First and foremost, I believe it’s essential to mention for those who haven’t experienced the flatscreen version that this game is an arcade shooter. It won’t provide you with a high level of realism or the stealthy gameplay of taking out enemies from afar like in Sniper Elite. Instead, the focus here is on accumulating points and achieving the highest score possible.

In this game, you’ll navigate through parts of Germany, exploring complexes and occasionally venturing into a mysterious realm accessed through portals. As you progress between checkpoints, you’ll encounter and eliminate smaller groups of zombies, which will eventually escalate to facing waves of them. This could involve waiting for a vigil to be lifted from a door, filling a blood fountain, or waiting for a door to open or something to power up. Throughout the campaign, you’ll will also encounter several bosses, but the main takeaway is that you’ll be engaged in combat throughout the entire game.

When it comes to the undead, you’ll encounter various types. Initially, you’ll face the standard type, which either walks or runs towards you, or one that wields a weapon that sprays bullets without much precision. As you advance, you’ll encounter additional types, including snipers, suicide bombers, larger heavily armored zombies, and those that hide behind shields while throwing grenades at you. Furthermore, as mentioned earlier, boss fights will occur from time to time. These typically involve battling hordes until you can break the boss’s shield and take a shot at them.

You will be battling the undead using authentic World War II weapons, which certainly enhances the immersion of that era and setting. All weapons feature full manual reloading, and the PSVR2 version utilises adaptive triggers effectively, which is mixed with headset haptics when taking damage – taking the immersion to a whole new level. To unlock the weapons in the game, you must find and collect them throughout the campaign. Each weapon can be upgraded in four different areas, and as you progress, you will earn upgrade points, with one available in every section of the campaign. From this point, you can use a crafting table at your base camp or at the beginning of each chapter to allocate your upgrade points to your selected weapons. This creates a sense of progression as you gather more weapons and enhance them, helping you determine your optimal load-out.

In addition to firearms, you’ll receive melee weapons, but I encountered a significant problem with them. They felt devoid of the impactful sensation that you experience in other games when striking zombies, where their heads go flying. This made them rather unsatisfying to wield – to the extent that I only resorted to using them when absolutely necessary, rather than out of desire.