A pandemic is sweeping across the globe. Playing as one of six elite military or CIA personnel roles, you must race against time and around the world, with one mission: survive and prevent a zombie apocalypse!

Players start World War Z: The Game in North America and spread out across the world to battle Zombies (or "Zs") using a combination of weapons, tactics, and unique abilities. Work together, and choose wisely how boldly to strike at the zombie hordes. Being too timid may result in the entire world becoming overrun, but act too aggressively and you could be overwhelmed by zombies and turned against your allies by becoming a Z yourself.

Zombie hordes appear in four different strength levels, and you can defeat them with the right combination of strategy and luck, using the six-, eight-, ten-, and twelve-sided dice included. The starting layout is random so that no game is the same twice! Will you succeed in clearing the world of Zs, or will you become one of the infected?