Les Zombie Army n'ont jamais brillé. Je les ai toujours considérés comme des jeux sympa entre amis mais jamais rien de très marquant. Au moins on s'amusait avec les kill cam et les sniper.

Comment vous dire qu'ici le nombre de sniper dépasse pas le chiffre 3 et que les 9 autres sont en DLC payant à plus de 20 boules... On est clairement sur du foutage de gueule quand on se rend compte que les autres armes (secondaires et pistolets) atteigne tout juste le chiffre 4.

Pour le jeu en lui même, je me suis amusé les 4 premiers chapitres. Le level design est plat certe mais c'est suffisamment beau et bien designé pour s'y amuser. Par contre y'a 9 campagnes les gars, accrochez vous par ce que à partir de la quatrième c'est une descente aux enfers. Plus ça avance moins les devs avait envie de bosser, ça se voit. Tellement redondant, des passages tellement nuls et répétitifs, des mécaniques tellement vieilles.... Riens que la kill cam on avait finis par oublier que ça existait avec mon amis tellement on en a jamais eu. Le jeu est devenus un très mauvais left 4 dead/ World War Z.

Y' un système d'améliorations d'armes et de compétences mais il est tellement pourris, il sert juste à améliorer la visée, stabiliser les armes et ajouter un élément. De la fausse progression minable comme j'en ai jamais vu....

Si c'est à moins de 20€ DLC compris, y'aura surement de quoi s'amuser, au moins + que nous vu que y'aura + d'armes déjà. Par contre au prix actuel, mon dieu fuyez, donnez pas un seul centime à ces gens la, ne reproduisez pas mon erreur

Tu as payé ton jeu, mais non, non, non, ce n'est pas suffisant ? 3 fusils, 4 armes secondaires, et 3 armes de poing ! ha, tu veux du fun avec plein de flingues ? Ha ben mon pote, t'as une CB j'espère ? parce que les 3/4 des armes sont PAYANTES ! C'est pas comme si t'avais déjà payé ton jeu, hein ? c'est répétitif, on se fait ♥♥♥♥♥, et la seul qualité du jeu est sa longueur artificiellement allongée par au moins une phase tower defense par chapitre. à raison de 4 chapitre par mission (sauf la dernière avec un unique chapitre, ou mon pote et moi, on s'est dit "ouf, on a enfin fini ce tas de ♥♥♥♥♥") pour 9 missions, ben le calcul est rapide ! tower defense x1000 = ON SE FAIT ♥♥♥♥♥ ! voilà, on avait adoré Zombie Army Trilogie, là on juste fait le jeu... Pas dingue... Mais bon, les pigeons aimeront <3

Each season pass costs more then the base game and you can't unlock new weapons and cosmetics by actually playing and progressing to achieve something, NO!!! you have to pay for new weapons with real money , this is downright ridiculous!
I always loved and respected Rebelion and their titles, but honestly this is some next level EA BS right here and I am disappointed.

EDIT: As of March 2022, the Season 1 pass is free, so you can feel free to keep that in mind.

Despite giving this game a thumbs down, I actually recommend playing it. My thumbs down is simply to highlight and grab attention at what is a growing trend in scummy business practices by game developers and publishers.

Zombie Army 4 is a pretty great game as far graphics, game play and technical merits is concerned. The problem is the downright, ridiculous way that Rebellion has decided to price this game. Let's put aside the one year exclusivity deal with Epic because developers need to take the best deal they can get to maximize returns on development, so as much as I dislike Epic, I can't fault Rebellion for wanting to make the most money they could. That is how all businesses operate and it is what it is.

The major problem is the absolute nickel and dime pricing structure they've come up with. You can't simply buy the base game and have an equal experience to the previous Zombie Army games. Buying the base game gets you the base campaign, four characters and three guns for each weapons category. THREE!!!! This means you have three rifles to choose from, three secondary weapons (Technically, there are four secondary weapons, but the Thompson and STG are so similar feeling, I have a hard time counting them as two weapons) and three pistols for a total of nine weapons. In a game that was an offshoot of the SNIPER series, you know, a game where you SNIPE enemies with rifles and get to see awesome kills, you get a whopping THREE rifles to choose from! Unless, of course, you buy the Super Deluxe edition or you bought the base game and later on, shell out $35 dollars for one or both of the season passes ($70 for both). Or... you can buy guns individually for a few bucks a piece... And that's just the start of it, individual characters, clothing packs, weapons skins and levels can all be purchased by themselves. Seriously, go and look at the DLC options for this game and it will make your head spin.

I have no problem with developers selling a season pass or DLC that's actually worth something, but breaking up all of this content to such a ridiculous degree is the most asinine thing I have ever seen! This game looks like it's trying to rival something like Fortnite with the amount of crap they want you to buy. Again, DLC is fine, season passes that make sense are fine, but this was just the messiest and most headache-inducing way to release content. It makes me angry that they would go and do this. It makes me feel like Rebellion thinks their fans are dumb and are just going to gobble up any garbage they throw out. I bought the base game at a discount price on Greenman Gaming and I didn't mind spending that, but it's unfortunate that I won't be able to experience the other levels or even the guns, for that matter, until I see a major sale.

In the end, this lack of content in the base game leads to boredom much faster than it otherwise would. It gets VERY repetitive only having three rifles to choose from. In the previous games, I'd usually play for a level with one rifle and then switch it up on the next. Well, if you like doing that, after three levels, you've experienced all of the rifles there are. And that goes for the secondary weapons, too. You get three... and then you're back to repeating them again. This lack of variety turns, what should be a very fun game, into a rather dull drag. Unless, of course, you want to shell out an extra $70+ dollars or Lord knows how much for all of the additional micro-transaction garbage.

Difficulty balance is also an issue in the harder modes, at least for single player, which I enjoy. I beat the game on normal, which was fine, as you'd expect. I decided to go back through again on the hardest difficulty (Brutal). Despite having my rifles upgraded all of the way in damage and most other attributes, basic zombies can, sometimes, take 3-4 headshots to die. That is pretty ridiculous. You'll often find yourself running out of ammo because zombies won't die from even several headshots and you're left running around trying to scavenge what little ammo zombies might drop (it isn't much) or looking for an ammo box which aren't always placed where you need them. This is a minor nitpick, of course, because the hardest difficulty is meant to be hard! But, I think it's a little silly that I can put 3-4 bullets straight into a normal zombie's forehead and they just keep shuffling toward me and scratching my health away. What's the point in maxing out gun attributes when it doesn't really help? It's actually a weird choice in balance. When you max out guns and you're playing on 'normal' difficulty, you can steamroll right over almost anything. But, play the game on 'Brutal' and it's like your guns are useless. At least, as far as the guns in the base edition are concerned.

With all that said, this is still a very fun game. The visuals look terrific. It runs very smoothly for me. I only experienced a couple of crashes and it was at the same point in the game with DX12. I switched to Vulcan and was able to proceed just fine and later, switched back to DX12 with no further problems. The base campaign is quite lengthy. That is one area I will give it to Rebellion. There are a lot of levels and areas to fight through, so big A+ in that respect. If you're a fan of the series, you'll still enjoy the experience, especially if playing with friends. However, the lack of guns in the base game is so slimy in my opinion, especially in a game that's focused on shooting things. If you want to sell additional levels, skins or a few special weapons, I'd see no problem with that, but locking the bulk of guns that fans have had access to in all of the previous games behind additional paywalls was just an awful decision. Let me be clear, offering a ton of worthy DLC wouldn't have been offensive, but locking basic weapons behind season passes or a ton of little micro-transactions is the big issue here.

The base game gets a 7/10 from me. The story was good enough for this type of game and the Zombie Army lore, the visuals are fantastic, the controls and mechanics feel so satisfying and 99% of the time, it ran like a dream. I'm running an 8700k and a 1080ti and I ran the entire game at native 4k with everything turned all of the way up, except I leave AA off. The game rarely dipped below 100fps for me. Absolutely a joy in optimization as far as I'm concerned. If they had just given access to all of the normal weapons which should have been included, my score would've definitely been higher.

I give Rebellion's pricing structure and business practices a generous 2/10. If they do this in their future zombie titles, I'll be skipping them all together or looking for other ways to play them.

Please see my edit -

EDIT: Let me just add this to my review as well since I'm just now realizing this. Steam/Rebellion doesn't really make it super-clear what content comes with what edition as well as the season passes. If you are a person who wants all of the content. You can get it by purchasing the Super Deluxe Edition along with Season Pass 2. That will give you, essentially everything. However, if you view all of the additional content and choose the "Add all DLC to cart" at the bottom, Steam will allow you to purchase it all which works out to over $200. You will be purchasing the Super Deluxe Edition, both season passes as well as all of the individual micro-transaction garbage. Which means, you'll be buying the same content twice when you don't need to and Steam will not warn you or stop you. This is extremely troubling. This might be more Steam's fault than anything. However, this should be something Rebellion should've addressed with Steam as to not allow someone to make this mistake. If you want all of the content, purchase the Super Deluxe Edition and Season Pass 2. DO NOT add all DLC content to your cart and purchase that way.

Game is $50 dollars, but most of the weapons in the game are locked and require you to spend more money to unlock them. Cash grab game. Thumbs definitely down.

Beside of NO privacy policy, NO information or additional options for customers, there is a lot in Zombie Army 4: Dead War from Rebellion which should actually be passed on directly to competent data protection authorities.

Related forum discussion was anonymously removed without warning or hint

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2400746255

An external review without censorship and more details can be reached over my main group announcement in Steam. Thanks for understanding and your interest.

Here is an overview for what customers can expect with this product and and also a small overview in excerpts, where the product phones, or what data it send

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2400229282

(Hash Update 22.02.2021)
- za4_dx12.exe - 97a1355ff88afebc6031eba9c192b30093014bb8
- za4_vulkan.exe - 7e98d159fbe3b244a00ad7367b34f358f7b693ce
- za4.exe - b88ab89b955e0f49992b841208cb210b8e6cc81f

Is completly unnecessary. It's just there for advertising and Affiliate and Scrollbartracking and users who click on social network icons will be delivered to Facebook Trackingpixel, twitter Ads, youtube Stats, Google Analytics and Doubleclick and much more.



Denuvo which is mentioned on the Storepage when starting the game from Launcher:


Similar adress is active in Strange Brigade from the same company

And my favourite, Epic Games Spyware, Datarouter Telemetry, Websocket Traffic/Heartbeat phoning home every 30 seconds and forced Onlinemode tied to telemetry and Analytics. Same counts for as example for Satisfactory from another company.

Which is also nice to see, is the correlation ID
It's an worldwide unique tracking identifier


Disable or Block? Congratulations. You have a worthless product. Even the single player campaign won't work.

Again, Developers and Publisher do not care about current laws, or even Customers. They honestly give a **** on them/us. They even have the nerve to steal data and simply take it. No Opt-In/No Opt-Out. No additional option.

We as customers therefore pay twice (as always?). Not to talk about the ridiculous DLC policy for this product.

Rebellion should improve in this regard as soon as possible or they should pay us for every kilobyte which is send.

And i bet there will be few mini patches without real content soon, to refresh Denuvo Anti-Tamper.

Edit 22.02.2021 : As predicted, not even a week later, the first "patch" an update has been installed.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2404761362

And what happened? Rebellion has deleted the entry from the Update Thread

Related data (prepared for hosts security) is already published on https://gameindustry.eu/search/index.php?suchbegriff=Zombie+Army+4:+Dead+War&suche

and there will be an external review as well.

Look. We need to actually have a seriously frank discussion about the DLC here, because after playing the game for a small amount of time and deeply enjoying myself and the many vast improvements this game has over ZAT, I've noticed that so much, so much stuff, is locked behind a paywall. You cannot play this game and not know this, at all. It hits you immediately. This is not going to be a review about the game, as I'll just tell you that the game is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fantastic, there's so very little wrong with it. But this serves as a critique of Rebellion's business practices when it comes to this game. You cannot even talk about this game without interacting with these notions.

So after all this time, locked away on Epic Games Store, Zombie Army IV: Dead War comes to Steam and I immediately pounced on it when it did because I. Love. Zombie Army Trilogy. That game's incredible, definitely go buy it if you have the time. It's got some jank that takes some getting used to, but it's definitely manageable, it's definitely worth playing. And above all, it's a full game. No BS, no DLC, it's a full game.

This game takes ZAT, puts it on steroids, takes it off life support, polishes everything, takes the jank out of the jankiness that was in ZAT, improves on so much... and then completely, utterly ♥♥♥♥♥ you with downloadable content. I mean it royally, gravely ♥♥♥♥♥ us. EIGHTY-TWO (82) PIECES OF DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT can be yours presently for $406.20 as of the time of this writing, right now. So this game puts so much effort into uplifting Zombie Army as a series, updating the visuals, fantastically reanimating the zombies so they're not jerky, they move fluidly and naturally, every shot is now at the mercy of your skill (or lack thereof), and the environments, the graphics, the sound design, they're all there, right there, and this game is then made almost near-perfect by Rebellion's CLEARLY well-honed effort, they've clearly put some love into this, put their hearts into innovating Zombie Army's gameplay and pushing it forward with everything Zombie Army used to lack...

...And then they lobotomize it. They take content that could have been left into the game, maybe as a means of incentivizing getting good at the game, skilling up and achieving specific goals, and they make you pay for it instead. They took a whole game, threw it on the ground, and are selling a wonderful game piece, by piece, by piece.

The people who developed this game, made so many game-changing improvements on just how you even play the game, have themselves utterly and shamelessly crippled their own wonderful production with extremely intensive greed. Rebellion. You're not some AAA-tier gaming company, by far. And even if you were, these practices are never okay. Your greed is even less unearned than the greed of companies like EA, companies like Activision. What in the Hell have you done, from Zombie Army III to Zombie Army IV, that warrants this kind of shameless greedy behavior?

I'll be the first to admit, from ZAT to here, they put in some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ work. They changed the game, definitely, they improved on the series most definitely. But it's not worth $406.20, not even counting the initial transaction it takes to even play the game to find out that it is completely broken by shameless avariciousness. What in burning Hell are you people doing? You didn't even give the Left 4 Dead survivors any of their own voices, or even modability to the game itself. You did well, but you sure as ♥♥♥♥ are not getting almost half a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ grand for me to play the rest of this game.

I've already said it. The game is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ great. There's hardly a thing wrong with it.
But I can't recommend that others spend their money on such a shameless, uncontrollably greedy company that has this kind of behavior waiting for them. It's made even worse because Rebellion actually used to be a humble company. They knew what they had, they did the best the could with what little resources they did have and made some great, engaging games (the Sniper Elite series, Zombie Army Trilogy, etc.). Now they're suddenly acting like Electronic Arts or ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Activision.

To Rebellion themselves: This is why piracy exists. It levels the playing field against money-hungry scum who put their profit motive over their customers in cases where it's warranted (or more disagreeably, whenever people really want). I'm not saying it's always justified, in fact nine times out of ten I frown upon it deeply. But, you nickle and you dime people, even your own loyal consumers who have known you forever aren't going to shill for you and that's me in this case. You made a great product, you intentionally broke it so you could sell the pieces back to us. You're ♥♥♥♥♥♥ in the head.
You make a great case for it.


Still one for ever-rising greed, Rebellion has officially lifted the complete game's total to a brand new 422.15, inching ever closer to half a grand in downloadable content.
Anybody want to place bets as to whether or not they make it half a grand? I'm in.


All of the game's content can be yours for $325.46! Isn't that amazing, just almost $100 off from the original asking price of 422.15. Wow, gotta love that.
Stop being greedy and just put the game back together already and sell it for a single, flat rate, Jesus Christ.


Now it can all be yours for wow, $202.84 plus the price of the base game, which at present during this sale is $16.99 from the normal price of $49.99. If that's not disgraceful, I don't know what is. Rebellion still doesn't seem to be backing down from this pricing model, so I'm not backing down from my position.

Imagine a shooter where you don't unlock new weapons. You start with 3 options and you have to buy the rest with real cash. GTFO with that micro-transaction Bull.

Don't get me wrong, this is a great arcade-y third person zombie shooter and despite owning all the DLCs, I don't recommend it because of the following:

-Too many DLCs for a full priced game and the developers misread the community thinking they would fork over this much money considering most of the playerbase of the franchise consists of people getting the Zombie Army Trilogy for pennies during sales
-Horde mode doesn't account for your DLC weapons unless you're playing solo so even if you play with other players that also own the DLC weapons, they will not show up, leading to repetition
-The base game content is lacking, and I mean REALLY lacking. You only get 3 primary, secondary, and sidearm. That's extremely pathetic for a full priced game on top of the previous games not having this lack of content
-Base game weapons' form of progression is finding collectibles called Upgrade kits and finishing stickers (which are challenges) but even if you finish all challenges and finding all kits, you won't have enough to fully upgrade all the base game weapons unless you level up to 100. This is fine but the DLC weapons have ACTUAL WEAPON PROGRESSION as in each upgrade requires you to do something rather than chase after collectibles. For a game that boasts DEEP PROGRESSION, why give that to DLC weapons and instead also give it to the base game weapons? I dont understand this direction
-Game playerbase is minimal due to the issues listed above, but the biggest flaw is that you cannot play with people that have DLCs that you dont and vice versa, leading to alienation of an already small playerbase.

The whole game is built as if the main game is F2P, but no it was launched at full price of $60 dollars with over 200 dollars worth of DLC. I got this game and the DLCs at a sale and it was $87 dollars. Was it worth it? Game is fun, but not $87 dollars fun. Wait for a bigger sale or wait for Rebellion to stop acting like greedy morons

Edit: They just made all Season 1 content free. Not the right move, make the main game free, not the DLC. And it's funny how this means there is a chance other season pass content will be free, screwing over anyone that paid the absurd prices for these DLCs AND incentives people into just waiting for them to become free instead of buying them. Bad move, Rebellion.

50 damn bucks and more than 80% of the weaponry is locked behind stupid Microtransactions. Yeah, no.