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[Review] The War Z: A Painfully Executed Parody of a Survival Game
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1 point for the controls working lol
People talk all the time about hor crappy a game like GW2, WoW, Tera, Age of Wushu, or FFXIV is but those are just people dissapointed or not liking certain aspects of those games. The thing is those other games are actually good in their own rights even if you do not believe the game is for.
Now WarZ is in a class in and of itself, it truely is the most horrible game in all existence I wish people who knock any other game including those games coming soon that are popular on this sight would actually play a game that sucked rather then bash a game they dont agree with.
Sandbox means open world, non-linear gaming PERIOD!
Subscription Gaming, especially MMO gaming is a Cash grab bigger then the most P2W cash shop!
Bring Back Exploration and lengthy progression times. RPG's have always been about the Journey not the destination!!!
I like bit buts and I cannot lie, but yours was looking rather spurious.
am i the only one who thought warZ had shutdown??? not that i was hoping or anything for hammerpoint to dry up.... but the game just screams garbage. given the claims of lengthy development the graphics do not mesh well with that at all. it litterally screams cash grab
which is sad for the simple fact there really arent that many fps zombie shooter survival games or atleast decent ones to play.
that being said.. i wouldnt touch dayz either least until its a standalone. as i dont see any point in buying a game just for A mod. you are wasting money if you dont want to play arma as well. be like buying WoW just to play warcraft... totally pointless if you didnt want to play both
besides dayz is also plagued by cheats as well.. like every fps on the planet, i think warz gets a badrap on that do to the smaller map sizes comparied to say BF or cod where you have better options to avoid people.
that being said.. 1.7 is fking funny as hell havent seen points like that since some of the earlier game debackles of betas that just vanished. sad that the game is so bad.. but honestly i played warinc any LP of warz just shows the same exact problems warinc has
so never turned my crank to play warz
I thought they were aiming for pre-release cash and running for the hills. Awful company, pure scam, goodbye.
I got the game and did actually have some fun for a little while but then they never fixed anything. The game did have some potential but they seemed to make every wrong move that they possibly could.
Obvious the biggest mistake was the whole steam thing, however I think for a zombie game they really needed to do a better job with the zombies. The biggest problem was that the zombies where not a threat at all, there should have been herds of them walking around. As well you can tell they did not put that much effort into them because when I shoot a zombie in the head with a shotgun their head should explode or if you shoot their leg they should crawl at you and even older zombie games have this.
Before the steam release the game was growing and had many packed servers, then it all went downhill afterwards.
I never thought I would undelete my mmorpg.com account but this thread just made me do so. To be clear, I’m not a big fan of this website. Heck, the piss-poor moderation was my reason for leaving in the first place. I still log in to read the articles/reviews and look in on the MO forum (always a great source of entertainment.)
With that preamble out of the way, I just amused by the fans of TWZ and their reaction to this review. From what I’ve read, the general consensus on every gaming site I have visited is: 1) poorly implemented game. 2) Horrible developer 3) not worth the time effort. Than being said, you are free to like the game. Tastes and preferences are wholly subjective. But the thing is, most of you venting your outrage on here agree that game probably deserves the low score or some score just marginally higher. You seem to be upset because other games on this site who you think are worse (or just as bad) have received a higher score. Some of you go as far as to suggest this site’s reviews are biased towards games who advertise on the site…
Here is the thing: Always a poor defense of your game if the only thing you can come up with is other bad games get better reviews (means your game is still bad). As for the bias thing… I never saw it myself. Yes, there have been some games that have gotten higher scores that I (note the “I”) thought they deserved but since the style of those games didn’t really appeal to me in the first place, I realize I’m not the most unbiased source to accurately rate the game. Also remember, reviews are subjective. Different people see things in a different way. A feature someone may rate negatively may be regarded as positive (or at least neutrally). Also, reviews on this site are penned by different people. Consistency will always be an issue when you have different people performing each review of a game. Personal biases and experiences play into how one views a product. Lastly, I just don’t understand why fans get so bent out of shape about a negative review. I mean, all a review says is that in the reviewers expert (or not so expert) opinion, the game is lacking and he would not recommended. Does this alter your reality and enjoyment of the game? No. So again, why do you care? – (and don’t give me the bs reason of “It will keep people from trying the game” or “it will make people quit”. Cause if there are gamers who are so easily influenced by the review on one little site that less than 1% of potential costumers actually visit, take it from me, you wouldn’t want them in your game in the first place…)
Look, Bill has always maintained that the people responsible for the content of the site are completely independent from the people selling the ad space. From what I have witnessed on mmorpg.com (going back to 2006), I have never had a reason to question the veracity of his claim.
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I agree with this review
Bad Development should be punished harshly
"It has potential"
-Second most used phrase on existence
"It sucks"
-Most used phrase on existence
And bad business practices should be punished even more harshly. Borderline fraud.
Thank you, and Pann, for similar words. And welcome back.
I want to add: I make a point to tell all reviewers of games here to disregard other games' scores when rating their assigned title, even if they were the one to review said titles. Our goal isn't to rate every game in relation to other reviews we've done in the past. Time changes what's accepted, what's good, and what's bad. And every single game is (cheesy line coming) a special snowflake. Each one should be reviewed on its own merits.
That DOES NOT MEAN our writers can't compare one game to another for the sake of reference points, and in this case the connection between Day Z and War Z is obvious. It makes sense in this case to compare the two games as one is obviously riding the cottails of the other. That doesn't mean War Z couldn't have been a good game. And in fact, the laundry list of items that they claim will be added to the game will likely make it a much more passable product. If the Foundation release of TWZ was closer to the game it described in press releases and bullet lists of dream features, we'd be singing a different tune right now.
But right now, as it is, in its Foundation release? I'd say Blake is pretty close to spot on. I'd probably have wound up with a 3 or a 4 when you averaged my scores. But that would be my opinion, not Blake's.
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I completely agree with this article.
Now if only MMORPG would write the same review for PoE for being just as bad a knockoff based on Diablo as WarZ is to DayZ.
If this game had a big add in the background, the score would have been like 6.5.
This piece of crap gets way more attention than deserved. Meanwhile, other games that deserve recognition and attention go unmentioned. It's a shame, but at least the review and some commentary on what went wrong is insightful and maybe necessary if these mistakes are to be prevented in the future.
Outta interest, you gotta have a benchmark surely? So you cannot just discard previous releases. But I get the irritation with the endless accusations of advertising preference.
It's a worse game now than it was two months ago, you sure you are playing the same game?
ZOMG, it's Pann!
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Should be 1.0 score.
Havent played game 4 month. tryed yesterday, runned 50 meter in forest, see town, bambam, 2 headshot from hacker, logout,unistall.
I would agree with the people bashing the review if this was the only place it happend... But no... i have yet to find ANYONE who has anything good to say about the game. The best i have found is that it is not as bad as people make it out to be.
And having played WARInc i have no problem taking the reviews and previes seriously.
This have been a good conversation
That is just pure bashing, it's sad in my point of view.
I see it this way, everyone is bashing the game so you make this "review" just so everyone can agree on and join the bashing? The game isn't that bad. They made mistakes and they paid for it.
This is internet bullying, nothing else.
PS: I love the "Pros:" Is this review for real? I don't even play the game before someone calls me FANBOI. It just seems like a sick joke.
PSSSSTTT.. Dayz doesnt charge money for the mod. WarZ is charging people for shit in a box.