Reviews - DemolitionSteve

The good:

First 10 minutes were appropriately ominous, and did in fact seem genuinely scary.

The sound was good and the overall atmosphere was gritty. Some of the puzzles were pretty interesting.

Animations were pretty solid, especially on the guns.

Interesting enemy types

The bad:

Enemies took way too many of the already super limited bullets, I was often forced to quicksave at every enemy so I could swing my creskinned crowbar, jump back, repeat

Some enemies were just obnoxious as ****, and their only purpose seemed to be to eat away your usually low-health. Like those walk-on-all-fours doll baby things, it was damn near impossible to kill one without it getting at least a hit off you. I think I can speak for everyone here when I say:

NOTHING IS FUN ABOUT KILLING SMALL, JUMPING, CRAWLY ENEMIES. NOBODY GETS ENJOYMENT FROM KILLING ANKLE-BITER ENEMIES, ABSOLUTELY NOBODY

The pistol hardly did jack ****, the SMG took a lot to kill one enemy. The cinder-block-on-a-stick thing wasn't even worth using because while winding it up, you were basically guaranteed to get overrun anyway. I don't recall even finding shotgun ammo, but SMG ammo was more plentiful than boxes of shells? wut?

It felt like half the game I was crawling through vents or helplessly smashing tons of look-alike doors to see if they'd open.

Health was non-existent, and most importantly, so was the story.

Seriously, to have a *good* horror game, the player has to have incentive, or a narrative/plot. Okay, so...Grey has some hallucination and now everyone's gone and/or turned into monsters? He still thinks going home or to the hospital is going to yield positive results in a world that apparently turned into a ghost town in a single day.

He was either severely autistic or had severe ADD. He would say how he should get home, but after murdering undead floating knife-wielding creatures, he has no comments? What in the actual ****?

Game was way too short for something in development for years.

I don't have enough characters to do this mod justice in this review.

To start off, the game *perfectly* fits the atmosphere of a classic zombie film and has an entire appropriate soundtrack and the maps to go with it, which instills a sense of immersion.

The character models were well made and I could see the amount of effort and detail they put into them right off the bat and was pleasantly surprised. Every character has their own unique personality and dialogue as well which is a neat feature.

All of the weapons seemed appropriate for the game and are within reason. No AA12s, RPGs, Barrett .50cals, etc. Though they weren't too many types of weapons (rifle, shotgun, handgun, melee, explosive) I feel this adds to the nice simplicity of this game, and no one weapon feels too powerful compared to others, they're all balanced.

The official maps were very well designed gameplay-wise and each one has a distinct and unique atmosphere. Whether you're listening to the wind howling in the streets in Nightmare, or watching the horde shamble through the foggy countryside from your boarded up window in Rural Panic, they were all very immersive, well designed, and all equally interesting.

Having the option to play survival OR objective really made this stand out from the crowd and adds a nice bit of variety to the gameplay, as opposed to aimlessly killing zombies forever like most mods. The fact this is purely Player vs Player also adds to the tension.
No mindless bot-slaughtering, just your team vs the zombie horde composed of the other players that you shall soon join too, and becoming a part of the evergrowing zombie horde pits you against the humans who you must now overwhelm with your growing numbers and force.

This game is also well balanced. Although zombies do win most of the time, it's not without taking numerous casualties along the way, and although humans have guns and speed, it won't keep them alive for long without teamwork. All in all, wonderful mod.