Might try it sometime, is it a big file?

Yay!

I got this running now and it's really good fun. IGN and Gamespot weren't joking about the small amounts of ammo, it's great reloading just in time and squeezing off a slow shot from the revolver just as one of the buggers is about to bite you.

I was playing it with the lights turned off and the sounds and the fact that the zombies can burst through from a number of different places were creeping me out: especially when the body bags moved (I tried to blow them up with a grenade but it wouldn't let me, which was a shame).

Those acid zombies are nasty and I swear one exploded with acid as I shot it, it's also pretty evil the way your view becomes obscured from the acid.

I encountered about 4 at once but from what I've seen of footage from a gas station level it looks like there's larger numbers later on.

With this being online too it's going to be high on my 'to get' list, it's certainly no Doom 3 but I think they've made the right decisions and made a really fun zombie game here. :)

Yeah, I was exaggerating with the 'dozen or so' comment, merely trying to point out it's annoying to get hurled on by zombies when I'm trying to fight off others at the same time, with rubbish weapons.

Chippxero wrote:
> WHAT?
>
> I didn't get any dozen zombies,

Most I got on screen was 4.

Pandaemonium wrote:
> cipro wrote:
> And while I haven't seen the movie, I think I'm
> right in guessing it doesn't contain acid spitting zombies?
>
> Nope, but that's one part of the game I really thought was cool. But
> then, I love seeing bowking zombies.

I just found them annoying, no so much because they threw up acid, but that they did it when I already surrounded by a dozen or so zombies which I failed to keep at bay thanks to the rubbish weapons. And I'm sure one them exploded too. Man this game is wierd, and crap.

cipro wrote:
> And while I haven't seen the movie, I think I'm
> right in guessing it doesn't contain acid spitting zombies?

Nope, but that's one part of the game I really thought was cool. But then, I love seeing bowking zombies.

monkey_man wrote:
> Oh dear, that stank.  Worst demo ever, the presentation was the
> most scary thing.

Just put my finger on something. It plays, looks and feels very, very similar to Postal 2, but without the over the top setting fire to people, p**** them out and taking their heads off with a spade (which to be honest was the only reason to play Postal 2, which was using dated tech before it was even released)

Not yet, will it run on a 450?

Edit: I tend to rule out PC demos because of my comp's low specs and because I don't like the controls.

I have seen the demo footage and although the Zombies appear slow I think limited ammo + large numbers of zombies could equal some frantic fun.

Well I didn't think much of the Max Payne demo which went pretty far but the finished product was a lot better.

Hedfix wrote:
> But a lot of them aren't good representations of the full product.
> They're simply small tasters.

Not so with PC demos, they're normally so you can see whether the damn thing will run on your damn system.  I think we've got to the stage now where bugs and errors are fixed via patch downloads, which isn't as common with consoles (yet).

I never listern to reviews as other peoples opinions ma not be shared by me thats the point of a demo so people can get their own views of the game.

The only time i'd look a game that i wouldn't normally is if it was recommended by someone i knew had a simlar taste in games to me.

Demos are normally released to entice people in to wanting the game, if a demo is seen as poor by someone they are not going to bother with the full game.

I’m sure someone will like the game from the demo but for me it showed something that isn’t worth me checking out.

Hopefully they will release a multiplayer demo then as it sounds much better.

With just playing the single player demo theres no way i'd bother with the game.

Nope just one 4 objective area/level thing.

Multiplayer would be good if you had to protect a relatively large complex from zombie invasion in a co-op style, with different areas breaching at different times against silly amounts of zombies. Not sure what the actual multiplayer is though.

Once it's released as it's an unreal engine based game it wouldn't be to hard to produce that on a simple scale using the editor.

I suppose using the an older unreal engine they don't alienate people with lower specs like F.E.A.R. is going to.

It's multi-format though so the fact that it uses an Unreal engine doesn't surprise me.

I believe this is the title where they had to shop around for a new publisher because the division of Hip games that was publishing the title went belly-up.

No doubt there's a good reason for releasing it now (I expect the DVD of the movie's out soon) also there's Stubbs coming out, 2 Cthulu games (I think, one may be out in a while) and other Zombie games on current consoles and the upcoming 360 are out soon so it pays for them to get the jump on those. Also if the Suffering 2 sells out they can sell off the back of that title as similarly-themed films have done for a while now.

4 hours sleep or have you been up all-night like me?

You are basing this on a demo and some demos are very easy as they're usually comprised of the introduction levels of a game.

Later on it might get harder. Zombies are supposed to learn right? And the movie had them being able to use guns etc so I expect there's room for the game's difficulty to shift upwards as it progresses.