-pc2Is

 

Game seems pretty decent - really like the whole concept of building your community up from survivors you find/rescue and take in, which makes the game a little harder at the same time as you now have more people to take care of... but also more people to send out to scout and such.

Also love that you can switch between survivors as your characters to get tired/wounded and can even perma-die.

It definitely has potential, especially if they will add the co-op feature they're hoping to later on.

 

DeaconX

Game is out today - live stream here:

 

http://www.twitch.tv/misterxbob

Mikeha

Been following this game for a long time and will be getting it very soon.

DeaconX

Originally posted by Mannish
Been following this game for a long time and will be getting it very soon.

I'm sort of jealous - I'll have to wait for the PC version. Have fun

 

Seems the longer you play, the more layers of depth you discover about the game.

DeaconX

http://www.gametrailers.com/side-mission/54029/xblas-state-of-decay-breaks-250000-copies-in-first-48-hours

 

XBLA’s State of Decay Breaks 250,000 Copies in First 48 Hours