How To Survive is among the greatest matches of the year and a good zombie role-playing Game. The newest Xbox Live Arcade title from 505 Games is a pleasant surprise with its blend of dual-stick shooting action and Diablo-style hack-and-slash action. It boasts a rich crafting system and a captivating environment to explore. 'How To Survive' rewrites the rules for zombie role-playing games!

Key Features

• Offers a unique experience for veterans of zombie video games.
• It has more to offer than brains being smashed and bloody good. With a relatively complex crafting system
• You are a castaway in a complete freakshow universe, shipwrecked on a remote island. How are you going to live?
• Of course, gather the pages from a Survival Handbook and figure it out! Before you die, find refuge, food, and water. Is it becoming dark yet? Find a way to survive the evening! While at it, collect some of these exceptional items and assemble over 100 homemade tools and weapons, including shotguns and Molotov cocktails. You can now successfully defend your pals and yourself!
• Choose one of the three playable characters with unique traits and skill paths.
•  Discover four islands home to a range of horrendous monsters and rare species of plants and animals.
•  Gather the "Survival guide" video chapters to discover life-saving advice!
•  Go through the story mode offline with a friend, or play the eight challenging challenges online with a companion.
•  For a severe, demanding hardcore gaming experience, try the "Iron Man" difficulty.

Gameplay

Top-down viewing is used to play How to Survive. Story and Challenge are the two available Game types; up to two people can play in each. The player(s) in challenge mode start on one of the islands, and they have to journey to the other side, where their escape car is waiting. The player aims to gather resources, construct weapons, and leave the island alive. The player cannot take their time because neither the Challenge nor the plot is timed.

Plot

Gamers take on the role of one of three individuals stranded on one of four horror islands that make up an archipelago: the all-around Kenji, the quick, arczar Abbie, or the brawling Jack. The survivor encounters Ramon, an older adult with one leg who owns a boat that may be used to move between the islands, after providing Andrew, another wounded survivor who has already been bitten by a zombie, with food. Together, they devise a scheme to use a beached seaplane, with Andrew serving as the pilot, to escape the archipelago. Ramon orders the survivor to get supplies to fix the aircraft.

A mysterious guy in full armour named Kovac, who has declared the islands his hunting ground, soon encounters the survivor. Kovac, a self-described "master survivor," eagerly steps into the role of mentor, providing the survivor with helpful tips and resources during the Game's course while also using his enormous field knowledge to write a zombie guidebook ("Kovac's Rules").

The survivor encounters Carol, a mother whose little daughter, Emily, got lost from her while they were searching. Unable to prevent Emily from slipping into the water and being washed away, the survivor finds Emily trapped on a cliffside; Carol is horrified by the news. The plane is fixed, but Ramon sees that Andrew is (clearly) not fit to fly it, so he sends the survivor looking for a qualified pilot.

The survivor encounters Martha, a frail older adult who is missing her friend Enzo (who turns out to be a cat). After getting Enzo back, the survivor hears from her about a nearby intoxicated ex-pilot named Sanchez. As the survivor discovers that Sanchez is a drug smuggler who lost all his goods in the plane accident, he must search the entire archipelago for his scattered packages to gain cooperation.

Along the way, the survivor locates Emily, frees her from her jail, and reunites her with Carol. The girl states that a strange man, whose face she never saw, kidnapped her; her evidence, combined with Carol's assertion that the same man was in charge of steering the ship she was on towards the reefs, makes it clear that Kovac is not what he first appears to be.