• Summary: It’s a co-op survival horror game. Up to 6 players in online co-op mode, or just you, on your own, playing the Solo mode. The aim - cleanse each area of zombies, in waves, until you get to the last one. The Big One. The Patriarch. Then exterminate him, too. Actually, they aren’t "zombies". They are the left-over "specimens" from a cheap and dirty government program to clone soldier-monsters. The basic ones will just munch on your arm and try to disembowel you. The bigger ones were the first ones they tried arming. Nothing much. Just a chainsaw or a blade for starters. They had just got on to the chain gun and rockets when the government tried to secretly shut down their secret program. But, in the typical way these things go, the program didn’t want to be shut down. The specimens got loose. No-one was left alive to turn off the specimen-cloning equipment. And now they are running amok. Well, some of them are running amok. Others are shambling amok or even jumping amok, but you get the idea. The police were sent in, but that wasn't even a challenge for the specimens. The first army units hadn't been warned what to expect. The screams of its got a bloody chainsaw!" over the radios probably didn’t do much for morale, as whole units were chewed up. Quite literally, in some cases, of course. And now, there is just you. And a few friends. The few survivors from the first police and army units thrown in. Of course, you can’t tell anyone anything, because that would be a breach of the Official Secrets Act 1911, 1920, 1989. And that would be a disciplinary offense. So just get in there and do your bit for Queen and Country. Zombies. Lots of them. Big ones, little ones. Armed and Dangerous. JUST MAKE THEM ALL GO AWAY! [Tripwire] Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 30
  2. Negative: 1 out of 30
  1. If you've enjoyed zombie games of the past and want to see a different take on what cooperative zombie horror games should be like, then I think you will enjoy Killing Floor too.
  2. Once a mod now a game on its own, Killing Floor confronts the player with hordes of undead minions threatening his character's life. While being independent enough of zombie-shooter-king Left 4 Dead with features like sealing doors, character perks and weapon stores, the game itself offers little variety and a flawed AI.
  3. Even talented designers couldn't have saved Killing Floor. The game is so low-budget that it evokes pity instead of nostalgia. The visuals aren't bad for an Unreal Engine 2 game, but they are a far cry from modern shooters. Threepenny lighting and jerky animation are the worst horrors you'll see here.

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  1. Negative: 19 out of 318
  1. DanS
    10
    Despite this game having the lowest metacritic score on my games list, it's undoubtedly my most played. The game is simple yet addictive. Killing Floor doesn't hide behind shiny graphics or a carefully crafted backstory to get you "entertained", it throws you in a map with guns, friends, and a horde of mutants and says "enjoy". If you're more concerned with how well wet rocks reflect light than blasting that monster gnawing on your arm, then the game isn't for you. There's a ton of servers even after you put on plenty of filters, so there's never a worry about not finding a server to play on, the only downfall is that you never know what wave the server is on; joining matches where they're a round from the final boss or already killing it happens way too often. Overall, I give this game a 10/10 simply because the ratio of the hours I've played verses money I spent exceeds 10; in fact, it exceeds 20. eat that L4D. Expand
    • 5 of 5 users said yes
  2. It's fun, it's challenging, it's one of those zombie games that requires the right amount of skill to make you feel in danger but still being possible to win. You'll play the same maps and games over and over and still get a challenge, even if you've already beaten them. There are many zombie types, each unique, the mix of them makes it strategic, making you think fast who you're going to snipe, shoot because it's fast, etc. The guns are varied and nice, the melee weapons are also viable if you're good and can aim heads. Compared to left 4 dead, it,s only one, maybe two notces below, in gameplay it's equally good, yet completely different (so you should get both!). The graphics and polish isn't as impressive as l4d, though. Great game, can last you over 20 hours if you enjoy it. Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. Lackluster is the best word for this game, i bought it because i had a fanboy friend who played this hours on end who kept telling me to play. It has nothing, it's jsut a standard shooter with huge repetition. Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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