{"id":3844,"date":"2021-10-12T01:19:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T01:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-geeks.com\/the-walking-dead-onslaught-review-run-gun-scrounge-grind\/"},"modified":"2021-10-14T00:03:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T00:03:37","slug":"the-walking-dead-onslaught-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-geeks.com\/the-walking-dead-onslaught-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Walking Dead Onslaught Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Walking Dead Onslaught is a VR game that takes place in the world of AMC\u2019s hit show, The Walking Dead. Players can choose to play as one of five characters and embark on an adventure with different objectives and gameplay styles.<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\nThe Walking Dead Onslaught\u00a0is this year\u2019s second Walking Dead franchise game for VR, following the release of the The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners (2020)\u00a0in January. Unlike its scrappy RPG-style older sibling, Onslaught\u00a0does away with dark and gloomy trepidation of entering a room halfcocked, instead replacing it with a constant pressure to run, gun, and scrounge your way through levels to an oftentimes ineffectual conclusion.<\/p>\n<h4>Details about The Walking Dead\u2019s Onslaught:<\/h4>\nSurvios Reviewed on: Oculus Quest (via Link),<\/p>\nOculus Rift Available on: Oculus PC, SteamVR, PSVR<\/p>\nRelease Date: September 29th, 2020<\/p>\nPrice: $30<\/p>\nDeveloper: Survios<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<h3>Gameplay<\/h3>\nAfter the third season, I stopped watching AMC\u2019s The Walking Dead, which, for me, was when the show ceased being about surviving zombies and instead became a zombie in its own right. It plodded along in a manner that made me wonder where the heck this was all headed.<\/p>\nWhatever your degree of fandom, there are just a few things you need to know to succeed in The Walking Dead Onslaught: explore every building carefully for supplies, have a balanced loadout with at least one edged weapon, and be sure to aim the shooty portion of the pistol towards the zombie\u2019s head. And then flee.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imagegod.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/waling-dead-onslaught-crossbow.jpg\" alt=\"waling-dead-onslaught-crossbow\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\nYou won\u2019t need to know where you\u2019re going or what to do, and there won\u2019t be any riddles to solve along the way. Until the credits roll, just aim down the sights, fire, reload, and escape from the continuously advancing red fog of zombies behind you. The red fog functions similarly to a battle royale zone, draining your health if it catches up to you, providing you with all the incentive you\u2019ll need to get to the finish line.<\/p>\nThere are no stamina, thirst, or hunger bars to worry about here (which isn\u2019t a bad thing), so it\u2019s all about moving quickly through each level\u2019s one-way snake-like path\u2014but not so quickly that you miss the inexplicably massive amounts of food, wood, metal scraps, adhesives, and other items that either help you upgrade weapons or unlock the next bit of story.<\/p>\nThe game is split into two sections: Daryl, who is played by Norman Reedus again, has a tale to tell about attempting to rescue a little girl. To reach the end of Daryl\u2019s narrative arc, you must complete a half-dozen levels as him. It took me around three hours to go through Daryl\u2019s section alone, but you aren\u2019t given the freedom to go through each chapter at your leisure.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imagegod.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/walking-dead-daryl.jpg\" alt=\"walking-dead-daryl\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\nYou need to lure survivors to your encampment for some reason, which you accomplish by scavenging for food throughout a map that unlocks new zones in a sequential order when you fulfill a survivor number criteria. This essentially binds you to completing scavenging tasks in order to unlock Daryl\u2019s narrative, which then sends you back to doing scavenging missions. Rinse and repeat as needed.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imagegod.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/walking-dead-base.jpg\" alt=\"walking-dead-base\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\nIt all seemed a little like the game was slapping on a pointless feature to pad out the duration of the game. You\u2019re compelled to do these tasks, which have no purpose other than to collect things, and then improve your weaponry, health, and supply retrieving abilities for your own benefit.<\/p>\nDaryl\u2019s tale was intriguing, and it served as a welcome diversion from the grind, but I found myself mindlessly repeating the same scavenging levels over and again in order to get enough supplies to advance to the next chapter. These tasks soon became more of a nuisance than a genuine opportunity to interact with the game.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imagegod.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/walking-dead-red-fog.jpg\" alt=\"walking-dead-red-fog\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\nThat\u2019s not to say that shooting a swarm of walkers (all of whom move slowly until they\u2019re within striking distance) and seeing the toughest undead fall isn\u2019t entertaining. During scavenging missions, the relentless pressure of an encircling zombie horde keeps you on your toes, never allowing you enough time to explore the byways for anything. It\u2019s a lot of fun stabbing, chopping, blasting, and moving the physics-based enemies about.<\/p>\nI also enjoyed that each level of the game, including narrative and scavenging missions, can be played on low, medium, or high difficulty levels, but the quantity of things you discover diminishes as the difficulty increases. Onslaught accomplishes these goals well, but I believe it would benefit from a bigger, more interesting narrative and much less supply grinding.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imagegod.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/walking-dead-inventory.jpg\" alt=\"walking-dead-inventory\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\nIn terms of the game\u2019s adversaries, the sluggish walking zombies in Onslaught don\u2019t have a lot of functional variety. Later through the game, you\u2019ll encounter armored zombies dressed in riot gear or wearing spikes that add to the area\u2019s lethality, but the level is primarily filled with civilian walkers who can be killed with a single knife plunge to the head. If you have enough ammunition and aim for the head, all of the bullet sponges will ultimately lurch their final step.<\/p>\nOverall, Daryl\u2019s narrative and the scavenging tasks took me around seven hours to finish. You can always go back in after the credits roll and improve every weapon, melee and gun alike, but I didn\u2019t see the point because I\u2019d be replaying all of the same missions with the only real difference being where critical things are placed.<\/p>\n<h3>Immersion<\/h3>\nOnslaught not only misses the target by being too simple and grindy, but it also misses the mark in the Immersion portion by being much too predictable.<\/p>\nThe majority of level design revolves on a one-way trudge through a destroyed town, which all begins to feel the same after about an hour. It\u2019s a pity, since the levels\u2019 aesthetic diversity is really very impressive. Although you won\u2019t pause to smell the roses, it\u2019s obvious that a lot of effort went into making each level seem distinct in its destruction by the zombie apocalypse.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imagegod.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/walking-dead-baddies.jpg\" alt=\"walking-dead-baddies\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\nUnfortunately, there is no object interaction since your dominant hand is bound to your weapon until you change it. Instead than really lifting things up, force grab is employed. Those aren\u2019t terrible things in and of themselves, but the removal of the ability to touch anything in your hands limits user immersion.<\/p>\nConsidering Norman Reedus was the sole original performer in the game, both character design and voice performance are very impressive. When characters talk, which only occurs when you\u2019re back at base, there\u2019s a little of an uncanny valley effect, but you don\u2019t see another human being very frequently in the majority of the game, so it\u2019s largely a non-issue. The designs are very well-crafted, despite the fact that zombies are practically identical, with the only difference being their armor level.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imagegod.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/walking-dead-armor.jpg\" alt=\"walking-dead-armor\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\nThe innovative usage of positional audio by Onslaught is also noteworthy. Keep an ear out for the foggy horde closing in behind you, free-roaming zombies lurking about the level, and important supply caches that sound like a faint radio fizzle as you get close to them.<\/p>\nThe game\u2019s UI also remains out of the way, which is a great addition that allows you to interact with the zombies more smoothly. You may also turn the UI entirely off in the settings, but you might not notice it since it hides in the top and bottom registers of the screen most of the time.<\/p>\n<h3>Comfort<\/h3>\nSurvios, the game\u2019s creators, are seasoned veterans when it comes to VR comfort design. Teleport, snap turn, smooth turning, head or hand-relative forward motion, and even the arm-swinging technique seen in Creed: Rise to Glory (2018) and Sprint Vector are among the locomotion choices available (2017).<\/p>\nAll of this, coupled with a well-researched use of particle effects to keep you grounded as you go, gives you a broad range of choices to choose from, depending on your degree of comfort.<\/p>\nThrough an automated calibration procedure, you may play both sitting and standing. There\u2019s also an in-game recalibration option if you need to go between standing and sitting for any reason.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<h4>Related Tags<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>walking dead onslaught controls<\/li>\n<li>walking dead: saints and sinners comfort<\/li>\n<li>walking dead: saints and sinners review<\/li>\n<li>before you buy saints and sinners<\/li>\n<li>can you play walking dead: saints and sinners sitting down<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Walking Dead Onslaught is a VR game that takes place in the world of AMC\u2019s hit show, The Walking Dead. Players can choose to play as one of five characters and embark on an adventure with different objectives and gameplay styles. The Walking Dead Onslaught\u00a0is this year\u2019s second Walking Dead franchise game for VR, following the release of the The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners (2020)\u00a0in January. Unlike its scrappy RPG-style older sibling, Onslaught\u00a0does away with dark and gloomy trepidation of entering a room halfcocked, instead replacing it with a constant pressure to run, gun, and scrounge your way <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-geeks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-geeks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-geeks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-geeks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-geeks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vr-geeks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3857,"href":"https:\/\/vr-geeks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844\/revisions\/3857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-geeks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-geeks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-geeks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-geeks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}