Yeah, seems to be an absolute must-buy!

Well, there's one lesson I learned from this game: never pre-order..

Yes, I did.. so much rage now :D

"The War Z is the gaming equivalent of a knock-off Spider-Man toy from Japan in a box that says “Batman” on it and has a picture of the Power Rangers."

Wow. That was some really impressive vitriol.  I applaud you, sir.

Originally posted by TsaboHavoc
this game looks really bad, but i would like to add that is easy to trash indie games in reviews, the questions is.. who is the jornalist with the stones to review a bad mainstream game with this eye ?

So you're asking "who's willing to give up a paycheck in exchange attaboys from forumites?"

I would assume nobody. Call it a hunch.

Originally posted by pupurun

i totally agree on a low review..But it's too low compared to other many low reviews on equally bad games...Doen'st seem legit imo...Perhaps WarZ wasnt advertised through MMORPG and this causde some kind of prejudice? Just my question here..might be wrong...But i personally won't be suprised if i soon see a full scale advertising storm from DayZ on this website...

After the STEAM incident i totally agree that this game developer should be ''punished'' .I would even agree for a NOT TO REVIEW clause by any gaming website...But giving such a low point review shows an intention to ''kill'' more than a objective review...

And i repeat....Most of the bad-games on this website have an average of 6-7.And i talk about really bad games..You can't go from 6-7 to 1....Unless MMORPG will finally start and giving TRUE reviews...In that case then i agree on the 1,7...Now lets see some ''eights and nines" go at 6 and 7....

Ill admit to this:

was a big fan of this game (and Day Z) when it was released-heck i even still have my sub, but once i started playing TSW- i was like HOLY cow!!!!!-this is where its at!!!!

this is what  these zombies mmos are trying to emulate (with fps) of course... but havent looked back since !!!-LOL

War Z has alot togo in development to achieve anything as close to TSW -Kingsmouth Zone.

Originally posted by Icewhite

Originally posted by TsaboHavoc
this game looks really bad, but i would like to add that is easy to trash indie games in reviews, the questions is.. who is the jornalist with the stones to review a bad mainstream game with this eye ?

So you're asking "who's willing to give up a paycheck in exchange attaboys from forumites?"

I would assume nobody. Call it a hunch.

u always says what i want to hear

I think the review suits the game perfectly.

Have any of the recent triple A games been as bad as WarZ? NO, not even close that's why other bad games don't get such low scores. Most games don't release to just take advantage of their users in any way possible, the devs don't call people faggots in public and most games will employ someone in PR.

These reviews are so biased omg I don't even know where to start. Way too many Day Z fanboys around it seems.

Anyways let's see how wrong you are:

Getting shot in the head is something you’ll do a lot in The War Z. The servers are still plagued with hackers and players tend to shoot first and ask questions later as well.



Hackers? I've been playing since beta launch and I've only found 2 hackers. Let me guess you are the sniper guy and cries that gets killed 300m away from soneone with M4 or w/e that has a nice scope on it and then you think it's a hacker? lol

Guess you died too much because you don't have what it takes to survive.





Random crashes, long load times, lots of clipping in the outdoors environments and hackers that have modded the game to their whims are just some of the issues The War Z presents you with. The simple act of clicking from the leaderboards to clan menus takes longer than it should.

What random crashes? long load times really? takes a few seconds to load the game. Unless you want instant load like Diablo 3 then you have the game load the files while playing making you get fps spikes.



Clan menu loading was bugged now it's been fixed for a few weeks now.



Audio I agree, there's alot of audio bugs.





Social 2/10



Guess you haven't tried to join a clan or those social private servers.





Unfortunately melee weapons are practically useless in game and their hit rates against the undead seem random or mediocre at best. In fact, there does not appear to be any actual stats for weaponry or protective gear at all.



So clueless about the game I don't even know what to say... it's not random and protective/weapon do have stats they have been tested before aswell get some clue about what you are reviewing.



Since you have to forage for guns, more often than not you’ll find yourself mowed down before you even get a chance to really start playing. And the best part? You lose all your stuff when you die.

See this is so biased, you are basically saying you don't like the genre of this game, don't ever review just because you don't like how a game is played. It's also a pure lie you can get geared pretty easly while being careful, let me guess you are the guy running in the middle of the road then cries he died? If you didn't lose gear it would lose the purpose of the survival aspect of the game.

If you’re going to give your money to a zombie-survival game, grab ArmA II and a copy of the DayZ mod, or wait for the full retail version of DayZ to arrive on digital store shelves and check that out. Do not buy into The War Z.

NOT biased at all towards the other game...

Game deserves around 5 or 6 but not 1 lol for the price it costs 15 bucks?

 

I rarely post on game site forums, but felt strongly enough about some of the accusations here that I had to poke my head up out of the foxhole and say something. 

I always say that MMORPG and I grew up together. Craig was just starting the site when I began my career at CCP as the community manager for EVE. I have enjoyed a long, wonderful professional relationship with the site and staff. All of that said, I feel I am quite qualified to say I have first-hand knowledge about how you CANNOT buy favorable reviews or coverage. There's friendship and there's business. While I consider some of the staff to be friends, I don't mix the two and neither do they. I could always trust them to give fair, candid coverage. It wasn't always sunshine and roses, and they didn't sugarcoat anything, which made me respect them all the more. 

I'm not saying that there aren't plenty of sites and publications that can be bought.  It always made me feel dirty working those devil's deals, and it's one of the primary reasons I got away from doing PR to focus squarely on community again. I was always proud of MMORPG for not compromising their morals and professionalism no matter how much money was on the table. And believe me, there are companies who will pay out the nose to get favorable coverage they don't deserve. 

Originally posted by Grakulen
I think he scored it a little high on value. Even at free you are getting ripped off.

We really need a like function here, just for this one post oO!

Horribly biased review.

War Z is a POS, but only marginally worse than Day Z.  Most of the problems War Z has are also found in Day Z.

And at least War Z doesn't have the horribly laggy hit detection and completely harmless zombies of Day Z.  Shot a guy in the head?  Well enjoy waiting 2 seconds to actually see the bullet impact.  Being chased by 100 zombies?  Just zig zag and jump over an obstacle.

Let's face it.  Both War Z and Day Z are complete crap, but people have some sort of special attachment to Day Z that makes them think it is superior "just because".

We can hope that the Day Z standalone is good, but as of now NEITHER of these are worth playing.

The game has long load times.

-Load server lists takes minutes, want to filter out password servers? extra few minutes again.

- Want to open a tab like inventory or clan or something else? extra minutes loading.

Audio:

- The game has the worst audio of all times.

- Random and extremely weird sounds trying to pass as ambient spooky sounds make me cry every time they come.

Melee:

- It is bugged. hitting animations are shit for zombies. One moment they are suffering the hit and can still hit you.

- hitting sounds suck so bad too.

Social:

you are trying too hard man. joining a clan is the same everywhere and as a reviewer he should not join a private server to look for the games social aspects.

Hackers:

The game is full of no clipper, espers, aim botters, and more. Just because you dont see them doesnt mean they dont exist. Go watch some artemisknives streaming at twitch so you can see all the cheaters.

And there are random crashes too.

This is a very fair and real review of the state of the game. Pre Alpha indeed. Even Firefall when it was in Alpha was better. Hell even minecraft alpha was better.

I think the op Review was dead on.  So I got to give him kodos for that.  To be honest I felt the score was a little hight but still it hit the spot dead on. 

All I can say is wow, good job. 

Nice Review +10 for that.

And these F**** do not give a refund :(

60 Bucks down the river......