I have a question to you all. The WaeZ got a really bad rep on steam and got hacked and so on. The game was rated poorly how ever on Twitch TV the games gets a high amount of views?
This is really weird, can someone explain this to me?
Is this game good or not?
Is the media leading me to BELIEVE it is a bad game?
I guess you can only try it out for yourself. Though, I think you're missing the main concerns. WarZ is a controversial game, trying to cash in on the popularity of a mod called "DayZ" (ARMA 2 mod). WarZ was rushed to release, full of bugs, and sold as an unfinished product. That's why Steam had it removed from sales, initially.
So, it has gotten itself a lot of bad press. Supposedly, there was a lot of screen shots that were "over-dramatised" to encourage sales of the game. There appeared to be a lot of dishonesty. Refunds had to be given for the game, there were a lot of unhappy users. I do have some friends who still enjoy WarZ, however. You might find it is worth checking out. I know Steam had it on sale for a few dollars recently.
The DayZ mod has been so successful, that they are going to release the standalone version later this year. I'd imagine it will be a much better game.
They just officially changed their name. I got this email from them:
Greetings Survivors!
Effective today, The War Z has changed its name to Infestation: Survivor Stories. This change has come about primarily as a result of some confusion and trademark issues with a similarly titled property. While we were reluctant to rename the game so long after launch, especially with nearly 1 million registered players, it was ultimately decided to be in the best interest of our existing community as well as future players in order to eliminate confusion. Please rest assured that this will in NO WAY affect you as players. The only difference you will see is the change in logo and website. There will be no interruption of service or change in content.
So, welcome to Infestation: Survivor Stories – have fun and stay alive!
The developers lied about numerous things, which lead them to be kicked from steam.
They lied about being in development for several years. Many aspects of the game were borrowed from War inc.
They even went as low as to steal pictures from The Walking Dead for use in game.
Yesterday I got a letter in my email that reads "Effective today, The War Z has changed its name to Infestation: Survivor Stories. This change has come about primarily as a result of some confusion and trademark issues with a similarly titled property. While we were reluctant to rename the game so long after launch, especially with nearly 1 million registered players, it was ultimately decided to be in the best interest of our existing community as well as future players in order to eliminate confusion."
Apparently they didn't bother filing for trademark rights. So now they have re-branded themselves to target more consumers.
All in all, it seems they were trying to get the game to market as quickly as possible to feed off the success of DayZ. This game is a money grab.
The game is full of hacks, runs like shit despite it's terrible graphics (source engine games look 10x better) and the the game mechanics are just downright awful from the git-go. Play DayZ instead.
I have it already, a friend gave me his account for it. I would still not buy it, but I would give the game another try if I could play it for 5 minutes without getting cross-eyed and motion sick. So yes if the game ran smoothly it would be a lot better, the zombies' damage output should be nerfedor rather there should just be fewer zombies, and there needs to be some serious anti-hack work done to the game. After that, I will play it. As of right now you spawn in the game with absolutely nothing, and if you do happen to find a flashlight or a hammer it still takes upwards of 5 hits to kill ONE zombie. Also impossible to loot for weapons because there are like 12543243983 zombies per square foot in all the towns.
I picked it up 2 day's ago when it was £2 smashed a zombe in the face with a flashligth around a million time's it dident die and it killed me lol havent whanted to play it again.