History Videogame / TheLastStand

* EleventhHourSuperpower: In ''The Last Stand'', you find the [[{{BFG}} M82 Barrett]] after you have found everything else possible. Also, the first soldier zombie you run into in ''The Last Stand'' comes with a [=M4A1=] assault rifle in case you haven't found it yet.

** [[spoiler: It is implied that Jack and his group of survivors makes one to cover your escape from Union City.]] However, ''Aftermath'' reveals [[spoiler: that Jack is not only alive and well, he's actually the leader of the Council that runs The End now.]]

* MadScientist: It's not particularly well-hidden that something's up with Dr. Stedman in ''Aftermath''. [[spoiler:However, what ISN'T obvious is that he was genuinely trying to help humanity by curing the infection, and even made some progress in doing so, it's just that his methods were extreme and led to a host of additional problems in the process.]]

* BulletproofVest: In the first two games, only certain types of zombies had them. In ''Union City'' and ''Dead Zone'', the player's survivor(s) can equip them too.

* CrowbarCombatant: Present in ''Union City'' and ''Dead Zone'', though they're rather average at best.

** [[spoiler: It is implied that Jack and his group of survivors makes one to cover your escape from Union City.]]

* NoPlotNoProblem: Besides the diary, which is not very informative, you get no clue about the details of the ZombieApocalypse. This is averted in ''Union City''.
* OneBulletClips: In ''Union City''. ''The Last Stand'', ''The Last Stand 2'' and ''Dead Zone'' have [[BottomlessMagazines infinite magazines]], so it isn't an issue.

** The gender of your survivors in ''Dead Zone'' only affects their appearance.

** In ''Aftermath'', it is explained that ''all'' of the characters have a latent form of the virus, which will inevitably consume them at some point down the road. How, or if, the characters will be able to last long enough to seek help (if such a thing is possible) has not been revealed by the developers to date.

* ''[[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1266840/The_Last_Stand_Aftermath/ The Last Stand: Aftermath]]'' is an upcoming single-player roguelike (release date November 16th 2021.) that follows a group of survivors in the post-apocalypse who must fight to survive in the ruins of civilization -- and this time, ''all'' of the survivors are infected, meaning it's a question of ''when'', not if, they perish. Players can unlock new perks and rewards when their character dies, along with an "undeath" mechanic that players who risk it all with new mutations.

* AnnoyingArrows: Averted. The Compound Bow in ''The Last Stand 2'' and ''Union City'' does a lot of damage, and can often OneHitKill zombies if they're hit in the right place. Also, in ''Dead Zone'', Bows and Crossbows have a low ammo cost – being 5 and 20 respectively –, happen to be silent – useful when everyone else has a non-motorized melee weapon or if you just want to make a stealth kill –, is fairly quick to reload – especially with certain vests –, and is fairly deadly. That being said, it can be funny to just hide a survivor with a bow in the middle of a compound, and when a raider attacks, some raiders might be caught off guard.

* BadassBeard: The LSG grows one in ''The Last Stand 2'' [[spoiler: and keeps it in ''Union City.'']] Also, you can give your character one in ''Union City'' and ''Dead Zone''.

* GenderSwap: The protagonist in Union City can be either female or male. The gender of their spouse will depend on which one you pick. Characters will address your character according to their gender as well, if it is male, they will be addressed as "sir". If female, they will be addressed as "ma'am".

** In ''Union City''. Other than your spouse's gender and some of the dialogue, there are no changes whatsoever.

* ''[[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1266840/The_Last_Stand_Aftermath/ The Last Stand: Aftermath]]'' is an upcoming single-player roguelike (release date TBA) that follows a group of survivors in the post-apocalypse who must fight to survive in the ruins of civilization -- and this time, ''all'' of the survivors are infected, meaning it's a question of ''when'', not if, they perish. Players can unlock new perks and rewards when their character dies, along with an "undeath" mechanic that players who risk it all with new mutations.

* AnnoyingArrows: Averted. The Compound Bow in ''The Last Stand 2'' and ''Union City'' does a lot of damage, and can often OneHitKill zombies if they're hit in the right place. Also, in ''Dead Zone'', Bows and Crossbows have a low ammo cost - being 5 and 20 respectively -, happen to be silent - useful when everyone else has a non-motorized melee weapon or if you just want to make a stealth kill -, is fairly quick to reload - especially with certain vests -, and is fairly deadly. That being said, it can be funny to just hide a survivor with a bow in the middle of a compound, and when a raider attacks, some raiders might be caught off guard.

* AnnoyingArrows: Averted. The Compound Bow in ''The Last Stand 2'' and ''Union City'' does a lot of damage, and can often OneHitKill zombies if they're hit in the right place. Also, in ''Dead Zone'', Bows and Crossbows have a low ammo cost - being 5 and 20 respectively, happen to be silent - useful when everyone else has a non-motorized melee weapon or if you just want to make a stealth kill, is fairly quick to reload - especially with certain vests, and is fairly deadly. That being said, it can be funny to just hide a survivor with a bow in the middle of a compound, and when a raider attacks, some raiders might be caught off guard.

* ActionSurvivor: Depending on the background you take, your character in ''Union City'' can be this.

* ActionSurvivor: Depending on the background you take, your character in ''Union City'' can be this.

* AnAxeToGrind: Fire Axes, Hatchets and Battle Axes are available in ''Union City'' and ''Dead Zone'', the last of which is the most powerful melee weapon in ''Union City''. The latter game also adds Survival Axes, Ice Axes and the improvised Mezzaluna Axe.

* BlindWithoutEm: Kelly, the Stan's General Foods store clerk is blind without her glasses, so she asks you to find them. The reward for doing so is her becoming a companion for the rest of the game unless she is killed. Thankfully you don't have to look far for the glasses, as they are right outside the storage room she hid in.

* AssholeVictim: Richards, the new employee at Union Security, runs off and takes some weapons and the key to their armory,leaving them helpless without their guns, you have to get the key back back from him, you find him in the subway, already killed by zombies, once you get the key back one of the other employees will be glad that Richards is dead.

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* CoolHelmet[=/=]CoolMask[=/=]NiceHat: It is possible to find hats/helmets as well as masks for your survivors in ''Dead Zone''. While a few are merely cosmetic, others add to your health, make you a better combatant, make you resist certain kinds of damages better, and make you tougher to kill.

** Companions can only be recruited by completing fetch quests.

* GenderSwap: The protagonist in Union City can be either female or male. The gender of their spouse will depend on which one you pick.

** In ''The Last Stand'', certain weapons can be found in the hands of specific zombie types (e.g. zombie cops will carry Magnums, bikers have Shotguns, and Army zombies carry [=M4A1=]s), ensuring that you will find them eventually by killing the first enemy that carries them.

* AntiFrustrationFeature: The first two titles gained a checkpoint system when re-released as part of the Legacy Collection on Steam, allowing you to restart from the beginning of the latest night should you die. As the cherry on top, it also respawns the other survivors who have died to weapon zombies before you yourself fell.

* AwesomeButImpractical: The [=M249=] from ''The Last Stand 2''. It deals good damage per bullet and has an absolutely massive magazine size relative to its firepower. However, it also takes forever to reload, handles big crowds rather poorly, and like all ballistic weapons is defeated by body armor, making it a poor choice against [=SWAT=] and Army zombies. It is also located in the dead last location in the game (that is also a VersionExclusiveContent) just shy of Union City, meaning you might not even be able to come across it most of the time if your timing is bad. Contrast this with the [=RPG=], which is also found in the same area, but does insane amounts of damage in a very large blast radius that one-shots anything it hits, thus letting it make mincemeat of zombie crowds, while also circumventing body armor, both of which the [=M249=] handles incredibly poorly.

* AwesomeButImpractical: The [=M249=] from ''The Last Stand 2''. It deals good damage per bullet and has an absolutely massive magazine size relative to its firepower. However, it also takes forever to reload and handles big crowds rather poorly. It is also located in the dead last location in the game (that is also a VersionExclusiveContent) just shy of Union City, meaning you might not even be able to come across it most of the time if your timing is bad. Contrast this with the [=RPG=], which is also found in the same area, but does insane amounts of damage in a very large blast radius that one-shots anything it hits, thus letting it make mincemeat of zombie crowds, while also circumventing body armor, both of which the [=M249=] handles incredibly poorly.

** The RPG and [=M249 SAW=] in the second game are both hideously powerful, but are only found in the very late-game Fort Tran, which is in itself a VersionExclusiveContent to Armor Games and inaccessible otherwise. Unless your time management is really on point and you also got lucky with supplies, it would be very difficult to reach the fort ''and'' Union City within the time allotted.

* VersionExclusiveContent: In ''The Last Stand 2'', Fort Tran is only accessible to those who play the Armor Games version. It is locked off as an exclusion zone otherwise, denying the player access to the RPG and [=M249 SAW=] by extension. Fort Tran still remains inaccessible when the game was re-released as part of the Legacy Collection.

* InfinityPlusOneSword: ''Union City'' has a number of weapons that are at the top of their class -- and ''extremely'' hard to find, with most only being found in Lucky Drops or in unique containers. These include the Katana (Sharpened), M249 SAW (Military), UMP 45 (Spec Ops or Military), the SV-SMG and the AK-47 (Spec Ops).

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* ''[[http://armorgames.com/play/269/the-last-stand The Last Stand]]'' followes a survivor named Jack ([[FanNickname nicknamed "The Last Stand Guy" or "LSG"]], who tries to hold off waves of the undead until he is rescued. His barricade is besieged by a [[ZombieApocalypse horde of flesh eating zombies]] every night, and the player must defend the barricade and then allocate search parties during the daytime to find more weapons and survivors, as well as repair the barricade from any damage it may have taken last night.