Is there supposed to be a Story?

[TheSuit]

So I started the Franchise on Zombie Army 4 and the Story was fantastic there is constant dialog, explanations of whats happening. Extremely well done, So I thought I would give triology a try.

The opposite experience I am getting.
No story, I have no idea why I am going to various locations.

Is my game bugged or is there really no story explanation of why you are doing things?

[Dimi]

Well I don't think it really has as much of a story as the 4th one but more or less, all of these chapters are basically about you making your way to kill hitler.



(In my opinion ofcourse)

[TheSuit]

Originally posted by Sage:

Well I don't think it really has as much of a story as the 4th one but more or less, all of these chapters are basically about you making your way to kill hitler.



(In my opinion ofcourse)

Thanks just checking.
Cause the difference between ZA4 and ZA1-3 is like Night and Day.

I mean ZA4 is like a MASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSIVE Upgrade in that case.

[Nekavandre]

The story in ZA 3 is told Valve style meaning strictly through enviromental story telling which means you have to look at your surroundings and put the story together and limited character dialouge. There is also alot of background dialouge from the Demons and stuff. ZA 4 on the other hand picks up not to long after ZA 3 and they decided to up the story and go for a more traditional story telling route so lots and lots of exposition, dialouge, cut scenes, and etc. as the enviromental story telling from previous 3 games wasnt doing it for players. The story across all 4 games is pretty simple. End of WW2, Hitler and Nazi Germany are losing, Hitler activates Plan Z (Literally Plan Zombie) via the Necronominom that the SS uncovered, and spawns hell across the world, it is up to various survivors to go kill Hitler and put a stop to him and hell itself.

[TheSuit]

Originally posted by Castial:

The story in ZA 3 is told Valve style meaning strictly through enviromental story telling which means you have to look at your surroundings and put the story together and limited character dialouge.

No. It isn't "Valve Style".
Half Life was one of the most acclaimed games in story telling.
In this case there is almost no clue on the purpose of the individual, the origin,
The Most story in this game so far is from game trailer.

If you are referring to L4D series that was made by Turtle Rock Studios both times.
Even then it gave you an idea of what was happening by the end of the chapter, even though it might be a small piece it was better than this.

With that said Zombie Army 4 did it right - you have a well done presentation of story.

[Boboscus]

Zombie apocalypse types of games don't even need a story, and story here is you want to kill the bad guy to end all of this. What else would be a story in a game where dead rise just to kill you, survive, no?

[TheSuit]

Originally posted by Boboscus:

Zombie apocalypse types of games don't even need a story, and story here is you want to kill the bad guy to end all of this. What else would be a story in a game where dead rise just to kill you, survive, no?

Survival Games don't need story - since the purpose is survival.

But if you are going from Point A to B because the game tells you to, there needs to be a reason you are doing that. This isn't a survival game - its essentially a railway shooter.

[Oc]

Fundamentally it's not a "railway shooter", it just has linear levels.

Yes there's a story, it continues on into za4. I don't notice a difference between the story though because who cares. I'm here to bust some zombie faces after a day of work.

[Steve (Dawn's Hubby)]

I realize this is an older post, but the thread is applicable as it appears the opening cut scenes with hitler in them, which tell the story, no longer appear. At least they don't play for me and two other people I just completed the trilogy with. Does anyone know anything about the or have you experienced this yourself? You can see the intros on youtube if you did not see them in your game either.

[TheSuit]

Originally posted by Steve (Dawn's Hubby):

I realize this is an older post, but the thread is applicable as it appears the opening cut scenes with hitler in them, which tell the story, no longer appear. At least they don't play for me and two other people I just completed the trilogy with. Does anyone know anything about the or have you experienced this yourself? You can see the intros on youtube if you did not see them in your game either.

Probably what happened to me, my first cutscene was just a truck driving into a road

[TLMVodkavia]

ZA1 and ZA2 were just stand alone DLCs' for the Sniper Elite. It was basically made to pass the time and make it Zombies. they were never taken seriously. Yeah just a way to make Sniper Elite multiplayer Co-op like what L4D was doing with a little inspiration from CoD: World at War. Zombie Army trilogy was just to make a third entry and remaster the first 2 so they can sell it on consoles. They put a little story in there, Hitler raises the dead. The first game is to escape Berlin. Second game, you go back to find Hitler and stop him using relics, third game you go and cast Zombie Hitler to hell. it did lack character dialogue to me, like basic to stuff, thing that someone would ask, like "where is everyone" "Holy ****, what are these things?' not too much dialogue but at least enough where the game doesn't seem lifeless would have been fine. I haven't played ZA4 yet but i'm glad to hear they made an actual full game with story.