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Mixed or average reviews- based on 32 Ratings

  • Summary: As a survivor of the mutant virus together with a comrade or alone, you must make your way through the city levels, every new area uncovering new challenges to overcome and mutants to destroy. With a large variety of weapons at your disposal, together you must wipe out the hordes of flesh eating mutants. On the way you can use vehicles and clever puzzles must be solved, but teamwork is the key to survive the DEAD HORDE... Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 7
  2. Negative: 4 out of 7
  1. Aug 15, 2011
    64
    Ultimately, Dead Horde is in an unfortunate position. It is a technically well-executed game, and its flaws are easily overlooked when you consider its budget pricing. However, the game doesn't really try anything different, and many other games have done it better in the past. The heavy reuse of assets makes it a chore to get through levels after you've done a couple of them, and the gameplay boils down to little more than using jump as often as possible and shooting your assault rifle, regardless of what you're facing or where you are. The title isn't particularly bad, nor is it particularly good; it finds itself in an uncomfortable middle, where it lacks glaring flaws as well as any memorable qualities.
  2. Aug 24, 2011
    40
    Dead Horde is a game that is riddled with bugs that could have been easily prevented. Sure the graphics are good and the co-op is pretty fun, but the gameplay gets very boring, very fast.
  3. Aug 31, 2011
    30
    You can't come up with an idea for an interesting, varied gameplay, your budget is very limited and your breathtaking script is being digested by a dog? Don't worry – just make another mediocre zombie game and publish it on Steam. Someone will buy it. [September 2011, p.73]
  4. 30
    Boring and uninventive zombie smasher is as bad as it looks like. [Issue#208]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 10
  2. Negative: 6 out of 10
  1. Besides some technical flaws, this is a really funny game. Gotta play it with another player and a 360 gamepad to fully enjoy it.
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    ext title comes with a lighter and smoother engine.
    Keep it up DNS
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  2. Buy and play it together with a friend that enjoys cooperative play, top-down and linear zombie shooting games. You control a soldier that crash lands in the middle of nowhere and starts looking for his squad. You won't be doing much of anything besides shooting zombies. You will not run into any other NPC's, just a lot of zombies that need killin'. The game grows progressively more difficult, introducing new zombies every so many maps with the occasional vehicle section that offers a break from the regular shooting. The ending is more than an anti-climax, there's not actually anything one would call an ending. The game just stops and you get a piece of text explaining why. (The storyline is not only inane, its syntax is poorly constructed as well. The latter will result in some laughs after each mission.) You can carry and upgrade several weapons which are purchased at special bunkers for money you get from killing zombies. Not all weapons are available at once, these will be unlocked for the player to purchase in later missions. There are a few highly worthless and sometimes even dangerous (to the player(s), not the zombies) weapons that are best avoided. Especially in multiplayer where being tethered together means that area-of-effect weapons are your team's worst enemy. Regular bullets can not harm the other player. You can also get each other killed by each jumping in opposite directions, this will cause the invisible box you're in to stop moving in either direction allowing the zombies to surround you. Quite a few bugs have been addressed but none of the obviously missing content has been put back in by the developers. There are signs everywhere that the game was supposed to be much greater and that what we're seeing here is a cut-down version. Still, get the two-pack on Steam if you and a friend are looking to burn a few hours shooting zombies with fun weaponry, responsive controls and cool vehicle handling (That is to say, the few minutes you actually get to drive a vehicle.) And you'll probably wonder why Valve can't create realistic looking flashlights like this! Expand
  3. Generally poor game play, poor graphics, bug ridden. Old concept done wrong. Get's boring and repetitive quickly. Unimpressive story. However its weapon upgrade system keeps it interesting for an hour or two. In the end though, this doesn't save it. Don't waste your money. Expand
  4. I'm sad to have to give this game such a low score, because it's otherwise quite fun. But it has an unforgivable flaw: you can't save your progress. No, seriously. Forget all your progress. Forget all your upgrades. Forget the loot you accumulated. If you leave the game, it's all gone. Oh sure, the game has checkpoints, but they're used only to resurrect you during this specific game session. If you leave the game, kiss your checkpoint good bye. Even an indie game can't be forgiven for not having a save feature. Even a very inexpensive indie game. People wouldn't tolerate this of a free game, nor should they. If you're the kind to play a game from beginning to end in one sitting and you have a generator to ensure that you won't lose your game in a power outage, maybe you won't care about this. Personally, I find in unacceptable. And they have the gall to present you with a menu option, when you start the game, that says, "continue campaign." Do you know what that does? It lands you right back at the beginning! Thanks a lot! Expand

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