The other advantage of using UE4 is that there is barely any visual lag when having to face down oncoming waves of zombies, or having to move your way through some of the thickest fog I have seen in video games since the old Silent Hill days on the PlayStation 1, except this was intentional and not a limit of the system. Going from the Source engine that powered Left 4 Dead 2, to the powerhouse that is Unreal Engine 4 really makes everything pop, splatter, and cover people in blood when facing down a huge group of zombies, or get hit by some of the special infected’s attacks. My favorite so far is a holdout defensive mission in a bar where you distract the ridden by playing “Black Betty” on a Jukebox while the survivors you saved in the previous 2 missions escape from Fort Hope.Ĭonsidering the last time, we experienced something like Back 4 Blood was over 12 years ago, so of course, Turtle Beach has upgraded the graphics engine that powers Back 4 Blood. Each level has a very specific set of conditions in order to complete before you can move on. Unlike Left 4 Dead, which basically forces you down tunnels over and over again going from saferoom to saferoom, Back 4 Blood changes the locations up a bit by changing up some levels a few times over where you might have to go past a saferoom first before you actually get the to location of where you might find some survivors, need to fortify a location, or find some cargo and take it to another area or to the saferoom to continue. Each cleaner character has its own unique set of stats and abilities that are used as a base for you to build upon.
You do meet up with a few other people during the main campaign, like an Army guy called Phillips, who treats you as nothing more than grunts who can do fetch quests and be a distraction to either find or help other people escape the area. You play as one of 8 “Cleaners” (Doc, Evangelo, Hoffman, Holly, Jim, Karlee, Walker, and “Mom”), aka people who are immune to the worms, and you go about either taking down the hordes of the mutated and ridden or do other tasks along the way. As usual, the Government kept this worm a secret until someone forgot to lock the jar lid and the worms got out, infecting the world’s population into what they are calling “ridden” (We know they are zombies, so that’s what I’ll call them) and “mutates”, special mutations that spawn a variety of different abilities like Reekers (Boomers), Ogres (Giant walking tanks the size of a mountain), Hockers (Spitters but with a more spider look), Tallboys in both Bruiser & Crusher variants (Charger), Hag (Witches), Stalkers (Hunters), and a few others I’ll leave as a surprise. All we know, thanks to a campaign trailer, is that some idiots discovered a worm that can take over, control, and mutate the human body. We would only recommend doing this if you are serious about the game’s PvP mode Swarm, though.Much like Left 4 Dead, Back 4 Blood doesn’t really have a story to go with it. If, for whatever reason, you only want to play with teammates on the same platform as you, you can turn it off. In addition, cross-gen crossplay is available for players on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One so those players are not be left out of the slaying fun.īy default, crossplay functionality is turned on. As a result, PC, PlayStation, and Xbox players will all be able to group up together to take on the hordes of Ridden. Yes, Back 4 Blood supports crossplay between all platforms it is on. Related: Does Back 4 Blood have split-screen? Does Back 4 Blood have crossplay? With this in mind, does Back 4 Blood support crossplay? With that said, sometimes, that person you trust most is on another platform.
Therefore, you must have someone you can trust at your back.
It sounds like a nice relaxing time, right? Like Left 4 Dead, Back 4 Blood relies on teamwork between you and the other players in the game. Back 4 Blood is all about getting together with other people and fighting for your life against the hordes of Ridden trying to add you to their zombified-like army.