I know everyone raves about this addon but I found it to be a complete
bore. Yes I liked the premise and the zombies are really well done, but
it's so repetitive. Most of the game is rescuing towns and you always do it in
one of the same two ways, by burning a bunch of coffins in the cemetery and
putting down the remaining zombies (you have to do this twice sometimes) or
getting ammo to the handful of survivors who are usually standing on rooftops
shooting zombies with sniper rifles, and then helping them wipe out the
remaining zombies. Fun once or twice but not over and over again. And when
you've rescued a town the undead will eventually attack again so you must travel
back and do it all again and again!
There are a small number of story missions and side missions to do but they
are not even worth mentioning, although I admit I didn't finish the game so
maybe they pick up in the second half.
There are the usual high production values that RDR had in terms of voice
acting and music ect, and as I said the zombies are done well and there is a
great variety to the models so they don't always look the same, and there are
cool little random encounters where you come across people in the wilderness
that you can escort to safety and stuff and that's fun, but those are the only
good things I can say about it.
You may have read that this time around ammo will be very scarce, and you may
think this might introduce an interesting survival element to the game. Well,
just like the lies told about RDR prior to its release that survival would be a
big part of the game and hunting would be essential… It's complete rubbish.
You will struggle in your first couple of encounters but that's it. Ammo is
quite plentiful if you're reasonably careful with it and conscientious about
looting chests and bodies. You may occasionally run out of ammo for one of your
guns but you'll have plenty more for your other guns.
Other complaints I have are the same I had with RDR. There is no need to
explore this wonderful and detailed world because anything you can interact with
(including chests this time) is shown on the map. Your horse still magically
respawns if it's killed and comes when you whistle for it no matter how far
away you are from where you left it. And most unbelievably to me there is still
this BAFFLING requirement to hold down the A button to run and to maintain your
horse's speed. But at least now John won't automatically put his weapon away
when not in use so you can autorun by keeping your weapon in your hand.