ZombiU (WiiU) review

[originalbadboy]

I'm on my 7th in 2 hours. 1hr 45mins was 1 guy (the first) and then went through 6 in 15 minutes!



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Just got to the front gate of Buck Palace and doing a bit of scanning. Picked up an infected which turned out to be none other than OriginalBadBoy. Needless to say I blew his face off with my trusty pistol. Cheers for the goodies, mate!

No worries glad I could be of help ... Wish you could flag that up on MiiVerse for ultimate bragging rights ... Maybe that will be a feature of ZombiU 2 ...

That's what I though little things like that which make this game a cut above the rest ... Really good idea ... I must admit this is starting to look like GOTY of the year material ... And I really never thought I would say that, its little things like that you don't really notice till you play the game for a while...

If not GOTY (Skyrim will take some beating) its certainly sleeper hit of the year that's for sure, regardless of what the reviews say.

[teddymeow]

Just bumped into you again about 30 minutes later.

Sucks to be you.

Cheers for the landmine!!

[originalbadboy]

Just bumped into you again about 30 minutes later.

Sucks to be you.

Cheers for the landmine!!

Oh you will find a lot of my survivors dotted around ... They don't seem to last very long!

[teddymeow]

Played for 5 hours today!

Saw OBB twice and Big Edd once! It's a nice touch.

One irk is if somebody has died inside the safe house area then you can't save until you've gone and battered their faces off.

Currently running around with

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pistol, shotgun, rifle and molotovs

and I still don't feel "safe".

I still think this is a really great looking game. The fire and dirt effects are nice and the filter which washes out a lot of the colour really adds to the atmosphere.

Such a brilliant game!!

[Party boy]

GOTY contender, but found some annoying bugs, couple of times looting didn't work so I had to reset, and on the Nursery bit in the kitchen I hit an exploding guy by mistake and died, but now there's no way to retrieve the thing I need for the mission as the doors leading to it can't be unlocked from outside. So looks like I'll have to skip the mission if I can or start again from scratch having put in nearly 10 hours...

[ETC]

Jesus this is scary, I don't jump ever on survival horror but I have only played maybe 3 hours and jumping all over the place meep... Just lost my first guy @ 1hr 20 lucky just outside safe room so went and bashed his head in to get my goodies back. Enjoying it. Feels like a very old school type of game

[Family Fry]

GOTY contender, but found some annoying bugs, couple of times looting didn't work so I had to reset, and on the Nursery bit in the kitchen I hit an exploding guy by mistake and died, but now there's no way to retrieve the thing I need for the mission as the doors leading to it can't be unlocked from outside. So looks like I'll have to skip the mission if I can or start again from scratch having put in nearly 10 hours...

GOTY contender right there.

[teddymeow]

Jesus this is scary, I don't jump ever on survival horror but I have only played maybe 3 hours and jumping all over the place meep... Just lost my first guy @ 1hr 20 lucky just outside safe room so went and bashed his head in to get my goodies back. Enjoying it. Feels like a very old school type of game

I think a lot of players lost their first or <whisper> 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th players then.

Pure, blind panic grips you and its game over, man. Game over!

Sheer brilliance.

[rmoxon]

GOTY contender, but found some annoying bugs, couple of times looting didn't work so I had to reset, and on the Nursery bit in the kitchen I hit an exploding guy by mistake and died, but now there's no way to retrieve the thing I need for the mission as the doors leading to it can't be unlocked from outside. So looks like I'll have to skip the mission if I can or start again from scratch having put in nearly 10 hours...

Sorry but are you saying you have already picked up the Quest item? Becuase if you have then you will still have it after you died, when you die you don't lose quest items. If you haven't collected it yet you should be able to get back in the nursery.

[JazzFunk]

^Went to look at WiiUs the other day and I didn't realise they were quite so expensive so I cowarded out. Feel like a right fanny but whenever a new console comes out, I think of stuff like the old 360 RROD problem and always assume that later revisions will have ironed out most of the flaws (ie. like with the Jasper 360).

Is this really, really, REALLY worth buying a WiiU for, seriously? 'Cos this game sounds pretty fruity.

[rmoxon]

^Went to look at WiiUs the other day and I didn't realise they were quite so expensive so I cowarded out. Feel like a right fanny but whenever a new console comes out, I think of stuff like the old 360 RROD problem and always assume that later revisions will have ironed out most of the flaws (ie. like with the Jasper 360).

Is this really, really, REALLY worth buying a WiiU for, seriously? 'Cos this game sounds pretty fruity.

While I would never suggest spending ?340 just to play one game, the Wii U is a brilliant console and Zombi U is a brilliant game. So yes

[JazzFunk]

^I think that's the tempter, people seem to like the machine. Mmmm...it's my b'day next week, let's see if I get a bit of cash that bumps it down to nearer the ?200-?250 mark....

[teddymeow]

I just lost all my items.

Got to

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the top of the Tower of London

and just as a cut scene kicked in I was swiped by a Zombie and died. The cut scene carried on and then I'm back at the safehouse with a new character.

I hot footed it to where I died and my old character isn't there.

Weapons, health items, planks. All gone.

I. Am. Sad.

[BIG EDD]

Played for 5 hours today!

Saw OBB twice and Big Edd once! It's a nice touch.

One irk is if somebody has died inside the safe house area then you can't save until you've gone and battered their faces off.

Currently running around with

->Open Spoiler<-

pistol, shotgun, rifle and molotovs

and I still don't feel "safe".

I still think this is a really great looking game. The fire and dirt effects are nice and the filter which washes out a lot of the colour really adds to the atmosphere.

Such a brilliant game!!

you should have seen a few of mine,when I completed it th stats read 36 characters used which I wasn't surprised as I went from my first characters of two hours then suffered the deadly bite and lost about 9 lives defending the safe houseit wasn't until I mastered the timing of the swing of the bat and pushing away actions that I started to make progress.
i was gutted that I cocked up on the last run of the game and got the "C" ending which was the worst ending all because I fell off the tower wall in a panic
I'm going to start the game again as your save becomes useless as you can't access it after the game endingbut I'm fine with that as I didn't find all the CCTV systems 3 eluded me.
Anybody now how to unlock the customised cricket bat from U play??

[BIG EDD]

I just lost all my items.

Got to

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the top of the Tower of London

and just as a cut scene kicked in I was swiped by a Zombie and died. The cut scene carried on and then I'm back at the safehouse with a new character.

I hot footed it to where I died and my old character isn't there.

Weapons, health items, planks. All gone.

I. Am. Sad.

I don't think there's been a game like this that really saddens you when you loose all your equipment,it really does knock the stuffing out of your gameplay but that's all part of the fun