Zombies zombies zombies. Zombies zombies zombies. Zombies. This one could go huge, I suspect. It’s the next game from the makers of the evergreen Red Orchestra, and it’s stealing a little bit of long-term supporters Valve’s thunder by being a co-op zombie shooter. Cheeky! Left 4 Dead 1.5 it ain’t though, thanks to more arena-like playing areas, abilities beyond simple shooting and healing, and persistent player upgrades. It’s a lot more OTT and Doom-y than L4D, too.
Reportedly, preorders have been pretty high. Us gentlemen of the internet do so enjoy shooting zombies in the head, after all. It went live on Steam today for a reasonable price, and while RPS hasn’t been blessed with a review copy yet, we hope to have some sort of verdict very soon. Anyone else playing it yet? Whaddaya think?
Below the magic words of information protection, some video footage of this violent delight.
Oh, and it’s based on an old UT2004 mod, which looks a little bit like this:
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Without a demo, I don’t have much incentive. The video isn’t really enough.
Dominic White : The pre-order price outside the USA (excluding Europe) was 11.24$ and the game is priced at 14.99$
Chis : The developers have stated that there will not be a demo. They will, however, have free weekends for the game and i *strongly* suggest waiting for it to make any purchase decision.
Abhishek: Wasn’t aware about their free weekends (for this game), I shall keep that in mind, cheers.
Great game. It does have some downsides when it comes to third-person animations (some can be downright ugly!) and the maps are very undetailed at times. But Tripwire are one of those companies that keeps developing their games for years after release, so I’m sure stuff like this will change. Still, it is awesome fun to play with a few friends just because of the simple fact that butchering zombies and coming up with new tactics is great!
Isn’t it considered copyright infringement or some kind of infringement when you take known music from an already established series and put it in your game and sell that game to make money?
Unless they have permission from whomever owns the copyright, yes it is copyright infringement – doesn’t matter if its known or not however, still an infringement.
The L4D SDK is in beta right now. If you sign up to the Steam beta program you can probably get access to it.
It’s far more visceral than Left4Dead and gives you far less margin for error. The variety of zombies is much better, the weapons give a far more satisfying boom and the game is hard as hell. Definitely worth the price of admission and as opposed to Demigod, the connection as server issues were sorted out in 12 hours flat. Very impressive, it runs pretty much perfectly now.
KF is amazingly fun, and if mixed with the right amount of alcohol becomes incredibly hilarious (think exploding fat men flying through the air funny). Tripwire knows how to make killing things fun (I personally recommend a shotgun/fireaxe combo). Very much worth the 20 dollars. They do need to spice up the trader dialog. I personally have no issue with the trader menu, it works fine and is very functional, not everything needs to be like tf2….
Still downloading it from steam.
I have to say Killing Floor was somewhat of a disappointment to me. I can partly see why people seem to like it so much. Guns feel like they pack a punch, visceral, gore-fest. But when it comes down to it. The ZED time gets a tad gimmicky, the frequently repeated dialogue (we’re talking over 10 times a minute if a group are welding a door) starts to grate. Not only that but it just feels like a mod, and not in a good way. Not my cup of tea but it’s only my opinion. I’ll stick to Left 4 Dead methinks.
Urgh. Money wasted. If I could get a refund, I would do it without one iota of hesitation and be very happy.
Well, looks like this game is already growing. Some maps from the mod version are already being cross-ported, and people have found out how to raise the maximum player-count beyond the usual 6.
For those of you with a monster-huge server and bandwidth to spare, try hosting a 16+ player game. You’ll be drowning in zombies in no time.
easy mode is a nice gentle intro to how the game works
evry thing eles is a murder sim……your murder, and then being eaten
Yeah, I have to say, it just got old for me. No variety, no strategy, it’s like a throwback to the mid 90s, bland, generic enemies, and it even finishes with a shitty boss. I enjoyed it, and got sick of it. L4D is a cinematic product, Killing Floor… it’s just a zombie mod. Feels like one, plays like one, and doesn’t have anything all that unique about it.
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