Son Of General Retro Discussion

You know the way in most zombie games, zombies are basically just cannon fodder with a zombie skin? Terribly boring and repetative?

Well in this, someone has FINALLY gotten the zombie thing right. It would remind you of Night of the Living Dead - done properly. It's more about survival itself than the zombies. You've very little (if any) ammo at all. You need to eat. You need to drink.

The other players are on edge all the time trying to scavange for supplies and food.

You literally have these mexican stand offs every time you meet someone else, frantically typing 'are you friendly!?!' over the comms line. Sometimes blasting them full of holes because you're just so high strung and on edge - only to find out they were friendly and would have helped.

Yeah, been a long time since I've felt like raving about a multiplayer game! This has just blown me away though.

waveform wrote: »

How do the system requirements compare to Battlefield 3?

If they're round the same I'm sorted!

I wouldn't say it's any more than BF 3? Visually it's nowhere near something like Crysis.

I'm running it on a laptop with an i5 and 6GB of ram with an nvidia GeForce GT540 and it runs grand.

DinoRex wrote: »

Purchased and downloading now.

Good man!

Controls are a bit fiddly in the beginning if you've never played Arma. I hadn't myself, but after a few hours it starts to make sense.

That's the one! ITV thought it was real footage of the IRA taking down a Brittish helicopter in the north. Muppets!

The controls aren't overly complex - they do make sense.

The thing I found hardest to figure out was how the backpack works.

Every time you come across an item in the field its like its own chest. You know when you move one thing from one chest to another. Like in Fallout. Once you realize that it's not too bad.

Couple of other things to note - everything works through the mouse scrollwheel. Took me ages to figure that out. Want to open a door? Scroll on the wheel and the option will be there. Want to pick up that flare you threw? Scroll wheel again.

There are some interesting things like for example, you dont have energy, but you have blood. The blood starts at 12000. If you get really badly attacked, you'll need to bandage it up or it'll keep bleeding and that blood number goes down. (0 being death obviously)

But if you want more blood to bring it back up to 12000, someone has to give you a transfusion via a blood pack you find. You cant give yourself a blood transfusion.

If you suffer trauma you also may start shaking. In that case you need to take pain killers. You also have morphines and things like that.

That's one major downside, it's a feckin 15GB download! I just had to leave it download the other night and go to bed.