Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare Overview
There's no reason this DLC should be this good.
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There's no reason this DLC should be this good.
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Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare Overview
- Thread starter Russ Pitts
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"Pry my gun from my undead hands"
Inspired
Don't know whether I'll get it. No problems with it, but there are loads of great releases right now.
Inspired
Don't know whether I'll get it. No problems with it, but there are loads of great releases right now.
Or you know, shoot the knees and elbows, making the zombies essentially harmless...blakfayt said:
But whatever, logic+zombies=no fun, ergo...well, I don't quite know. I'm not a fan of zombies, and this doesn't really seem like a really fitting addon to a really immersive game. Still, if you like it, more power to you...
Hah so thats how they got the Main character back! So what do you swap out with his now grown son when you want to stroll around as a Zombie ?
While I didn't hate Undead Nightmare, I did think it was really repetitive and past the first couple of towns, the ammo scarcity wasn't much of an issue. Early on, when you didn't have ammo, you ran around doing the up close kill with torch. Later on, when you had the ammo, you circled the zombies on your horse and went for the dead-eye kills. Never did see the sense of giving ammo to the settlements since I was the one killing virtually all of the zombies.
And the settlements... toward the end of the game I started riding by settlements because killing another eight billion waves of zombies had long since lost its appeal or presented any sort of a challenge. Especially after I tamed War, who could set the zombies he trampled on fire. I could see them trying to mix up the zombie types a bit to make it more interesting, but nothing in the zombie arsenal was really a match for a fast steed... the cluttered terrain of RDR was the single biggest factor in my getting pulled off of horses, not that having to run up close for a insta-kill shot with the weapon of my choice was that much more difficult to pull off.
Pros: it's a single player DLC (not nearly enough of those), good amount of content, core gameplay is reasonably fun, and the main missions held my attention... and the Four Horses are cool, especially War & Death.
Cons: not enough killing variety, not enough zombie variety, endless waves of zombies in later towns is boring instead of challenging, ammo scarcity is really only an issue in the early part of the game.
And the settlements... toward the end of the game I started riding by settlements because killing another eight billion waves of zombies had long since lost its appeal or presented any sort of a challenge. Especially after I tamed War, who could set the zombies he trampled on fire. I could see them trying to mix up the zombie types a bit to make it more interesting, but nothing in the zombie arsenal was really a match for a fast steed... the cluttered terrain of RDR was the single biggest factor in my getting pulled off of horses, not that having to run up close for a insta-kill shot with the weapon of my choice was that much more difficult to pull off.
Pros: it's a single player DLC (not nearly enough of those), good amount of content, core gameplay is reasonably fun, and the main missions held my attention... and the Four Horses are cool, especially War & Death.
Cons: not enough killing variety, not enough zombie variety, endless waves of zombies in later towns is boring instead of challenging, ammo scarcity is really only an issue in the early part of the game.
It's hard to comment on this without posting a real spoiler.Dilapsor said:
I thought it was pretty much a given that you would end up with a zombie skin by game's end. I think people would be crying foul if you didn't. And (this is something I was wondering about as I was playing) you have to figure out a way to keep the game going after completing the final mission, and said reason would have to fit in with the original game's time-line (or creating an alternate one).
The hows and whys are far more entertaining than the knowledge that you become a zombie.
Personally I didn't think it was that good. You just run up to a zombie and press R2 or RT to win. Repeat a few thousand times and DLC over. And if too many zombies get close, you just run away to thin them out and then resume pressing R2 or RT to win. It was actually quite repetitive and boring. I didn't realize how much the missions I once called "stupid" (such as herding cattle) were needed to break up the shooting and keep the game interesting; of course, in the main game, you couldn't just run up to all the bad guys and press R2 or RT to win, because you'd have "a hole in your hillbilly head" long before you reached one of them to try it.
I also think the whole "ammo is scarce thing" got overplayed a lot by Rockstar. I don't know about anyone else, but after a few rounds of pressing R2 or RT to win at various locations, I had full ammo for all the guns I cared about using and never had a problem with running out of ammo either. No survival horror for me, I was playing a shooter still. A very easy shooter. I also found it a lot shorter than others have said, I don't know where people were getting the 8 hours they used to say, and now it's 10? I had this done in 5-6, which is good because it was so repetitive.
Overall I found the "Undead Overrun" MP mode to be a lot more fun than the single player part of the DLC. The package as a whole is alright, but not nearly as good as people say it is. Personally if I was going to rant about DLC being awesome, I'd talk about The Lost and Damned for GTA IV. Not this.
I also think the whole "ammo is scarce thing" got overplayed a lot by Rockstar. I don't know about anyone else, but after a few rounds of pressing R2 or RT to win at various locations, I had full ammo for all the guns I cared about using and never had a problem with running out of ammo either. No survival horror for me, I was playing a shooter still. A very easy shooter. I also found it a lot shorter than others have said, I don't know where people were getting the 8 hours they used to say, and now it's 10? I had this done in 5-6, which is good because it was so repetitive.
Overall I found the "Undead Overrun" MP mode to be a lot more fun than the single player part of the DLC. The package as a whole is alright, but not nearly as good as people say it is. Personally if I was going to rant about DLC being awesome, I'd talk about The Lost and Damned for GTA IV. Not this.
I feel slightly stupid for asking, but ZASHSOWS? What are they? Who are they? When are they? Where are they? These are my questions.
A good review though, it is a great bit of DLC in my humble opinion, its just a shame it wasn't longer, but I doubt you could call it DLC if it was much longer, it would start becoming just a new game.
A good review though, it is a great bit of DLC in my humble opinion, its just a shame it wasn't longer, but I doubt you could call it DLC if it was much longer, it would start becoming just a new game.
