Colid_Sock

I bought Nation Red on an impulse during one of Steam's big sales and I admit, I was initially unimpressed. I gave the game about ten minutes before deciding that it was too dull to handle and didn't fire it up again for about six months. When I did I can gladly say that I was utterly wrong with my initial hasty judgement of the game. It roped me in like few games have and I ended up spending a good thirty hours on it in the following two weeks. *Graphics* While the visuals in the game are nothing spectacular, they are certainly smart enough for the job at hand. The sheer number of enemies that can appear on-screen combined with ludicrous amount of blood and corpses more than make up for the lack of any up-to-date super special effects. The interface is simple, clean and does what it has to do. *Gameplay* "Easy to pick up and difficult to master" is a definitely phrase that applies to this game. Barricade mode will allow you to have the action start off slowly, gradually getting more and more frantic or you can dive straight in and get down to business immediately in survival mode. Expect zombies to be having sex with your face pretty sharpish in the latter. The game has a huge selection of weapons, perks and power-ups allowing you to mix up your play style quite drastically and take a different approach to survival each time. Power-ups are dropped randomly by enemies upon their death and include things such as bullet-time, sentry guns and even a squad of temporary backup buddies. The perks are too numerous to list but they generally cover improved damage, movement, reload times as well as various periodic area-of-effect damage perks and improvements to the various power-ups you can find. Weapons range from axes and machetes all the way to miniguns, grenade launchers and flamethrowers with a decent selection of pistols, SMGs and assault rifles in between. While the single-player is highly addictive, the game really shines in multi-player. It's an absolute blast getting some friends on voice chat for some co-op. *Longevity* Numerous game modes including the ability to play co-operatively with friends and more than 100 achievements mean that I can see myself continuing to play this game for some time to come. *Overall 7/10* This game is well worth the asking price and it drops to pennies in the many sales we see these days! It may take a couple of play sessions to click with the game which seems to have been the case with me and my friends but once it does, you won't look back.