Whilst I can say that I'm glad another team is taking a crack at making a cod zombies like game (even if their main inspiration is cold war zombies and not the original zombies) I have to sadly be pretty harsh on this.

First off, this game runs like shit. It has awful optimisation and even on performance mode with uncapped frames it barely runs at 30 fps. The "zombies" (more like occultists) function more like killing floor enemies than their cod contemporaries which causes a clash in gameplay between mechanics being similar to cold war but the zombies not being able to be properly utilised. IE Trains. The easter eggs also reduce to some pretty bland steps that reduce to the worst of what cod zombies had while also having quite confusing and visually weird map designs. The perks are also extremely boring compared to their more visually interesting and easy to read counterparts the perks in this game reduce to a small syringe in the wall that gives you a bad RPG-like buff that's something like 5% movement speed. I hope this game irons out some of its more displeasing aspects but I just sadly cannot say you should play this. Shoutout to having a demo that allows people to freely play one of the maps as much as they want.

I'm not done the game yet or anything, but I've done the main quest and a bunch of side quests, so I felt like writing up about it.

As much as I decently enjoyed dragons dogma 1 it was definitely an extremely annoying game with jank overload and just the most egregious traveling ever even though I was playing dark arisen I didn't even know the eternal ferrystone was a thing so most of it I was just playing normally. It has fine combat, but you get pretty busted pretty quick, and the game felt like it ended multiple times just to keep going.

This game very much ends a bit abruptly. Despite that, though, I enjoyed it a bit more being a more straightforward boss rather than a script fest. Dragons Dogma 2 has some great gameplay with a great sense of exploration. I know that people will dog on the enemy variety and how often you'll find hobgoblins, harpies, or bandits, yet I find the enemy variety to be quite good since they offer different changes to your playstyle. (I'm especially glad there's no evil eye) I hope this game reaches the group that finds games nowadays to be boring or the people who think devs don't make more bold games anymore.

Overall, I think this game shouldn't exist in a good way. I'm glad we got it even with its performance issues and use of microtransactions (which are extremely tame for microtransactions and the first game already used). I think it's worth playing, and there's a lot of secret substories you probably wouldn't know about and secret bosses you wouldn't find just doing the main story. Like the first game, there's way more to it than just killing the dragon. I recommend it.