Game · Housemarque · 2010
Dead Nation
49Watch it awake.
A top-down apocalypse. Grim, competent, and nothing you need.
Pass it on
The review
A top-down apocalypse. Grim, competent, and nothing you need.
Dead Nation makes a fight feel like a skill, because it is one. It is not for a child. If it is in the house, it is after the day is done, and it does not get to teach that a person is a target.
Journal
Keep Dead Nation in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 49. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household and Piety and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Returnal
63 instead of 49
Returnal is still a shoot game, and it scores 63 instead of 49. What you gain is household: Households in Returnal are where the story tells the truth, if it tells it.
The eight
- 6Industry
The fighting in Dead Nation is a craft. Pretending otherwise is how it sneaks in.
- 3Household
Houses exist in it mostly as things to lose or to leave.
- 2Piety
No prayer that matters. A cause, sometimes, and often only a flag.
- 9Courage
Standing the ground is the courage Dead Nation knows how to stage.
- 5Republic
A war is a public event. Dead Nation sometimes remembers the public.
- 4Temperance
The spectacle is the appetite. One mission is enough to see it.
- 6Truth
Dead Nation is truest when the enemy is allowed to have had a reason.
- 4Stewardship
What it leaves is a reflex. Notice the reflex before it leaves the room.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · Dead Nation · 49IMDb
