Dead Purge: Outbreak

The developer of this game approached me via email to ask if I, a "content creator", would be interested in it. I figured, eh, it doesn't look awful, maybe it'll be a decent half hour of whatever. I admit my eye isn't especially well trained to spot Unity Asset Store flips, but this game does make it pretty insanely obvious - most of the stuff in this game comes from within the first page of search results for very basic terms, and there are really, really clear signs (like screens that outright say "OFFICE PACK" on them) that this isn't really the creator's own work. Even beyond the asset flips, I wasn't thrilled with how guns work, the economy isn't very well balanced, grenades are too dangerous to use in 90% of situations, it's too easy to get stuck on things, and there's only really two kinds of zombies (walking and crawling). It comes off as a frankly amateurish rip-off of Killing Floor 2 - I'm pretty sure the shop interface is meant to be a complete mirror of KF2's, in fact. On the technical end of things, I found that the game would slow down a lot for no reason (an underperforming machine will actually bog down the game speed, not just the frame rate), the ACTUAL slow-motion effect takes entirely too long (fortunately you can force it to end by reloading), there's a Melee Attack key but it only works on a small handful of the guns, controls cannot be rebound, menus indicate support for gamepads but my gamepad was doing absolutely nothing...there are things in place here that make me wonder if the devs did anything more than rudimentary testing on it. I haven't paid for it, but in my opinion, neither should anybody else. If what you're after is a by-the-numbers zombie shootin' game, there's so many better ones out there for your $15.

Whilst this game is a bit of fun, unfortunately, I can't recommend it, at least not for the price tag. Basically, the game is lower quality and smaller version of Killing Floor, the graphics look good with plenty of blood and gore if that's your thing, but I'm afraid its let down by the low-quality gameplay and controls. Hit detection can be way off, damage doesn't feel much difference between weapons and so many invisible things you get stuck on around the maps, zombie variety is few and far between as well, there isn't a great deal to it at all. I didn't have any performance issues tho, but the controls do feel slow and clunky so everything combined just stops the game from feeling fluid IMO. But overall I have had some short fun on this, the achievements can be completed fine but for 100% its a grind, the game just needs a lot more variety with everything and bigger, better maps, then they need to clean it up and rework a fair few things and make it run a lot more fluid and interesting instead of having to just spend hours standing there firing your pistol at the same wave of zombies over and over.

From my Steam refund request: It crashed twice in the few minutes I played, but multiple additional technical bugs popped up in just the few minutes I tried the game, including being stuck in a doorframe, watching zombies spawn-pop in just a couple dozen feet away, realization the arenas were tiny.....hell, realization that it's just a survival/horde mode game and nothing more. This was horrible....it had one negative review already and I thought the guy might be trolling but nope, it was actually worse than he said. On the plus side: the art assets weren't too bad and it looked about like it does in the pics. If this is Unity 5, I wonder what a really good game would look like using that engine?

The game contains three maps (with some time-of-day variations) that are small and consist of narrow pathways that make it far too easy to funnel zombies in a line. The difficulty and game length (using the same number of waves as Killing Floor 2, though without the boss) can be adjusted. The is no multiplayer available. The weapon variety is very limited, and there are no classes for special abilities. Researched upgrades can be done between games to improve accuracy and health. Health packs are useful to heal, and grenades are very powerful against the groups of zombies. There are only two enemy types in the game (walking, and crawling on the ground), and zombies can be easily lead into certain death by sprinting back and forth down the same straight path and then aiming for the head. Bullet time is stolen directly from Killing Floor 2, and the gore is not as convincing. Dead Purge: Outbreak is a direct clone of Killing Floor 2 that is worse in every area and doesn’t offer anything new or different. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug7RZ_BFF-4

Here's a short video review I made for the game. It gives you a good idea of the gameplay and how the game works. Video review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVRc34waW5E In short, don't buy this game. It lacks multiplayer, a variety of game modes, weapons, maps, etc. It feels more like a demo than a full fledged game. The game itself does actually look decent graphically and sounds ok. The combat is ok but it won't leave you engaged for very long, especailly without multiplayer, and only two modes, horde, and survival. If you're really hell bent on getting the game, wait for a steam sale. As it is right now the asking price is way too high for what essentially feels like a demo.

https://cowlevel.net/game/Dead_Purge_Outbreak/review/2560099 首先，感谢野蔷薇及开发者给我的这次机会，本人是为忠实的FPS类粉丝，也很高兴能有机会抢先测评。 本作的可取之处不多，可以说，本作几乎完全是按照Killing Floor的风格来的。但是只取了Killing Floor的部分系统，因此先阶段达到的层次也只不过是Killing Floor阉割版的级别而已。 和Killing Floor一样，本作有着机器瞄准，波次的僵尸设置，每波结束后的购买时间，投掷物，甚至部分装备系统。首先吐槽下本作的枪械系统，作为一个伪资深的FPS玩家，对于本作枪械的手感只能用一句话来形容：Arma3的枪模，Overwatch的手感。本作的所有枪都完完全全的没有后坐力，指哪打哪，稳得不行。并且散弹什么的，子弹都没有什么扩散机制，准星还是这么小，因此机器瞄准在本作中和没有一个样。 其次，本作的可玩性可以说是完全没有的。大类两种，一种波次级，一种无限僵尸，地图也是平面式展开，死胡同较多，甚至没有能绕来绕去的结构。僵尸只有两种，一种站着一种趴着，是的，你没看错，从头到尾就这两种。没有特感，没有Boss，有的仅仅只是贴图变了。 不过，起码，本作还是有一个优点的，画质不错，光影效果做的挺炫的，模型什么的都挺精细的，除此以外，好像没啥亮点了。 最后，惯例总结下，本作就是个强行阉割版的Killing Floor，阉割了职业设定，武器数量，地图数量，地图大小，僵尸种类，僵尸AI，联机模式，枪械手感，游戏模式，但是提升了画质的Killing Floor。

My favorite part is the grenades that can blow up the entire map and crash my computer

The game looks great, they picked some solid assets and it performs decently well on my 1070 up untill you max out things like the more advanced anti aliasing. Otherwise this is a pretty strandard issue zombie horde shooter. You can either do it in waves, or an endless survival mode which depends on drops from the Zombies you kill. There is a small variety of weapons you can buy and unlock, but nothing super interesting. Just your run of the mill military weapons. Everything works in the current build (I had a few interface bugs which made the game unplayable initially), but there's just not much to do in the game. Its pretty but boring. You can see my video where I go into more detail here: https://youtu.be/btusJxyrE3s

(Full Disclaimer: I received a copy of the game from the Developers for free) A developer whose track record consists of billiards and mini golf games, then churning out a "survival" FPS zombie shooter? That already sounds like the death knell for this game out of the gate. Regardless, I went into it with an open mindset, as I have certainly been surprised in the past by the likes of Contagion. I was sorely disappointed about 10 minutes in. While the overall polish looks decent for a first entry into the FPS genre, everything went downhill from there. There are probably about 4 different zombie models and 3 maps, alongside 2 "different" game modes. And I can't help but assume that a lot of these assets were purchased off the Unity store (or at least could have been) as they are so woefully uninspired. Uninspired is probably the word you'll be thinking most during any period of time you play this game. The gunplay isn't abysmal but there's no real weight to anything you do. The zombies listlessly attack from seemingly 2-3 feet away. The environments have a good look to them but still feel like a UDK template. And the lack of any real challenge or increase in tension just turn this into a shooter template Unity could include with their engine as a jumping-off point. If you're looking for a game in this same vein that would actually be fun, Killing Floor has been free in the past and does this type of game unspeakably better. Don't waste $15 on this. The only way they could redeem this would be to MAYBE add in co-op and reduce the price to less than $5. As for now there's no reason to purchase this game. For more information or gameplay footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0B4B8hAA8k

Very generic. Not recomended. I only played for about 10 minutes, but I feel like I've seen the whole game. Not good for a game that costs $15. I mean, it LOOKs nice enough, but it doesn't play well. The environments are very small, even the outdoors ones. The weapons, are unsatisfying. (Maybe the unlockables are better, but that doesn't help. Why should I play long enough to unlock them?) All of that combines to make it feel like you're in an old Benny Hill sketch. The winning strat is to run backwards in a small circle.