Outbreak: Contagious Memories

(For context I played this with split-screen co-op with an xbox one controller) Absolutely god awful tier controls, your actions are unbelievably delayed and your character is as slow as a sloth. The knife in particular is basically useless with how slow you use it. You can't even move with the d-pad in a game that supports classic tank controls (at least not by default??). The classic RE games had a greater degree of movement. You die in like 2-3 hits and the zombies are absolute bullet sponges that can't be shoved away or dodged/parried so that will happen quick.

This game just sucks. The controls are wonky, takes forever to swing and hit something, just not worth the money. I find more satisfaction playing Resident Evil Outbreak then this ripoff. Also damn near impossible playing with two people, one person opens their menu, it opens it for both, just screws up the gameplay with two people. If this game is on sale, and if you want to have a terrible time, get this game.

Quite bad survival horror game. I don't understand how this has 65 % positive reviews. -Terrible controls -looks like sh*t -quite buggy -unbalanced or at least I thought so when playing my first run on the easiest difficulty. As I am pretty sure this was somehow not the easiest difficulty in the game after trying a second run after finishing my first because then there was way more ammo and other items laying around -way too many loading screens, like from starting the game to actually playing you get 6 loading screens! After every frickin door you get another one, super annoying

联机一起玩的话操作有点僵硬，打开背包2个人都要暂停，观看字条2个人都无法前进，希望可以分开来，还有那个hunter太难打了，只有喷子好打，手枪2个人要打16打才能打死，人能人死2回了

Nur am Anfang fühle ich mich wohl im Spiel. Toller Grafikstil und toller Sound! Leider musste ich schnell feststellen, dass die Zombies viel zu viele Treffer vertragen. So kommt man nur mit sehr viel Glück voran. Only at the beginning, I felt comfortable in the game. Great graphic style and great sound! Unfortunately, the zombies are very difficult to hit properly. Most head shots don't hurt them at all, so you can only make progress in the game with a lot of luck.

This game is a love letter to the original RE games. Crafted by a one man dev team this is a work of passion on his part. Every little detail nods back to the originals from the menu colors and fonts, the audio and camera angles. Of course its rough around the edges - but even the originals were and they had a full team. This game is like watching a horror b-movie where its very rawness becomes an aesthetic that adds to the experience. Once you get into the swing of things the game is good fun. Old school tank movement system takes you back to that fear you felt playing the first RE game back on the PS1. Its inventory system is a strong dose of nostalgic goodness right into your arteries. Limited ammo and resources. Slow movement and lots of zombies to kill. Its all there.

The outbreak series is one of my favorite resident evil inspired games, sure the graphics might be a little off but the solo game dev really put a genuine effort emulating the game style of resident evil. Every latest edition of every outbreak game shows lots of improvement, one example from this game in particular is the added voice acting which gives a break from only listening to zombies and Lynda groaning from being hit. I look forward to the dev making another great game with newer and improved features.

Hmm its ok

Figure this is probably the end of my personal support to the studio. From the great love I felt for the 1st "Outbreak", it's only been a downward spiral and my heart now finally breaks at this title, btw the most expensive of the entire licence (!!). To be fair, I should leave a review for each of the 7 games I bought from DDS cause it feels that some had good things going for them. The problem is that the devs do not keep the good stuff from one title to another. They are just trying sumthin else, sumthin more, sumthin new every gd time and never aiming for 1 good finished product, while we are left financing their whimsical learning curves with half ass baked games... supposedly feeding us 90s vibes when it's mostly poor development choices. About that and to be frank, it's not even the matter of changing and trying new stuff. A FPS, a roguelite, a turn by turn strategy... hell, even a racing game could be fun and good ... as long as it's well done (which was never the case with DDS, except for their very 1st one) !! Then some details : - Voice dubbing is still bad and they say it's cheese. Dead Rising is cheesy. This is just bad. - Animation and movement is heavy as sh@$, character gets blocked/stuck by environment, camera options don't help. They say it's 90s nostalgia. It's bad character build and bad chara/environment collision management and it's making it very disagreeable to play. But let's just check the achievements ratio (surprised Steam is even allowing them here). I managed to play 100 minutes like 1 out 5 players. Meaning 80 % of the players who bought a game sold @ 25 bucks could not beat themselves to play more than 1,5 bad hour. Fact = The fact that it is a lil more beautifully done than the previous titles doesn't matter to a player base who won't even play the game. It only matters to the devs own sense of inner pride.

If you're a fan of retro survival horror I'd recommend that you give this game a go. What sets this game apart is the ability to switch between 3 camera perspectives. You can play in First Person, Third Person, or with Fixed Camera Angles (Just like old school Resident Evil and Silent Hill). Better yet you can switch it with the touch of a button. The more time I spent with this game the more I loved it. The atmosphere of this game is so extremely well done that when not being chased by Zombies I took the time to look around. It's not without its flaws, but even those are a part of its charm. It can be a bit difficult for those who aren't veterans of the genre, but once you learn the ins and outs out the game, it becomes far easier. The series has a bright future ahead of it and I can't wait to see what comes next!