Let me start of by saying how incredibly repetative repetative repetative repetative this game can get. Sure the environments look different every now and then, once you clean up all the blood in the room and just turn the lights on and ta da! you're walking through the same room at least 3 or 4 times before you progress to the next level.
The actual designs for the zombies are appropriately disgusting. Some zombies still have a sense of humanity which makes it actually scarier. There are also zombies which if you shoot their belly, tiny zombies swarm the floor and eat you. There are flying ones which turn corpses into a zombie but this can be easily countered by stomping on the dead ones so they can't be zombified. Perhaps the most annoying one is probably the zombie which can't die....you shoot it's limbs off and it just regrows them back so what's the point of shooting him?....Now the best battles are with the bosses. The most disgusting one is probably the Anus Monster down in food storage.....called an anus monster for a good reason.
Perhaps the one thing that annoys me to no end is that the game uses the same scare over and over. For example, Issac (dude you play as) walks down a corridor when he turns a corner and a zombie lays dead. However one step further the zombie pounces up and mauls his neck and bites his ears off. Fine yes it made me soil myself ever so slightly but when you use the scare over and over atleast 7 times it'll surely lose it's scare. Also i ran out of ears a long time ago.
Moving on. The gunplay itself it ok. It does make aiming abit more important from the usual plan of spray and pray with the strategic dismemberment tactic. HOWEVER!!!! It is a nightmare playing with keyboard and mouse. Now i have a Logitech G9 mouse and it is a spectacular mouse but when i was playing this, when you change views it feels like you're dragging the camera view. In short...play with a controller or you'll have trouble aiming for those vital limbs.
To the biggest of problems.....I didn't finish the game. The game gave me no reason to continue. It was a frustrating game for me. Perhaps I'm an incompetent gamer (highly unlikely) but i was about halfway through and i was harassed by these tiny little creeping zombies which swarm your body. Not only that i was trying to dodge a freaking gyroscope spining around a rock whilst in zero gravity. This combination of sluggish camera movement, low health and a what seems to be an empty gun...it doesn't make for a fun play through.
The characters are boring.....especially Issac. You barely say anything and all you do is become the bitch of the black guy ordering you to fetch random bits of data. Strangely enough, Issac's wife is also on the ship who seems oddly calm about her surroundings. One such moment is that you have to protect her whilst she unlocks a door or something and zombies pop up from behind her and claws at her. Maybe she's made of steel but she walks out of the room after as if nothing has happened. At least limp or something woman!
Fine I do admit there are some neat little bits and pieces in the game. For one it sounds great. The creaking of the ship when you're walking through the corridor or the silence of space, it does a great job of keeping you immersed, aided by the lack of a HUD it's a no brainer that it makes you feel apart of the game. There's also a cool little stasis thing which allows you to manipulate objects like pick things up and throw it across a room through the power of science *COUGH GRAVITY GUN HALF LIFE 2* which not only becomes a tool for plugging in power nodes but can be used to hurl bits of scrap into the zombies itself....or you can throw the power node itself and lose it like i did....*got lodged into the world geometry somehow*
So what do i ultimately think?.....It's not horrible the game....it makes good use of the strategic dismemberment and the weapons provided are interesting enough (although how is a contact beam supposed to be a mining tool?) and i suppose if you play it in bursts it would keep you going till the finish.
But overall...it's rent worthy but certainly not worth the initial $100 you pay.
Incidentally you could use that money to buy my lovely arielle a birthday present :D
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