Found interesting in start then later onwards really annoying,difficult & boring!!
The story is really predictable and forecasted at the beginning,meet some survivors,help them you then get your pass to move on to the next level(my question is if they had it then why didn't they did it themselves,why wait for the player and stay stuck???) and on the way there is someone who will try to take advantage of you or betray you then he will be your biggest enemy then in the end you need to defeat it to survive the entire disaster....dough!!!...please come up with something nice and innovative, gamers look for something unique.It looks like they just made the story up just to give the game good length and playtime otherwise its hopeless.
The level designing is pretty neat and good,no complains about it.The various worlds seems pleasant and this is the only reason that insisted me to play the entire game till the end.
The enemies, the story in each level and the gameplay patterns are repetitive which really annoys a lot. Meet a person,go for his quest,kill zombies and return with the item,finish the quest and move on. The soundtrack at some levels sounds like the one resident evil movie and the sound effects are not that thrilling and at some places there are no zombies at all but still I can hear their noises as if they are standing next to me. The game is not scary at all.
Let me get into the gameplay first, when you take on quests their difficulty is set accordingly; there is not really an overall difficulty in the game so it takes really a lot of pain and deaths to complete certain levels so need to prepare a lot and this is totally senseless as the zombies are really bad programmed AI and really hard creatures to destroy. Also I don't get a point, you need to destroy the zombie's head to kill it permanently;in this game you have to hit few blows and the zombie dies which is totally opposite to the real zombie killing concept from other games.Also I feel the character's upgrade is not properly synched with the gameplay.Annoying things, zombies respawn fast, zombies level up with you, money to repair items when there's no person doing the repairs - might just be me but I found that stupid, fetching everything from a teddy bear to a number of bottles/food, small variation of zombies, turn back your leaving the playing zone...I could go on and on and still it won't be over.
Overall in the game same material in all aspects presented with different design.
Doing side quests in the islands gets you some important items but totally hopeless since the entire place is infected how the hell that stupid quest giver can survive even if I manage to complete his/her quest as in the end nobody is gonna last they gonna nuke the place..hahahahahahahaha.......
Items are scattered everywhere but when there are zombies around then will you kill a mob of zombies entirely then collect them or collect some then run or run away completely??Any item can be anywhere no specific guess and you can carry only as per your capacity,it's OK for the items to be scattered on a panicked island but seriously annoying stuff.
Weapons are worst aspect specially melee,I can play counterstrike melee combats better than this,the weapons just degrade after a few shots to the zombies and need to be repaired again or they get destroyed so you need to get one.The mods are quite good and add an extra punch but those weapons also need to be repaired and updated regularly(for better impact)otherwise they will get destroyed.
Guns and guns ammo is rare and you get it only in later part of the game but seriously a zombie infected island with a resort,jungle,village,lab,city,police station and a prison with less guns???I think they should have focused on both melee weapons as well as the firearms so the game would be more interesting as the player would have a choice. Guns also follow the same behavior as melee weapons,needed to be repaired and upgraded.
It is really buggy also and has some performance issues(radar,map,friendly AI and all).
If you have 3 more friends then play it in coop then it will be somewhat interesting and funny.
The game is worth less than the half of the price,I think the game company has panicked and made a quiet early release of it,they must have tested it,properly put all the pieces together, made some improvements and collected some reviews on it's BETA release[they should have released those] and should have come up with a masterpiece.I don't know hoe Gamespot gave it a 7(were they paid like few?)
For me its not worth the money I spent to buy it,wait for its price to drop or play at your own will[NOT recommend at all if you are a good survival horror game fan], this game in nowhere near the standards.