ZombiU’s London is all cockneys, royals, fish and chips, and bob's your uncle, proving right away that nobody on the development team has actually bothered to visit and see what the place is all about. The UK has produced some of the most memorable stories to ever grace zombie fiction, so Ubisoft jumping into that setting and putting its own spin on things is a great idea in concept, but of course it bungles the execution. You play as a nameless person who is trying to survive in the London Underground weeks after a zombie apocalypse has reduced the city to ruin. Despite its flaws, it’s still a strange and oddly charming jaunt through a laughably cliched depiction of London. This conversion did a very good job of highlighting its other shortcomings too, with the hype of a new console release no longer protecting this fairly average shooter from scrutiny. It turns out that a port to PS4 and Xbox One only served to prove my point, with once tense moments of survival horror reduced down to goofy quick-time events and gameplay that no longer expressed an overbearing sense of anxiety.
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