Ive picked it up on the xbox..im a few hours into the game and do you know what…im loving it..the world its set in is great and the graphics look great.Its got the whole level up,exp,rpg thing going on so it seems already to have a bit of depth to it.Ive no problems with the controls at all and ye..im surprised how much im loving it.I already prefer this over Deus Ex because its just so much fun and while i was playing on my own a message comes up telling me that theres another player nearby…do i want to join him and play coop with him..nice touch…so i did about 30 mins with him before he left..so id say its really good..well worth buying and its fun..lots of fun.

Ye im now about lvl 8-9..done quite a few hours and i love it..the only thing id put against it is the quests are samey…up to the point im at.Combat works well for me..just took on loads of lvl7 zombies and i kicked there arses..infact im finding it pretty easy so far…im just upgrading my weapons all the way.Id still say its a good buy…ye..its not the greatest game in the world but its still fun and who doesnt love zombies.

Wont be on tonight as im at work but il be on from Saturday..feel free to add me on xbox or ps3..gamertag is the same for both consoles..  cramtheman  ..and il be on Resistance 3 aswell.

Interestingly, having decided to pick this one up on xbox, didn't have any patch to install on booting the game up yesterday so can only assume xbox patch not yet released.  Thanks for the heads up though, Defiant Biscuit, have got the feeling that any patch probs for the ps3 will probably also be present on other formats so I will also hold out before installing if I can…

best tactic seems to be to have a seperate game to be playing online

tried multi with some randoms today. onw lad just ran off doing the main quests whereas we were doing the side ones

great fun still

The Defiant Biscuit said:

Got up to Act 3 last night and came close to throwing the controller a number of times due to the sheer frustration of being swamped by running zombies that combo attack and the inane amount of fetch quests. It felt like the game was saying “Go to A, then die, then go to B but die along the way, now go back to A but die straight afterwards then back to B again to die one more time”.

There are times when I love the game, when it works well it works great, taking out a whole horde of walkers with an electrified machete is awesome but the game seems to depend on co-op gamers which sucks for a loner like me. I can imagine the planning process (read in a Polish accent for authenticity):

Planner 1: “so at this section the player has to walk down a long empty road but the trick is that there are going to be infinite re-spawning zombies to chase him”

Planner 2: “but if he dies won’t he loose his money from previous fetch quests? All that constant death must be frustrating”

Planner 1: “ah but the other plays will heal him and provide support, it will be great”

Planner 2: “what if there are no other players?”

Planner 1: “look you sausage, Battlefield and Modern Warfare are coming out soon, stop asking questions and ship the flipping game already”

This is the same gripe I had with Borderlands, there is a solo game there but the mechanics were designed for multiple players and you certainly feel that later on in the game. If they had stuck to their guns and added more polish it would have been great but something tells me it was rushed out before the big hitters and what could have been great feels nothing more than good.  

 

I am up to chapter 5 (Act II still I think) having had a helping hand from someone who jumped into my game on a second play through and, as Defiant Biscuit states, the game is much more manageable with someone else to help you kick zombie ass. There doesn't seem to be any difference in zombie numbers no matter how many players are involved and now I am in the City I find myself constantly kicking the bucket trying to complete quests where I am pitched against half a dozen walkers, the odd infected and a ram or suicider with only a bent machete.  Thank God any damage dealt by me is retained when I resurrect.  Current strategy is  chop, chop, die, come back to fight, chop, chop, die, come back to fight…

Loving the game but it is starting to become a grind through rather than a survival experience.

you know…im really unsure if i like this game.

its really annoying when all your quests are like

press x at point A to get quest

go to point B

press or hold X at point B

return to point A

press X

get a few quid and a rubbish weapon.

just got to the 2nd area on it like so maybe that will produce some more fun now i have a gun