'State of Decay One Survival Edition' Xbox One, Xbox 360 Release Date: Microsoft confirms game launching by April; Game visual improvements targeted by developer; Will players receive discounts?

By Staff Writer

Feb 05 2015, 07:00 AM EST

The Xbox version of the popular open-world zombie game "State of Decay" will be released this April announced by Microsoft as "State of Decay One Survival Edition". Screenshots of the game were also released by the company.

As reported by Gamespot, the new game which was previously popularized in Xbox 360 will be moving to Xbox One this year. With the survival edition, there will be more improvements such as the game's resolution alongside the two DLC releases which are the Lifeline and Breakdown. Thus, the new version will be at 1080p than the previous Xbox 360's 720p resolution.

Jeff Strain, the founder of Undead Labs, said that they wanted to address some animation polishing particularly on the improvements on the game's environmental textures. He also added that they are also integrating the Lifeline DLC base management features to the core game. So the characters will then be playable both in Lifeline and Breakdown as well. By unifying these features, that defines the 'State of Decay' according to him.

In the integration, the Lifeline characters such as Major Alicia Hawkes, Sergeant Kilohana "Kilo" Young, Private "Vince" Vincent, and Sergeant Kelly "Sasquatch" Eldridge will be bought to the main State of Decay game.

Express detailed that the game will bring players to centre of zombie apocalypse based from the fictitious Trumbul Valley and they must build a band of survivors and try to make ways to escape alive.

Strain hinted that with the game's franchise, there will still more upcoming while just giving some clues about the future of the game. "This is the first next-gen step for the State of Decay franchise. Obviously we have big plans for this franchise going forward into the future, and getting it here gets us to the baseline we need to be to start pursuing that," he cited.

Digital Spy added that those players who already owned Xbox 360 will have a 33% discount upon purchase of the new version of the game in Xbox One.

The State of Decay will be available in digitally in Xbox One and Steam, together with the boxed retail version of the Xbox One.