Pretty good and nice atmosphere. Music is very good.
Minus that I find somewhat objectively bad:
- If you are out of ammo you are 100% screwed if you cannot find more, and if you neither can find ammo or an enemy you have to restart the whole game. This needs a solution. I encountered this on mission 3 roadblock.
- When you hold two directional buttons and hit a wall, you stop completely. make it so that you move in the non-blocked direction.
- The only reason I find to not run is that it's annoying to hold the button. I think you should remove the running and just increase the movement speed. If there is some reason to walk slow on any stage, make shift a slow button instead. At the moment I feel that this button adds absolutely nothing to the game.
- Graphics looks very blocky. Sprites does not melt together in a good way. They don't cooperate to make an environment. It's a bunch of trees but no forest, and graphics quality is far from music quality. If you compare old and new screenshots from the game Battle for Wesnoth, you'll understand what I mean. Here are samples from version 0.4 and 1.8 www.wesnoth.org/images/sshots/wesnoth-04.jpg www.wesnoth.org/images/sshots/wesnoth1.8-3.jpg
This especially goes for the screens between missions, although it is not that critical since you do not see it during gameplay. But they look actually really amateurish. The fonts and alignment gives the impression of a "my first game".
Minus more based on my preferences:
- I find the lack of ammo annoying. Maybe you could allow to store two or three magazines? The most annoying aspect of this is that I don't want to pick up ammo in case I need it for later, and if I do, I have to go back. If you really want to enforce this constant looking for ammo (not necessarily a bad thing) then make the ammo respawn. If this would make things to easy, then let the zombies respawn too. To make this approach interesting, only let ammo and zombies respawn, but not health.
- I would like a backup melee weapon when I'm out of ammo.
- Maybe make it possible to switch weapons so that you don't have to waste the shotgun before you need it?
General suggestions:
- Maybe you could add an option to make w and s mean move forward/backward with respect to aim, and a and d strafe sideways. I think I would prefer that.
- Add a pause menu where you can mute sound fx and music individually. (All games should have this anyway)
- Allow for saving progress