Recent reviews by Laces115

We successfully bullied Sony into abandoning their plans! We're free!

LONG LIVE DEMOCRACY

NOTE: The reason my playtime is so low is that I use Source Ports.

Decades later, it still is a fantastic, timeless game.

You should absolutely use mods (referred to as WADs), for this game. Zandronum is highly recommended, because it's the most popular multiplayer-supporting source port.

The gunplay is satisfying, the artstyle is still nice, and the practically endless amount of mods mean boundless creativity and genious level and gameplay design. You WILL waste lots of time on this game. But it will be worth it 100%.

Leg hotboxes now. Also you can tell bots to hold their position (use Better Bots mod also for good team AI).

That alone makes me happy for no good reason. Anyways, game is quite enjoyable. Only get DLC on sale, it's not neccessary since the free weapons are basically the same or even better. DLC is just if you want to try new things, usually gimmicky weapons like launchers and bows.

8/10 for me, points off for bugs and overpriced DLC when not on sale.

This can be a great game. I just wish I was good at it enough to enjoy it more.

Wait... is... is there any reason to not have this game?

Is there a reason you need to read reviews to justify getting it?

No, no there's not. Get it if you haven't already.

Added to "Desperately needs a sequel" category for Steam Awards.

This game had potential, but it was quickly squandered.

First, the assets, my god the assets. As stated before, every model is ripped from Gamebanana, and all the textures in the maps are from Source engine games before. Graphically it has no origninality.

The maps are god-awful: wide-open with either too bright or too dark lighting, and textures, along with the basic cube geometry, and bland props, that make the maps dull and simply not fun. The only chance they have is community mods, if somebody decides to add some.

The gameplay feels like a bad mix of L4D's arcadey-gunplay and No Room in Hell's tactics of slower pace and teamwork reliance. It doesn't mix well. The classes are imbalanced in different ways (Technician is basically superior to the Pointman), making the skill with Battlefield squad tactics feel... useless. The weapons the classes have feel either too weak or too strong (the shotguns in particular are wonky: against normal zombies they die in one hit, but it takes maybe 6 shots to kill a damn zombie soldier), and the hit-detection is spotty at best, good luck if you're a sniper.

There's only 1 game-mode, which admittedly is kinda unique: you slowly clear room-to-room (except when zombies spawn behind your back all the time, the spawning system is terrible, it's no AI Director), until you reach a bombsite, plant a bomb, then haul-ass on a time-limit to extraction, giving a L4D finale vibe, without the special enemies or weapons.

The zombies are clearly reskinned Half-Life 2 zombies, using zombie assets I have seen in Garry's Mod addons. They have no special abilities or anything that makes them very intimidating: they either move fast, move slow, or have body armor. That's it. As stated before, they also get spawned even in places you JUST visited because you don't look in that room for a few seconds, then you look back and... yeah, a dozen of them suddenly spawned from some cyber-void to make your life miserable.

Sound is very lacking. The zombie sounds are mostly just HL2 zombie sounds, and the music gets very old, very fast. The guns don't sound quite right either... usually too quiet for what they SHOULD sound like.

Since few servers are around, I played with the bots and beat every map (they're short, and only 4 of them), the bots aren't that great either. It makes the Left 4 Dead bots look good: they get in the way of gunfire (and zombies), make no attempt to get near supply boxes, and there's no Technician or Support bots (I guess the dev didn't want to take the time to have them drop their deployables). The basic maps INCLUDED with the game the bots struggle to navigate, often getting caught in ramps, staircases, or basic walls, and the game just lazily teleports them to you. In fact, they know that the bots are so bad, that they have them respawn every 30 seconds or so, right on top of you.

To summarize, this game does nothing new and seems like an amateurish mod. Trying to mimick L4D's co-op, but lacking in the feeling of suspense, tension, adrenaline-fueled gunplay, or even remotely any semblance of fun.

Perhaps if the Dev makes better maps (or the community makes some), with more game-modes and enemy types, with better bots and hit-detection (for guns and zombie attacks both), I would revisit it.

Oh, also, you can even spawn the HL2 NPCs, which is good for a chuckle.

Yes. Yes.

GOD YES.

WHY ARE YOU STILL READING THIS, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ WATCH THIS MASTERPIECE ALREADY!

No more paid mods.

Game is good. It's all good. That's all you need to know.

Good for alt-tabbing and waiting for card drops.

Game itself is ♥♥♥♥ though.

10/10 economics over gameplay

All the servers lag horridly. It makes the game completley unplayable with how it freezes and stutters. And exiting the game doesn't help at all, it says I'm playing 'Source SDK 2007'.

Other source games play just fine, but this one does not. Not a problem with my PC, it is the game itself.

0/10 unplayable.