Saturday, March 28, 2009

"Nach Der Untotem"

Nach Der Untotem-"After the Zombies"

?? So much for online translations.

Untotem is the more involved of the two levels. It feels so much more realistic. In Verukt you can detach from the game and just feel like you're going through a routine, running around and checking each window. Over and over and over again.
But in Untotem it's all one room. And everything just seems more real and panicked. The four of you just running around trying not to bump eachother and hoping the guy over there is sufficiently covering the window and oh yeah dont forget the one next to the bars.

Why can't they get through the bars, anyway? Note to self: stacked sacks and widely spaced floor-to-ceiling poles are impassable to zombies. All the better though. Wooden boards that hurl themselves to the windows from midair can slow them. But god forbid there's two zombies, or them boards be goin' down.

But I'm not going to argue the realism in video games. I hate the people who do that. You're trying to get a headshot while kIlLaH666 blabs on and on over his headset about how shotguns take longer to reload and the range of this gun is actually shorter and they forgot to animate the grips on the handle and blaaahhh you have to tune him out. Or mute him when you have a second.

Which you have more of in Untotem. Things go a little slower for a little longer in that map. But when they speed up, you could still probably handle it if you weren't scared out of your mind because of the realism.

I'd still choose Verukt though. Something about being separated from the other half of the team and being able to watch the zombies literally burst from underground gets my blood pumping.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Blood pumping. Haa interesting choice of words. Zombies digging their way out of the courtyard is so sick to watch. I always break all the window panes for a better view

Anonymous said...

i like nach der untotem more it seems more authentic like you said. and ya if you dont keep your head things definately get out of control fast. ugh especially if you open the upstairs!!

Anonymous said...

Well I think they're both scary as sh*t and I freak out whenever one of the four team members randomly leaves. Especially if it was my partner :/ augh.

Anonymous said...

Ya campers and people that talk about the realism in games are just f*cking annoying. They need to just give their mics away to normal people who don't have them =)