We analyze Killing Floor 3, the third installment of this popular saga of FPS that has managed to earn a place in the community of a genre loaded with competitors.
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Over the years, FPS games have become my main genre and the one I spend the most hours playing, with examples like Halo or Battlefield. Lately, I’ve also been expanding to franchises that didn’t catch my attention at first, including the saga that brings us here today, as Killing Floor 3 is my first time killing hordes of zombies and mutant monsters that won’t stop attacking us in the different waves of this title’s extensive maps.
As always, we start by talking about the game’s story, which brings us to a world plagued by mutant monsters and biological weapons. Our team is one of the last barriers of humanity to prevent a total apocalypse, and to do so, we’ll have to use our skills to unravel this conspiracy and blow up every last zombie in each of the locations where these events will take place.
Technical Section
As always, we start with the technical section, and visually, we have to say that we’re dealing with a title that doesn’t look bad on either the Xbox Series X or Series S, since being a FPS, it’s clear that we’re not dealing with the most visually stunning game of the generation; but it perfectly fulfills what we’re looking for in this type of game. Not to mention that it’s great to see that on both Microsoft consoles, the game runs at 60 FPS in a single performance mode, although on the smaller console, we might experience some drops when there’s a lot of action on screen, which shouldn’t affect the experience too much when playing on the smaller console.
In terms of sound, there are also good things to highlight, since we have a soundtrack that’s pure heavy metal with powerful guitars, something that connects very well with the moments of killing monsters non-stop in the waves.
Gameplay
Killing Floor 3 has many good things, and where we need to elaborate the most is in its gameplay, since we’ll start by choosing our character as soon as we enter our operations center. Although this can be changed in the mission start menu, at the base, we’ll have total freedom to explore the different positions, including a classic training area in this type of game.
We’ll also be able to improve the characters we use, since as we play matches and improve our scores, we’ll also get resources that we can convert into improvements for different areas, including active and passive skills that we’ll equip to be even more lethal in the different missions and maps against the hordes of mutants.
To start matches, we’ll have to go to the map selector in the base and choose the mission; at that moment, if we’re playing with matchmaking activated, we’ll join other players to overcome the different waves that will be coming our way, and we’ll have enemies of all kinds, including powerful bosses that are a real challenge even on standard difficulty.
In the match lobby, we’ll be able to finalize our character and class selection, as well as all the equipment we’ll take at the start of the match, although all this can be modified between waves, since we’ll have time and money to buy or sell weapons and other objects. Additionally, we can improve some aspects, such as armor, to better resist enemy impacts.
Although each character is a different class, there’s no limit to which character the team can choose, and it’s even possible to buy armament from other classes. So, the important thing when choosing who to take is limited to the skills and exclusive equipment of each character, which can also be extremely useful for overcoming the hordes of monsters.
During matches, we’ll have a series of objectives to complete, something that’s more noticeable in the cooperative campaign, which can only be played solo or with friends, since multiplayer matches can have objectives like simply resisting the waves of monsters to win the match.
Duration
Killing Floor 3 is a game that fans of FPS and monster waves will enjoy, but its story won’t give us more than an afternoon to find out what’s happening. Although this duration can be extended according to the player’s tastes, since multiplayer matches outside of the campaign will give us many challenges to complete, so we should be well served.
Conclusion
Killing Floor 3 won’t be a game for everyone, especially for those who enjoy playing solo, but for fans of the genre who enjoy waves of monsters to defeat. Clearly, we’re dealing with a great game that will give us a good number of hours with the controller glued to our hands and with which we won’t stop feeling the frenzy of destroying everything while heavy metal music plays alongside our teammates.
We thank Plaion for the material provided to carry out this analysis.
Spartan and computer technician who lives to the rhythm of metal. A great lover of videogames and beer. Specially covers Halo and Xbox Game Studios news.
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