Reviews for Road of the Dead 2

[Tomsan]

oef I kinda peed my pants a little when I saw this was out. I so much loved the old game. I am writing this review a bit prematurely I guess, since I am still playing, but I wanted to try a constructive review.

Its noticeable that a lot of thought has gone into this new version. its definitely very different, but also has the same atmosphere as the old game. As always the sounds are awesome

You have decided to incorporate the upgrade screen of the first game into the game itself. I cannot speak for everyone of course, but I personally dont like this concept. at least not in its current form. I have great difficulty in obtaining upgrades and often fail to hold of the zombies. Its also quite difficult to stop in time for a certain station or church.

RP are pretty rare to get in the beginning, some upgrades are expensive and take ages to complete. I tried upgrading this skill, but you give so many upgrade options, its difficult to figure out for what you should save RP. Also RP earned is just as easily lost. I had difficulty in deciding if I should make the stage to earn RP or stop to upgrade, since later stages get more difficult fast I was in a predicament constantly.

Why I also miss the old upgrade screen is the resting moments. This game actually goes on non-stop and this stresses me out a bit. prior you could enjoy the upgrade screen and rest a while.

Zombies are really hard to kill, and cost a lot of ammo, ammo replenishment is difficult.

I did not try changing drivers yet, since the driver and the passenger each auto-upgrade for their used skills, so my driver gets better at driving and my passenger better at shooting. I am not sure why I would change, since changing would mean increase in difficulty. Or am I missing something?

The surroundings seem simpler than the previous games, but I guess that will change when I move along in the game, it does however look much more cluttered. There is a lot going on and the chaos kinda makes it bit ugly. Lag isnt so much a problem for me, but sometimes it would stutter a bit when crashing into cars and zombies and roadblocks all at the same time.

So in conclusion I feel that you may have over dressed this game. The concepts are very nice, but they seem to be a bit to much. Difficulty is also a factor. What I would suggest is to maybe add an easy mode where everything could remain the same, but when you stop at a church, garage or whatever no zombies will attack you. This would still be a bit of a hassle since you would have to accelerate again, but I think I would enjoy the game more.

Ill rate the game on what it is. still awesome, with great visuals, sound effects and story lines.

[Jinsiposhi]

Huge,attractive,great

[PenguinPyromaniac]

The good things:
-Production values are through the roof. Game is nothing short of cinematic. Obviously a lot of sweat and blood went into this thing.
-It's fun, at least when you're in control of the situation. Great combination of FPS and racer. Nothing as exhilirating as drive-by-ing a zombie.
The bad thing:
-Fighting off most zombies and obstacles isn't very hard, with the proper upgrades and enough medkits. The problem is the harder parts of the game are basically *luck based*, especially on areas with long, more or less excessive distance between save points.
-What do I mean by luck based? Well, for starters if one mutant grabs your gunner and another mutant is on the hood, you're fucked. It's over, buddy.
-Plus, it's really easy to crash into a ton of obstacles with two mutants, which happens extremely often. Stopping to fight them off without crashing into anything instead means you have to fight off four mutants and also thirty normal zombies who walk up to you, which is extremely unfun when you have limited ammo and slow reloading.
-Mines are extremely hard to see moving at high speed. The green mines blend in with trees and military vehicles and the red mines blend in with the blood and car rear lights everywhere and both are impossible to notice when you're being grappled by a zombie. And running into mines will rip a huge chunk out of both your and the vehicle's health, which is incredibly annoying.
-The bomber barely gives you any time to react when it comes back, which is very annoying as well, since it hits as hard as the mines do and it has a *very* generous area of effect in the explosions.
-The car is too fragile overall, even fully upgraded. While the driver's health can be handled with medkits and steroids, garages are often far and few in-between, meaning that an unlucky mine hit or loss of control from will rip off a huge chunk of the car's health with little chance of getting it back.
-While the upgrade/restocking system does pose a tense challenge and an excuse to blast away at zombies, it eventually gets irritating when several dozen zombies are on your ass every time you want a medkit or two. Yes, even with maxed out task speed, it's annoying every time.
The solution:
-I think the "perception" skill from the first game would do a TON to remove the sudden, luck-based and brutal deaths that happen in harder areas. Mines would be less unfair, bombers would be actually possible to dodge and you wouldn't get screwed as much by mutants on your hood constantly blocking the screen, which they ALWAYS do.
-Change the mine glows to yellow and purple or something which doesn't blend in with the environment so well.
-Faster reloads. Really, it's unfair to have players have to open them up to the possibility of a cheap death when they have to reload at the wrong moment.
-SHORTER SAVE POINTS. I wouldn't mind dying constantly if I didn't *have* to travel for 5 minutes straight to keep my still-fragile-despite-max-upgrades body and car intact through the whole time.
Overall: While I like a challenge and the meat of the game is really quite wonderful, the kind of "whoops, two major threats showed up together before you could deal with them, you're dead" RNG screwage that dominates the harder levels is not my idea of a fun time.

[Lemanskywallker]

Nice Game. Keep It Up I Need To Win This Game For Medals :D
ANYWAYS THIS GAME IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TAIWANxtwbbs]

LONG WAIT
I finally play this game