UK PCZONE Magazine Review
UK PCZONE Magazine Review
"The most vital piece of information you could wish to know about Killing Floor is: Is it worth spending money on something you can still get for free? As usual with sort of thing, the answer is yes and no.
While the graphics have been updated from the original UT2004 mod, Steam achievements added to give a sense of progression, and the experience tightened and polished, you're till effectively paying for a free multiplayer shooter, One that also has less to it than the mod. At least for now.
The game itself, if you haven't been made aware of the surprising amount of hype surrounding it, involves fending off increasingly tough hordes of 'specimens' (zombies) before taking on a Patriarch in a boss battle. There are only a handful of official maps to play, although each one is substanstial in size. Variety comes from being able to choose perks for your character, essentially character classes. Being able to level up more than one of the these at a time is a nice touch, although some will take considerably longer to level than others.
As mentioned before, the full game has less to it that the free mod. This is because the mod's community (based at killingfloor.net/forums) has produced lots of maps, and features so its safe to assume that, with the SDK being made availableinstantly, this issue won't be one that has too much bearing in the long term. So we come back to the initial problem - is Killing Floor really worth buying.
If you're going to stick around for the long term and don't mind loading up something that gives you a "hang on, have I just loaded a mod?" feel every time you play, then yes, it's probably worth it. Everyone else will probably be just as happy sticking with Left 4 Dead" - 69/100
Quite a low quality review. Spends more time banging on about the mod history trying to be clever and creating a dilemma for the reader. That said you have to put the score of 69% into perspective. In the same issue they give Arma II 70%, Prototype 70% and Velvet Assasin 71% - all big budget titles so 69% is nothing to be ashamed of even if the review itself was rather amatuer and written by a graduate on an internship.