The story itself is vague and uninspired, and the characters range from being one note to straight up stereotypes (voiced by a menagerie of cringe-inducing attempts at accents from across the globe despite a rather diverse cast), but honestly if you’re playing with friends you’ll barely be able to even pay attention to it. Including New York, Jerusalem, Moscow, and Tokyo, these four unrelated chapters individually feature a group of four unique survivors who are attempting to either escape, rescue others, or find information. World War Z, based on the 2013 film (as opposed to the 2006 novel by Max Brooks, the inspiration for the film), has players tour four global territories, struggling to survive against an impressively vast zombie horde. While I was initially bewildered by the idea of a modern video game trying to cash in on the aging World War Z film license - especially as the odds of a sequel to the film circled the drain - I have to admit it was a pretty good call.
