Zero Hour

This is currently one of the most frustrating games, and I certainly wouldn't recommend it now. I have 60+ hours in the game and had a great time for a lot of it; however, I can not recommend it at this point since: - It's abandoned by the developers - Accidentally shooting a teammate means a full ban for 3 matches - That ban means you *CANNOT COMNMUNICATE WITH YOUR TEAMMATES* No chat, no VOIP - Without teammate comms you can't tell WHO IS A TEAMMATE which is why you were banned for 3 games in the first place In short, it's un-playable in its current state. If someone turns off the electricity, you can't see *anything*. If you accidentally shoot a teammate during that blind part of the (only piece left of this game--PVP) you're shadow banned with no comms. No comms? That means no team development, apologies, or asking, "How do I turn on night vision?!" That means no fun. I'd love for the developers to leave a response, but I sincerely doubt they will.

Nothing about this game feels right, from the clunky movement to the janky combat to the outdated graphics, it's like a mobile game

Someone out there tricked Humble Bundle.

Can't recommend the game, had it for years literally. It was alright back in the day, had a lot of potential, it actually came out BEFORE RoN so people saying wanna be RoN and stuff like that are literal idiots. Ready or Not just did it differently and obviously better. If the game could have had more support it could have been better.

Zero Hour is often called the "Ready or Not budget version" by the community, and unfortunately, playing it makes it clear why. The game has an excellent premise and an attractive price, but the number of technical problems, bugs, and design decisions ultimately frustrate the tactical experience it promises to deliver. If you're thinking of buying it, here are the main problems you'll face: 1. Dead Multiplayer and Matchmaking If you want to play PvP or find cooperative public matches, give up. Matchmaking is problematic and the player base is tiny. Nowadays, you absolutely need to bring a squad of friends to enjoy the game. 2. Frustrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) The game's AI is a nightmare in two different extremes: Enemies have robotic and unfair auto-aim. It's very common to open a door and take an instant headshot from a hidden enemy, with no reaction time. Your team (Allied AI in solo mode) is practically useless. They only act as "meat shields". They don't know how to use the environment for cover, they don't look at their flanks, they get stuck in doorways, and they have absolutely no tactical awareness. 3. Clunky Movement and Animations Everything in the game feels too heavy, as if your character were walking on concrete. The animations (like arresting a suspect or the hostages walking) are very strange and poorly polished. Furthermore, interacting with the environment—like picking up a weapon dropped on the ground or cutting the wiring of a trap—is terrible because the interaction "hitbox" is tiny. You have to hunt for the right pixel on the screen. 4. Constant Desync in Co-op This is one of the factors that most breaks immersion. It's extremely common to be playing with friends and for the servers to suffer from delays (desync). One player ends up seeing an enemy in one place, while the other sees an empty room. Result: you die to an invisible enemy on your screen, but who was there for the server. 5. Unfair Penalty System The game attempts to simulate SWAT engagement rules, but the "unauthorized force" system is broken. Often you're facing an active threat and the game punishes you for shooting. If you hesitate to try and subdue the suspect, you get shot and die. Verdict: Zero Hour screams "Early Access" in almost everything it does. If you don't have a PC (or budget) to run Ready or Not, and you REALLY want a SWAT-style experience, only buy Zero Hour if it's on a good sale and only if you have friends to play with. If your intention is to play alone relying on AI or trying to find random online matches, save your money, because you'll only get frustrated.

This game had a lot of potential quite some time ago but now its just COD slop. If you want a slow paced tactical shooter, go buy Ready or Not, if you want a fast paced action packed leanspamming shoot em up where youre also a police offer but have to fight 30+ suspects a mission, play this game.

This game offers good amount of fun even at full price with really high potential but developers abandoned the game and immediately started developing new wannabe John-Wick-story-action-shooter

I want to preface this first by stating: I'm coming straight from having been a long-time player of Ready or Not. This is too janky for me. I'm coming from having been a life-long player of the SWAT tactical shooter series and of the game Ready or Not since it's alpha and beta builds. Having experienced high quality animations, very well put together controls, well programed AI for both teammates and suspects, Zero Hour is so far below the bar that has been set. Now granted, Zero Hour does have some features that I think are fantastic such as introducing the ability to utilize a K9, and it's multiplayer offerings. However, my intent was to also experience the game solo and it was just abysmal for me. I don't like the stiff animations, the default controls I wasn't a fan of, mainly because I'm coming from Ready or Not's control schemes. The squad command system wasn't really working for me. By default, you press the mouse scroll wheel to bring up the command prompts however I wasn't able to scroll through the options. I couldn't find how to do it. Aside from that, the animations for the squad AI sucked. I know I keep making this comparison, but going from Ready or Not to Zero Hour, I couldn't do it. The lack of polish Zero Hour has is no contest to Ready or Not. The gunplay, the sounds, the animations, the controls... For me, any fun factor was lost. In my opinion, Zero Hour may be good for gamers as far as multiplayer goes, but if you're like me and, more often than not you don't have a squad to do co-op with, and you want to enjoy a solo playthrough of the story, go with Ready or Not. What Zero Hour has is a decent multiplayer, some good gameplay features like the K9, and a max of 10-player co-op. But, if you're coming from Ready or Not, the quality difference may be a turn off for you like it was for me.