State of Decay: Breakdown raises an important question: does downloadable content still count as content when it takes out more content than it adds? After all, this is still Trumbull Valley as we left it back in June, but here there are no squabbles with military hard-asses or heroic attempts to overcome blocked mountain passages. This, rather, is a bleak scramble for survival, and one in which the zombies are all but guaranteed to win.
In short, it’s the sandbox so many of us wanted back in the early days of summer. Though bootable as a separate experience from the main narrative, it’s meant to address the perception that there was little left to do once the trajectory of the story cut off progression, and thus the potential for replay, aside from milking the last save file. But this addition, priced at almost half the cost of the full game, adds no new enemies or locations; instead, it guts the story completely aside from side missions.
This, rather, is a bleak scramble for survival, and one in which the zombies are all but guaranteed to win.
Breakdown is an apt title. The core experience involve…