The Sandbox genre, whose name is literally translated as “sandbox” into Russian, was until recently not very popular and interesting to users. Naturally, there was such a thing as an “open world”, and if it was in the game, it meant that you would not be led along the same path all the time, but would be given freedom of movement and action. However, in any case, each game had a specific goal, storyline, certain characters. As for the sandbox, there is nothing of this here. There is no plot, practically no side characters, there are no missions and quests, there is no specific goal, upon reaching which you would pass the game. Your only goal is to survive using everything in the game world.
The beginning of the popularity of this genre was laid by the Minecraft masterpiece, where in the eight-bit world you are given the opportunity to use absolutely everything - right down to the land on which your character stands. Since then, enough projects have come out, but many of them did not offer users anything new, so they quickly went into oblivion. Only some of them have remained and are developing now - for example, Unturned 2. How to play this project? What is required of you there? How is he different from everyone else? All this will be discussed later.
Unturned Phenomenon
First of all, it's worth talking about the phenomenon of Unturned 2. How to play, you will understand quite quickly, so you will be interested to know what this project is remembered for. If you recall Minecraft, then almost everyone knows that this game was developed from the very beginning by one programmer who previously worked in several companies in his country. Only then other team members joined the project to develop it, but initially the idea and implementation were for one person.
In the case of Unturned, the situation is repeated, only everything looks even more impressive. The fact is that, unlike Minecraft, this game was created by a 17-year-old student from Canada. As a matter of fact, the concept of the game completely repeats Minecraft - the same eight-bit simplified graphics, similar worlds. But, of course, this game would not be remembered by everyone if it did not have its own zest. So what's so great about Unturned 2? How to play this project and how does it differ from the rest?
The essence of the game
First you need to understand the essence of the game. Naturally, this is a full-fledged "sandbox", that is, you have no specific tasks, except one general - to survive. But what will stop you from doing this? To answer this question, you need to recall another very popular topic, which now constantly pops up in computer games, in literature, and on large and small screens. Of course, this is a zombie.
So, Unturned is Minecraft, which added a zombie apocalypse. You find yourself in the middle of a randomly generated world filled with the walking dead, you have absolutely nothing with yourself, and from the first minutes you have to look for the answer to the main question - how to survive in Unturned 2? How to play efficiently and escape from zombies?
Craft
What in the sandbox could be the most important thing in survival? Naturally, this is the creation of a variety of objects, tools and weapons. In Unturned 2, craft plays a crucial role, as you won’t be able to find objects for nothing. You will have to look exclusively for resources, which you will then convert to what is more needed at a particular moment. The crafting system is quite standard - you combine different objects in a special field to get a new one, so you have to learn quite a few recipes to easily navigate this game.
As you can see, in Unturned 2 craft is something without which you can not last long. This is the basis of your survival, so get ready to craft, look for new recipes, experiment, and also get large amounts of various resources.
Difficulty levels
Another interesting point that you can attract in this game is the difficulty levels. Here a lot depends on them. For example, at an easy level, you start not with empty pockets, but with three random objects, which already greatly facilitates the first minutes of the game. In addition, you get one and a half times more resources, money and the rest of the drop than on the average difficulty level. You also have access to the hardcore mode, which greatly changes the game - there are transformations in the interface that complicate the process, the number of resources is also significantly reduced, the process of their extraction is complicated, and zombies become much stronger. Please note that the game is free, but you can get another level of difficulty - gold. Here at the beginning of the game you are given more items, and experience is gained for killing zombies, which allows you to pump a character, which is not available in the free version.
In the Unturned 2 game, crafting recipes are becoming more diverse - in general, you can get a completely different game for five dollars.
Multiplayer
Of course, in a game like Unturned 2, playing on the network is much more fun. You will be able to team up to deal with the threat of zombies, but you will always have to look around, fearing betrayal by one of the partners, who may turn out to be a bandit in the pursuit of profit.