Nice shooter that can easily ruin your current progress with lack of balance between enemies and ammo.
The game has a linear quest structure with a simple plot. Missions are picked from your primary base, which also serves as a shop. You can buy ammo, health packs, better armor and weapons, and even base improvements that let you to craft items from materials obtained on missions.
Weapons are categorized as small machine guns, assault rifles, and special weapons. While rifles have six possibilities, the other two categories each have three. Weapons matter because they have various stats, such as damage and reload time, as well as a secondary shooting mode. These modes are not unique because some weapons share them, however some of the choices include focus, which enhances bullet damage, and speed up, which makes you move faster. Of course, you will have to pay cash for new weapons.
Your soldier is controlled from the top down perspective. Instead of using a mouse to move him around, you can control him directly with the four movement buttons. Aside from sprinting, which is not a problem despite the stamina bar, there is a crouch button that serves no purpose.
Camera is locked and can’t be rotated or zoomed out, so you only see a few meters around you. One fun feature happens with buildings; when opening a door, you only see what the character sees. This means corners will be covered in darkness until you turn towards it.
Firing and aiming is done with a mouse. Guns use ammunition so you can not waste it by holding down the fire button. Because bullets sometimes miss, you must wait until the target receives a red outline, indicating a direct hit. There is a melee attack available that can take out more zombies at once, but it’s risky to use because it uses a lot of stamina and you need to get close.
A standard zombie takes about three rounds to kill, but shielded and larger monsters require many more. Enemies do not give you anything, yet you can not avoid them because stages are usually linear, and enemies pursue you when they see you. Due to the limited ammo, it is critical to use focus ability. You must stand motionless to use it, but it allows you to one-shot standard zombies and take down shielded soldiers with two bullets.
Missions are selected from a map divided into three sections. Each mission will display the difficulty, a brief explanation of the situation, the reward for completing it, and the mission's map with indicated goals. The map is also available throughout the mission, so you are never lost.
The bad news is that missions can only be played once. This is a problem because of boxes and crates containing important loot. Because your inventory is limited and mostly filled with ammo and health packs, you only have a few spaces available for additional stuff. That is why you should buy a backpack as soon as possible. Although you can utilize material to craft ammo or health, it is far more profitable to sell it and buy what you need.
Sadly, it’s very easy to ruin your entire game because there are simply not enough bullets found out in the field. Furthermore, different weapons use different bullets. Loot never contains what you need the most, so you need to buy bullets before going on a mission. But, if you spend all the money on the new weapon, you’ll be stuck with using only melee attacks that gets you killed after a few zombies. Old weapons can’t be sold.
Death is not a big deal because you respawn at the start of the map and killed zombies stay dead, but the repetitive loop of killing two or three zombies and respawning is not fun. Although you can leave or quit a mission, this is a pointless action because enemies respawn and you don’t get any rewards.
The last major negative point is that you’re stuck with your current game. If you completely mess up your progress by wasting money and having no bullets, there’s no way of deleting or starting a new run.
