Sometimes I wonder if I can say I’m a fan of shooting games where you have to escape, especially when I don’t enjoy the most popular game of that type: Escape From Tarkov.
I tried playing it, but I didn’t like it much. It’s a really tough game where you can lose all your stuff easily. I’ve thought about giving it another try many times, but I never do.
That’s why I’m excited to try Gray Zone Warfare, a new game that’s similar to Tarkov. People who love Tarkov are excited about it. Even if I’m not good at it, at least I’ll be bad at it with other new players.
But Gray Zone isn’t just a copy of Tarkov. In Gray Zone, you can work together with other players, which you can’t do in Tarkov. Before you start playing, you have to join one of three groups.
This choice is important because you can only team up with people from your group. You can only switch groups every few months when the game resets.
Each group in Gray Zone has a base camp on a big island. People in your group are your friends, so it’s less scary to play alone. Especially when you’re new, it feels nice to have strangers helping you out.
Right now, while the game is still new, there are places on the map where you’re pretty safe from enemies. It’s like safe zones in a game like World of Warcraft. The closer you get to the middle or other groups’ areas, the more likely you are to run into enemies.
What’s cool about Gray Zone is that when you die, you don’t lose everything like you do in Tarkov. You come back to life at your base camp.
You can start over with new stuff or go back to where you died and try to get your things back. If another player killed you, they probably took your best stuff. But if it was a computer-controlled character, your stuff would still be there.
Because it’s easy to get your stuff back after you die in Gray Zone, I didn’t feel too bad when I died a couple of times.
The first time, I died right away for some weird reason. The second time, I had to step away from the game for a bit, and a computer character got me. But both times, I got all my stuff back, which doesn’t happen in Tarkov unless you have friends who can help you.