Comments on: Cry Of The Infected Demo

By: fern

fern — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:37:58 +0000

Hey Karl I destroyed the box but I don’t see what it does really….
*spoiler*
i think one can jump out the window to continue to level 2 without breaking it =S

By: Karl

Karl — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:12:04 +0000

I’ve given up – sometimes it crashed, then I spent 15 mins reloading, then I would try something else. But at the end of one level it crashes while loading the next and there is nothing I can do to get around it.

The game developer was helpful enough to email when I was stuck because of the difficulty though. Don’t read on if you want to try the game in normal mode first.

***spoiler***

LVL 1 destroy the utility box at the bottom of the stairs and investigate.

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:09:48 +0000

PPS I just realised that EVERY time you run the game it decrypts all the files. From starting the game to playing the level took 15 minutes. And I still can’t get past the same soldier – no tactic seems to work. Argh.

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:38:39 +0000

PS, two tips:
- On level one, if you seem to get stuck in the middle of the final room, crouch. No reason why you should be stuck, but it was the only way I could move on.
- If you reload the game your ‘hands’ are hidden and you can’t attack. Use the scroll wheel. If you don’t have a scroll wheel you will have to restart the game…

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:34:36 +0000

The game IS available in the UK – it is download only. I bought it last night for £2.71 on Paypal.

Unfortunately the two big problems for me are:
1: Difficulty. It took 6 attempts to get past the two soldiers in level 2. I tried walking towards them (no run, understandably). Dead. I tried the door opposite. It won’t open. I got shot. Dead. I tried peeping, then only walked towards them when one was behing the other, hoping he would shoot his friend. Dead. This came across as unfair and not fun. Maybe if you peeped out and one soldier ran to investigate and then you grabbed him, it would have been doable. I just had to keep trying.

2: Load times. The first time I ran it it took c.15 minutes to get to the ‘New game’ screen as it decrypted files. And loading a level took a few minutes (longer to load than the level lasted). I could have put up with this but when you die, even if you reload a save on the same level, it loads the whole thing again. So on bit with the two soldiers above I would wait for three minutes or so for it to load. I would be shot within ten seconds. Reload. Shot. It took over half an hour to get past two soldiers, most of it loading time.

I am on level 4, and there is one soldier hiding behind a crate. I am wounded. So every time I atack him he shoots me and I die. My only option is to start all over again, but the crippling load times and the unfairness of having to just walk towards someone with a machine gun makes me dread it. Nonetheless I always try to finish a game before giving my final opinion.

On the plus side, the music is good and the loading screens look nice (the first time). Surprisingly it runs, even though there are no options at all apart from load and save and new game. You can’t change the resolution or controls (wasdf). Still, I want to know what happens.

I hadn’t realised you could pick boxes up. At first I tried picking up/activating everything. After nothing happened (except on some doors) I stopped, so never tried picking up boxes. It sounds like they don’t help.

Is there a cheat of some kind so I can see the whole game once without the frustration of the reload times and constant dying?

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:32:40 +0000

There’s definately nowt funnier than a Zombie running down a darkened alley shouting “where’s my wife!?”

By: Sal

Sal — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:33:16 +0000

WTF is this S?

By: Chris R

Chris R — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:13:21 +0000

Fair enough Luke, most of the fellows here are mostly amused at the humor in the video, so please don’t get too offended! (like a certain VDweller did) ;)

Gameplay should be king, so I will check out your game based on what you said above.

By: Luke314pi

Luke314pi — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:14:53 +0000

Hey guys, I am Luke Porter, the creator of this game. Yes, this work is largely the work of one person. Without a standard development team of over 100 people on a first person shooter, the graphics and gameplay are not going to be like Bioshock or CoD4. But I can promise a fun story that doesn’t take itself too seriously, and a game concept that hasn’t been visited too many times before.

By: Optimaximal

Optimaximal — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:50:04 +0000

Yet another ‘commercial’ result of that abomination that is ‘FPS Creator’.

PCZone wasn’t joking when they said that the only games you can really created are military shooters and zombie shooters… I suppose some kudos are due for them making you a zombie killing the military rather than the other way around :)

By: teo

teo — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:38:04 +0000

looks like a HL1 mod

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:20:38 +0000

This game looks to have everything!

Great story!
Great dialogue!
Inventive environments!
An engrossing protagonist!

I want it. Now.