I choose to recommend this game, but it does come with a word of warning. I've got a feeling I'm about halfway done with the game and while the game play is amazing, the story kind of drags it down. The writing in this game feels like it was done by several different people and none of them checked where the others were at before writing their lines. Characters will go from angry to sad to in the middle in the span of 3 lines of dialogue. There's a character who looks to be a teen, but talks like she's 6. Every time I managed to break away from the story and go do some exploring on my own I get sucked right back in. You'll quickly learn that the dialogue is bad because no one in this game ever stops talking. Deacon could be in the process of sneaking up behind a zombie to take it out quietly and will decide to loudly talk about how it's always raining, or trying to infiltrate a ripper camp and start yelling out about how he's going to get every last one of them. It's a big disconnect between what the player is trying to do and what Deacon is saying/doing. The story is uninteresting, but I keep finding myself coming back and slogging through it just to get to more of the gameplay.

The bike is a wonder to ride, the guns are equally fun to shoot, and the zombies are well zombies. The human enemies aren't great as enemies but they get the job done. The only actual criticism I have of gameplay is that gun ammunition aren't interchangeable, meaning if you have an assault rifle, but it's different than the assault rifle the enemy has then you cannot pick up the bullets that an enemy drops when you kill them. I get that in real life they have different ammunition sizes, but the game doesn't specify this. When you pick up ammo in the world, it's just classified as "assault rifle/pistol/shotgun ammo" but the shotgun shells that fit in my sidearm won't fit in my primary and the AK rounds won't fit in the MRS. Slightly annoying but on the normal difficulty the game gives you enough materials that you'll rarely be fighting tooth and nail for some.

I did manage to get this game on sale, which would probably be the only time I'd purchase it.

I choose to recommend this game, but it does come with a word of warning. I've got a feeling I'm about halfway done with the game and while the game play is amazing, the story kind of drags it down. The writing in this game feels like it was done by several different people and none of them checked where the others were at before writing their lines. Characters will go from angry to sad to in the middle in the span of 3 lines of dialogue. There's a character who looks to be a teen, but talks like she's 6. Every time I managed to break away from the story and go do some exploring on my own I get sucked right back in. You'll quickly learn that the dialogue is bad because no one in this game ever stops talking. Deacon could be in the process of sneaking up behind a zombie to take it out quietly and will decide to loudly talk about how it's always raining, or trying to infiltrate a ripper camp and start yelling out about how he's going to get every last one of them. It's a big disconnect between what the player is trying to do and what Deacon is saying/doing. The story is uninteresting, but I keep finding myself coming back and slogging through it just to get to more of the gameplay. The bike is a wonder to ride, the guns are equally fun to shoot, and the zombies are well zombies. The human enemies aren't great as enemies but they get the job done. The only actual criticism I have of gameplay is that gun ammunition aren't interchangeable, meaning if you have an assault rifle, but it's different than the assault rifle the enemy has then you cannot pick up the bullets that an enemy drops when you kill them. I get that in real life they have different ammunition sizes, but the game doesn't specify this. When you pick up ammo in the world, it's just classified as "assault rifle/pistol/shotgun ammo" but the shotgun shells that fit in my sidearm won't fit in my primary and the AK rounds won't fit in the MRS. Slightly annoying but on the normal difficulty the game gives you enough materials that you'll rarely be fighting tooth and nail for some. I did manage to get this game on sale, which would probably be the only time I'd purchase it.