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Spent 15 hours to build a city just to be wiped by a tornado 10/10 game

Played 4 hours, absolutely jumped out of my chair, never played again, 10/10 game

Oh yes, the average drunk, 10 packs of cigaretts, cup of coffee, name plate on the windshield, woman towel in the back, manele blasting, towel on shoulders, tank top wearing balkan simulator

There are many things that I can say to tell you that this is the best zombie game ever, but I'll keep it short.

To best describe how this game feels, Pawel Blaszczak - Passage *3:34*

Good night and good luck.

For a game that is more than 11 years old, it's a gem. In my opinion, it's in the top 3 zombie games ever and definitely the best zombie survival game.

Although I don't have that many hours in it, Project Zomboid is a game that has everything you could ask for in a survival game. From the looting and exploring to the mechanics and ambience, this game has it all.

If I wanted to write every thing that I like about the game, it would take me an hour at least so I'll leave it at this. A true survival experience, like nothing you've seen before.

If this game somehow gets remade into a 3D first person perspective it would be one of the greatest games ever and a best seller for sure.

Should you get it? 100% no questions asked.

I know this game has been out for a while, but I want to give my honest opinion after more than 300 hours spent in it.

When I first saw the trailer, in 2021 I think, I instantly got hooked because I don't think there is another game even close to this one and It lives up to it's name.

There are endless things you can do inside of it, like the campaign and the heists, but the biggest thing Teardown has is the sandbox, this is where maybe most of players spend their time. Teardown is a game where you are not restricted by anything and you can create endless stories and scenarios to keep playing for hours and a genius thing the devs did is the possibility to have mods from the launch which make the stories even more endless and exciting.

There is a LOT more to this game than what I said here, but it would take too much time to write so if you are wondering if you should get this game, the answer is an absolute yes, you will not regret it.

The game needs a lot of work, especially on performance, i have a 3060 with 64 gigs of ram and an i5-9600k and it never goes more than 40 fps on medium settings. I thought that reinstalling on an ssd would help, but there is no difference at all.

Now, for the treatment aspect, I'm not a paramedic, but I've seen other people that are paramedics or that have a medical background say it's not even close to real life and there are things that even I know are not accurate.

Now I know these are the same people that made Police Simulator: Patrol Officers, a game which I played in the past and had almost the same problems, but I thought that they would learn from them and at least give us a playable game from the get go, but no, same issues, bugs and glitches.

Now for the pros and cons

Pros:

*Graphics look better from other titles (don't be happy, they are not great, just better than before).
*Animations seem to work most of the time and not glitch.
*There seems to be an improvement to the aspect of NPCs, you see less NPCs that look the same.
*There are lots of callouts and the catastrophe events are a good addition.
*AI seems to be working good, most of the times, especially for pedestrians, I didn't have any issues with them running in front of the ambulance randomly.

Cons:
(the things I said on pros are valid, but I have some comments to make about them)

*Although I said the graphics are better, the performance is trash.

*NPCs look ok, but they say the same ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing every time you interact with them, they always say that they don't know what happened even if they are the ones who (allegedly) called the ambulance, how can a cop that is at a shooting scene tell me that they don't know what's going on and how does a patient calm down at a scene just because you tell them "oh yes, I have this arterial bleeding and third degree burns, but I am calm because the medic told me to".

*The callouts are very repetitive even after you unlock new ones because, guess what, when you unlock new ones there is no saying if you will get it the next shift, or the second one, or third. I unlocked a callout for overdosing and I got it 4 shifts later.

*The progression is very slow and not fun at all, it took me almost 6 hours to unlock the second district.

*There is no time for you to stay and learn, I wanted to open that handbook and learn what to do in different scenarios multiple times, but you can not access the handbook in the menu, when you don't have a callout or even on foot, only in the ambulance with a pacient inside and, to my surprise, the game doesn't stop when you open it up so you have no time to actually learn the procedures and what everything does.

*If you want to explore, bad luck, you have no time because you can't deny callouts. I know that this applies in real life, but this is a game and a lot of people want to explore the city and they can't. The only way you can do it is when a callout is active, but you risk to have the patient die on you and get a bad grade on that case.

*To say that the partner you have is completely useless would be an understatement, they do absolutely nothing, they don't help you treat patients or identify the ones that need urgent care. Why can't you have your partner drive and you take care of the patient? The only thing they do is yell at you from time to time, when you do a catastrophe event and have to treat 5 patients one after the other you get yelled at because you don't drive them to the hospital altough the game tells you to treat them on the spot.

*I don't understand why you can't call any other ambulances when there are multiple patients on site, you just take the one you *think* is in the worst condition and leave the others for "backup to arrive".

*Vehicle AI can cause more problems than solutions, like when you need to go through traffic why do they only make way on the left lane? Why don't they run the red light to let you through? If the first car at a red light is a van you can't pass because you will hit it.

There are more things that I 100% forgot about so as you can see there are WAY more cons that this game has than pros and maybe the biggest one is the crazy high price they are asking for it so untill they fix these things I do not recommend buying, even at a sale.

The game is good, can't say that it's better than the other ones because I didn't play them.

PROS:
-Good looking graphics
-Good gameplay
-Good sound effects
-Good soundtrack
-Wide variety of courts
-Good player customisation

CONS:
-Career can become repetitive very fast
-Many players are missing (I hope they will add more in the future)
-Gameplay is kinda hard to learn in the beggining, but then it becomes easier
-Aboslutley horrendous training in Career. You are required to do the training modules to advance your rank, but they are unplayable, the player doesn't shoot where you tell him to most of the times (especially in volleys) and when you reach platinum training it's almost a guarantee that you will need a new controller.
-Crowd doesn't react right in most situations. When you win a rally of more than 20 shots they just clap a bit, but when you return an easy ball and win the point they go crazy.
-No ability to call for a challenge (I know it's a game and it's made so that it doesn't give out bad callouts, but it would be nice to see it)

As for MyPlayer I can't say anything because I didn't play it as of this moment.

Overall it's a good game if you don't care for the things I said in CONS as they are details

When this game first released I thought it had big potential, but I had my doubts so I played it in other ways to see if it's worth buying then i forgot about it for a few months until yesterday when I decided to buy it only to realise that there is nothing new, no new mechanics, activities, jobs, the maps seem even more buggy now and after 2 hours it got very boring so I thought I could jump on multiplayer to play with other people and guess what, not even a single server was there. I don't think the main issue is the release on Xbox, it's the lack of content and the exorbitant price this game has for the things you receive so, for now, I don't recommend it.

11 years and 1000+ hours later and Franklin still didn't get rid of that yee yee ass haircut