Needs more...
The story has been done and done to death. The same can be said of the play style. I really wish I could vote higher, but there is really nothing in this game that stands out to me.
3 for effort.
Reviews for "Zombies - Surrounded"
MichaelJ responds:
Effort -.-
That's it?
Nice voice acting, good animations, but...it's just way too short!
Apart from the animation, just terrible.
A) It was short, just wanted to get that outta the way.
B) Why is it that it takes days for the virus to take effect for the man upstairs but only took a few seconds for the girl to fully reanimate?
C) Not enough interaction, I spent the entire time looking for one key, a set of batteries, and two parts of an axe.
D) Facial artwork was mediocre.
E) I found it irritating to have certain items that were present that were useless such as the rat-eaten book, the stuck drawer, the pile of garbage, and the empty buckets, and on top of that telling me specifically why the character can't pick it up like some kind of Hypochondriac afraid of the cooties. It just makes him sound like a sissy.
F) There were only two reaction events, if you're going to throw some of those in at the very least go all the way with it and make a few more if you're going to make a suspenseful thriller.
G) The whole "I found the journal of some dead guy" is very played out, and is at this point kinda cliche, try to find more ways of showing that a survivor was there and had a message. No one wants to read 18 pages worth of information about what the guy had for breakfast to "Oh no it turns out I'm infected, better go hug my kids and shoot myself", they want to get back to the game not sit and read, if they wanted to that they could just play Exmortis (which, in my opinion did a GREAT job with their journal entries if the player had enough patience to read through them). L4D2 (and 1) showed it by writing messages in the safe-rooms, maybe you can show it by having messages written in blood on the walls or spray paint writing "Alive Inside", give us some atmosphere!
H) I don't want this message to be all negative so I'll leave with a positive comment: I thought the animation of the people running took a lot of time and effort and for that I applaud you on your hard work.
This is without a doubt the longest review I have ever written on Newgrounds so please, before you click on the USELESS button read through this and hear me out. And to the Author I hope you put this information to good use because I'm actually trying to be HELPFUL here and give you ideas.
MichaelJ responds:
A) I know It's short, but it seems like even if it was long you would have a problem with it.
B) The man upstairs wasn't bitten...
C) Not enough interaction? You had to press space multiple times and shoot zombies...
D) I know I'm not great at faces...
E) You aren't going to go somewhere and NOT find items you won't need. That wouldn't make sense. That's like saying you use every item in your house every day...
F) Like previously stated, the game is short, and animating these reaction events is time consuming.
G) The journal is 3 pages long, not 18.
H) This was the hardest part -.-
All in all, you gave me no helpful ideas, all you did was bash my game that I worked hard on and gave me a 3/10 for my work. You have NO IDEA how hard it is to make these games, especially because I did 95% of it myself, having to miss out on study time, and even sleep. I see you have no flash submissions, that speaks for itself. Also, seeing how you gave a stick figure animation and madness animation a 10 in your reviews, you are totally one-sided. I am guessing you don't like point and click games at all.
That ending sucked.
Boring
This has been way over done. On top of that, the game is short and uneventful. Basically I'm supposed to look for some random objects, put stuff together, blah blah blah. How many times have I played this kind of game already? The whole "zombie" theme is an afterthought. The only purpose anything "zombie" or "haunted" related serves is to add some flavor to your very vanilla game. And really, zombies? You're just on a roll with the regurgitated ideas. Not a fan of the animation or drawings either, keep at it though.
This game is boring and uninspired. I actually already wrote a review for this game, but you had it deleted. It seems that every time someone writes something you don't agree with, you write a nasty response. It's quite sad that newgrounds is filled with people like you who upload games and then attack anyone who doesn't give it 10/10. Get over yourself, writing childish responses and acting entitled isn't going to make your game any better, or change anyone's mind.
MichaelJ responds:
I don't think you understand what the review system is for.