I found that game to be quite a step down from the first game. The difficulty has been ramped way up. Now, a bit more difficulty isnt a bad thing, but this is ridiculous. The nights are about 3 times longer,more zombies show up more frequently, and the barricade "health" has been lowered by half. The game suffers from some lag issues, but here is the weird thing: when I am facing lag, the zombies move at the speed they normally do, but the character you control moves slower. So, my character lags but not the zombies. This leads to some very long reload times that can sometimes end up in my barricade taking lots of damage.
Giving survivors weapons sounds neat on paper, but they don't do jack shit with them. That leads me to another thing: dissapointing survivor AI. It hasn't been improved at all since the last game. I mean, I know the creator probably dosen't want super smart survivors that do all the work for you, but when you hand a survivor a gun, they fire it about once per 30 seconds. I also found the "equipment" to be quite useless. Since you can only place them in certain spots that most zombies walk around, they aren't that effective.
And finally, the new searching system is dissapointing. In the old game it was fun just the way it was:survive one day, look for weapons, survivors, or build the barricade, then survive another day till you won. In this one, it all depends on how lucky you are. You could use all of your points, get lucky, and get some supplies to move on to the next level...Or, you could use them all, find nothing important, and have to survive another round.
Oh, and even though it dosen't matter that much and I forgot to read them quite often, I miss the little diary notes that now only seem to pop up when you advance to a new city, and aren't near as interesting as the old ones(all he talks about in the new ones is getting to Union City). I rate this game a 5/10, because it is kinda fun, but needs a lot of improvements.
tl;dr version
I don't like this game.