

"We've all played zombie games before," Yang said. After the hack ends, the affected Nanos fall to the ground, fully dead.īy subscribing, you are agreeing to Engadget's Terms and Privacy Policy. And there's an extra twist: Players are able to hack the zombies, transforming groups of them into weapons for a minute at a time. Synced supports 20-minute matches with 16 teams of three players each, plus 1,500 Nanos that spill onto the map in AI-driven bursts. The goal is to get off the planet, as the title suggests. But Synced isn't simply about survival - there's a time limit on each round, and the win ultimately goes to whichever team claims a solitary airship. Next describes Synced as a "PvPvE and co-op" game, meaning players team up to battle other people, and slaughter hordes of AI-driven zombies known as Nanos. That's something that in any other games we haven't really seen before." "But to be honest, having so many players - we have 48 players in a round and 1,500 AI zombies in the same place. "You can argue it looks like World War Z and The Division," Next creative director Clark Jiayang Yang said the day after Synced's reveal.

Some comments wrote off the game as a cheap clone, while others were intrigued by the idea of a new, yet familiar-looking shooter. When Tencent Next Studios debuted the game at NVIDIA's Gamescom 2019 press conference, social media lit up with comparisons to these existing franchises.

At first glance, Synced: Off-Planet looks like a battle-royale blend of Left 4 Dead, The Division and World War Z.
