Breaking Lockdown Review

 

*Contains Spoilers*
A Game As Wild, Broken, and Frustrating As The Year 2020

What can be said about Breaking Lockdown that cannot be said about 2020? It’s the apocalypse, everything is burning, there are zombies in the streets, and it feels like you’ll never reach the end. 

The game itself doesn’t have much substance. You’re dropped into an apocalyptic wasteland and you’re trying to cross town in the middle of this hellscape to reach your friend. I sincerely hope it was worth it. 

Planes have crashed, zombies lurk everywhere you look, and literally everything kills you. Get too close to something on fire? Boom! Dead. Run the wrong way when the military decides to kill anything that moves? You just took a full sized anti tank missile to the face. Near some rogue electricity? Also dead.

There’s not much more beyond that, and if you happen to make it to the end of the game through all the frustration, insanely loud sound effects that deafen, and the nagging urge to throw your computer out the window, then congratulations! You’re one of the very few who have mustered the patience necessary to see this brief walk through hell to its conclusion.

I must admit, I laughed (and then grumbled) through most of my playthrough and was thoroughly entertained by the absurdity of it. If that sounds like something you enjoy, then you might appreciate this game. I feel Breaking Lockdown has few redeeming qualities, however, so I cannot in good conscience recommend this game for anything but a few strained laughs.

[Lady played Breaking Lockdown on PC with a mouse and keyboard]