shadyJ
11-11-2013, 06:08 AM
So I gave this game a try, No More Room In Hell (http://store.steampowered.com/app/224260/?snr=1_7_15__13). I got sucked into it so hard that even though I just installed it on Thursday, I ended up dumping 20 hrs into it over the weekend. Yes, it is another zombie game, but it is really fun and very challenging as well.
It's not like Left 4 Dead or Killing Floor or Dead Island, it's more of a realistic horror game than an all out action game. Its a multiplayer game, I guess you could play it solo but it would be impossible to win. There are guns, but ammo is scarce, so you have to mostly do melee combat. Melee combat is risky as well because sometimes the zombies can grab you and bite you. If you get bit, there is something like a 50/50 chance you will start to turn into a zombie yourself. The best thing to do is just stay away from zombies on escape maps. There are maps where you have to hold out against waves of zombies, so you do have to kill them, but those maps are a lot harder than escape maps.
There are a lot of dark areas where it is hard to see, so more of an emphasis on horror. The zombies shamble pretty quietly, they don't move fast (well some do) but they are relatively silent, so you really have to keep an eye open. These zombies are straight out of Night Of The Living Dead. The game actually feels like a homage to the original NOTLD more than anything else. In fact there is a map where you are in a house just like the one in NOTLD, the map is called 'Isolated, and in it you have to survive wave after wave, it gets so hard that you have to decide where to hold out, the basement or the second floor. By the way there is a safe with a pistol and ammo in it on the second floor. The combination of the safe is the year in which the movie which inspired that map was made in.
The graphics are pretty good, NMRIH is using the Source engine, so everything looks nice and runs smoothly. What's really nice is the game is FREE. At first I thought it was a mod for Half Life 2, but it is a free stand alone game. There are no advertisements and no items to buy, this is a project the developers do in their spare time, and Valve let them use the source engine for it (seriously I love Valve).
The player population is very healthy right now, in fact most servers were full. You can play each map with up to 8 other people. Without some teamwork you will lose quickly though, so if you want to last more than 5 minutes you need to coordinate strategies with your team. If you treat this like an action game, you will run out of ammo, get bit, and die fast, but if you treat it like a horror game, you can last.
Anyway, give this game a try, after all it will cost you nothing but a bit of time at the worst, and you might just find it a whole lot of fun!
It's not like Left 4 Dead or Killing Floor or Dead Island, it's more of a realistic horror game than an all out action game. Its a multiplayer game, I guess you could play it solo but it would be impossible to win. There are guns, but ammo is scarce, so you have to mostly do melee combat. Melee combat is risky as well because sometimes the zombies can grab you and bite you. If you get bit, there is something like a 50/50 chance you will start to turn into a zombie yourself. The best thing to do is just stay away from zombies on escape maps. There are maps where you have to hold out against waves of zombies, so you do have to kill them, but those maps are a lot harder than escape maps.
There are a lot of dark areas where it is hard to see, so more of an emphasis on horror. The zombies shamble pretty quietly, they don't move fast (well some do) but they are relatively silent, so you really have to keep an eye open. These zombies are straight out of Night Of The Living Dead. The game actually feels like a homage to the original NOTLD more than anything else. In fact there is a map where you are in a house just like the one in NOTLD, the map is called 'Isolated, and in it you have to survive wave after wave, it gets so hard that you have to decide where to hold out, the basement or the second floor. By the way there is a safe with a pistol and ammo in it on the second floor. The combination of the safe is the year in which the movie which inspired that map was made in.
The graphics are pretty good, NMRIH is using the Source engine, so everything looks nice and runs smoothly. What's really nice is the game is FREE. At first I thought it was a mod for Half Life 2, but it is a free stand alone game. There are no advertisements and no items to buy, this is a project the developers do in their spare time, and Valve let them use the source engine for it (seriously I love Valve).
The player population is very healthy right now, in fact most servers were full. You can play each map with up to 8 other people. Without some teamwork you will lose quickly though, so if you want to last more than 5 minutes you need to coordinate strategies with your team. If you treat this like an action game, you will run out of ammo, get bit, and die fast, but if you treat it like a horror game, you can last.
Anyway, give this game a try, after all it will cost you nothing but a bit of time at the worst, and you might just find it a whole lot of fun!