Okay, my first impressions:
First off, READ THE README. If you just start right into the game (like I did), you will die within a few short moments as a zombie bites your face off while you yell at your character to shoot it.
Oh wait, the readme doesn't actually tell you what the actual commands are. It just says "Push ATTACK KEY to attack". Helpful as that is, I'll just list the commands that I found:
Ctrl - Attack/interact. This will likely be the first button you push.
Spacebar - Character screen. Hold this down and use the arrow keys to wander around your inventory screen, Use Ctrl when you want to interact with something, and notice the big red circle. That's your health. I have no idea how it actually represents this, but it does. Really.
Arrer Keyz - There are two different ways these work, depending on your menu settings. "Absolute" will have your character moving on the cardinal directions (3D environment, by the way), while "Relative" will turn your character left and right or move him forward and back.
?? - "Quick special" key. I have no idea what this is, but it's referred to in the readme, so I assume it must exist. Apparently, it does something.
Now, onto the rest of the game. First point: Play as a doctor. The game will automatically heal you after a short time of just sitting around. I cannot possibly overstate the usefulness of this. Also, the revolver is a good, solid weapon with a lot of ammo. A wonderful combination.
Second point: You will constantly have people nagging you to "only kill when you have to" and "conserve ammo". At the time, I was about four minutes into the game, and had 224 rounds in a gun that could blow the head off a zombie in one shot. I wasn't taking them very seriously.
Third point: NPC apparently stands for "No Personal Caution". These are people who redefine artificial stupidity, and who do not understand that second bit of "RUN AWAY!".
I had a girl following me that you may very well meet. Her name's Ashley, and she deserves to die. Horribly.
She's one who will nag you about not shooting everything in sight, and then RUN STRAIGHT INTO A HORDE OF ZOMBIES. WITH A POCKET KNIFE.
You can spend a few medkits and save her, or you can ignore her and blow her brains out the back of her head when she finally succumbs to infection. You know you want to. Don't know why? Here's why:
The second thing she nags you about is
herself. She will stop every few seconds (apparently she does not have the mental capacity to walk and talk at the same time) and spout some nonsense about how "We're going to end up like those things!", or "We're not going to make it!". No,
you're not going to make it, oh divine beauty of walk-inside-a-building-while-I-walk-down-the-alley intelligence. The only reason you're not dead now is because I can't shoot team members, and you provide something else for the zombies to chew on.
That, and she starts doing "last breath" speeches when her health falls below the halfway mark.
Moving on, we cover the missions/staying alive section. You want money, so you can buy food and other fun stuff. How do you get money? By taking missions from neutral people (three factions, neutral is the only one that gives paying missions). Well, I took a mission from a neutral person, and he said he needed a package delivered to Melanie (I can't remember the name) by 5:47 AM tomorrow morning.
I'm going to ignore the absurdly precise time limit in favor of pointing out that I don't know who Melanie
is. Or, more importantly,
where she is. And dude-wearing-shades is apparently giving me this mission as a test of my deductive and investigative skills, as he's not giving me any help.
My deductive and investigative skills are worth more than $200. Especially when you need $1000 to buy a chainsaw.
All in all, it's actually not that bad. Yet. Just be aware of the things I pointed out, and please make sure to read the readme. Once you give it a try, you'll find a game with a 3D environment and 2D characters, which has proven throughout game history to be the greatest stage for excessive gore.
Yes, you can shoot someone's head off with a revolver, and then kick it around like a soccer ball.
Also, everyone looks like they're from South Park.
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