Esse jogo foi responsável por um dos momentos mais marcantes ao lado do meu Brother.

Estávamos cercados por zumbis e não vimos escapatória além de se esconder dentro de um container aberto preso a uma carreta, ambos já estavam infectados e não havia mais nada que pudesse ser feito, não tínhamos recursos ou sequer ajuda, apenas um ao outro. Desesperados com a inevitabilidade de nos transformamos em mortos vivos aquela altura decidimos fazer um pacto, cada um ainda tinha um Handgun com uma bala no cano e era a única saída, não restava mais nada pelo que lutar, e mesmo se tivesse não havia mais força, ela tinha ido embora e dado lugar ao medo, que nos dominava mas também nos unia, lendo isso pode parecer que fomos covardes e deveríamos ter caído com honra, lutando até o fim contra aqueles malditos cadáveres ambulantes, no entanto, a única coisa que tinha impulsionado nosso desejo por sobreviver até então era a companhia um do outro, então pq não encerrarmos nossa jornada juntos assim como começamos. A ultima coisa que vimos foi o outro colocar a arma na cabeça e a ultima coisa que ouvimos foi o som do disparo.

>locked my friends outside to buy time
>try looking for way out
>entire building is surrounded and about to be overrun by zombies
>blow my own brains out before the bastards get to me
kino.

A noble attempt at bringing realistic gameplay to online co-op zombie games that works partially. It might be too hard given there isn't a proper tutorial and instead there's an official guide linked in the main menu, which is literally a player manual in the form of a Steam guide, but still, it's hard as hell. Once you get a grip on the mechanics and how the game works it becomes less difficult, although it never becomes easy. The combat doesn't have enough feedback which is a big drawback for newcomers, there's barely a feeling of "punch" when you shoot or push a zombie and sometimes you'll think you've hitted a zombie when you haven't.

A problem it has is that the online servers are mostly modified, meaning that if you want to play the OG experience you must either search for official un-modified servers, which all of them are set in the US so the ping is way high, or make your own server, which I won't get into details but it's nearly impossible to get it working by yourself. If you couldn't, you will spend most of the time playing workshop maps with gameplay changes. And that wouldn't matter to me at all if the excellent atmosphere wasn't ruined by addons and mediocre workshop maps. Tho this is mostly a "Source-based online games" problem, because CS:S worked the same way, which is also kind of lame, but sadly there's not much I can do about it.

I hope the sequel improves upon all the problems this game has, because it has good ideas, one of them being that you really feel the slow gameplay with the characters and the combat, but the execution is half-way there, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.