| blackstarr said: This has been posted earlier, I think, but Polygon's review: http://www.polygon.com/game/zombiu/2678 is really interesting. It gave it an 8. I trust Polygon and Destructoid the most, and they both had very positive things to say about the game. Can somebody explain why the scores vary so much...? I feel like sometimes people are talking about two different games when I read these reviews. |
I think it's a combination of what Jim Sterling said about looking at the game through a certain lens and some people expecting the game to play like a L4D style shoot em up when you have to be more methodical and careful. In ZombiU from what I understand you're meant to avoid confrontation as much as you possibly can rather then run in gung ho into a horde of Zombies whether it means running, sneaking past them or even shooting a gas canister to clear a path to run past. Even just 3 to 4 Zombies can overwhelm you, it's also worth noting that your surviver improves over time, they become better at shooting and combat where as in the beginning they're quite clumsy referencing the fact that you're not a military train action.
A number of players who run in and get killed often will have problems with the combat as their survivor will never improve (your new survivor doesn't retain the improved attributes of the old), combat is there but not as a main goal, it's the overall surviving that's goal and this is what is conflicting people it seems.
