I rescind my comment at the bottom of this that I think this may be good eventually.
The majority of the gameplay is running to checkpoints that are too far away (possibly to force the use of vehicles that are either bugged or I don't know how to use them because they require an item from the shop which doesn't have english language text) & without the vehicles it is just a war of attrition between swathes of zombie assets/some sort of ant or spider, the horrific aiming & the sheer mind numbing boredom of it all.
I had written down some Pro's but I'll save them to see if finishing whatever arduos 'gameplay' this current version outweighs their inclusion.
I have previously written that the Doctor Watson games were so buggy & boring that it felt like it was actually being aggressive towards me for paying for the game, this may get added to that list, who knows if patches during Early Access will save it from the fate of some guy not thinking it's any good; time will tell.
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*Patch has been issued addressing critiscisms I've made below, will be playing shortly to see how that moderates my feelings towards the game, so the below is no longer accurate (& in the case of misidentifying Ukrainian language as Russian, that part was never accurate to begin with & for that I am sorry.*
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After putting an additional 2 hours with the patched version & finding a lot of annoying issues that I posted into the Screenshots page for this game & will write up my notes tomorrow when for some reason I'll be playing more of this, my opinion hasn't changed at all. This could be good, but it needs a lot of fixing in the Early Access period to even approach decency.
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When a game greets me with a splash screen that the game was "mostly made by one person, I tried to make it of good quality & interesting." I'm immediately put on edge.
Then the options screen was partially in russian, so I tried changing it to the english option, but nothing changed & so I changed it to russian & realised that the english settings in this admittedly Early Access title were just 'less russian' than the russian language settings.
Then an actually pretty cinematic opening cutscene with probably unintentionally hilarious 'english' voice acting & scripting, but it's unskippable & too long & basically, you are in a plane over a desert & you get shot & crash.
You then are dumped into a long hallway with no sprint, once you get to the end of the hallway you get in the plane from the cutscene & then you wake up in the desert were you crashed in the cutscene, I guess this is either out of order or was felt to be needed Prologue, otherwise we'd just assume we were born with that plane already in the air, how else could the events have played out thusly.
Anyway, so you're in the desert. You still can't sprint & there isn't context as to where you should be going, so you wander forwards, then more hilarious voice acting & suddently a marker off to the right, so you need to slowly walk over there while one of the 2 music tracks kicks in.
You can toggle between the music tracks the 2 key & disabled with the 3 key, the game even pops up cover art & band/track info in the corner of the screen, you don't often see that in games which makes me think this developer is in or knows people in the 2 bands (the songs weren't bad & I'd say they were the best part of the game, but I'm not likely to re-spend the $4.24 that I'll be being refunded on this, to buy them).
You walk all the way back to the marker & suddenly you are in a too dark cave & can sprint finally, out of nowhere we realise that now we are free from the confines of the plane which we weren't born & raised in, that we can run freely (also there are zombies in the cave, because of course there are zombies) & it seemed like you use RMB to aim & use the flashlight, couldn't seem to use a flashlight (which is too bright & crap when I wasn't aiming) & you didn't seem to be able to sprint while aiming & then I took 2 hits and died which sent me back to the main menu to consider watching the unskippable cutscene again before slowly wandering to the caves once more.
I didn't consider it worth it.
This could be good, eventually, although I'm mainly basing that on finding the voice acting amusing; if sprint gets patched in the opening sections in the next couple of days & the opening cutscene is skippable then I probably won't return it, that's possibly a stretch, I might play it again before returning it to see if it suddenly becomes good after that short zombie gameplay in which I died, but it just feels too sluggish to do over again with 2 hits of health to end up playing yet another janky zombie shooter on Steam.
