By Sam Coles:
The Zombie genre is something I have grown rather tiresome
over the years due to the over saturation, however there are few that have
grabbed my attention such as the excellent Dying Light came out back in 2015.
Killing Floor 2 is a fun multiplayer cooperative shooter with hordes of the
undead that want nothing more than to tear you to pieces, it is fun…. For a few
minutes, does it make it a bad game? No, but there is only so much you can do
in this game, let’s get into it.
Killing Floor 2 doesn’t bother with a story as this is a
purely multiplayer focused game, so there is no introduction scene just the
main menu where you get stuck in. Honestly it doesn’t bother me that this game
does not have an in-depth story as it gives you a basic context, here is a gun
and there are some zombies kill them all. It reminds of a lot of games from the
late 80’s and early 90’s with simple contexts where the gameplay and challenge
was important rather than the narrative.
Killing Floor 2 is a first person shooter where you team up
with other players to take on the undead, where you go through each wave which
gets progressively harder and you then fight a boss character. Each level has
10 waves and you may think that is not very long, you would be right if you
were to play it on lower difficulties but if you play it on hard each wave
becomes a longer endeavour with the amount of zombies the game throws at
you.
After each wave you have a certain amount of time to buy
more weapons, ammo and amour, these weapons are your standard rifles, pistols
and shotguns however you have access to melee weapons which are great and satisfying
to use. Most of the weapons are great to use with impactful satisfaction,
especially the shotguns that shake the screen with every trigger pull, or my
favourite is to go full John Woo and duel weld Desert Eagles and go nuts.
The presentation is okay, nothing mind blowing but the game
runs at 60 frames per second for the most part, it does drop when things get
really busy. I can understand why they dialled back the visuals because the
gore looks fantastic with body parts flying everywhere when you unload your
clip into the undead horde, or when they explode with a well-placed shot with
your shotgun. The gore on display is fantastic, it is like Left 4 Dead but times
10, this is why the frame has a habit of slowing down when there are tons of
enemies on screen and blood and body parts starting flying all over the place.
As well as the over top gore Killing Floor 2 has an awesome soundtrack with
heavy metal that gets you in the mood to shoot everything that gets in your
way.
The only issue I have with this game is that, it can get
boring really quickly, especially when you play by yourself as all it is horde
based zombie gameplay, I know there are people who can play this sort thing for
hours but I can’t I like variety in my games. However if you have a group of
friends you can have hours of fun with the tense situations you’ll be thrown
into, as this game can be unforgiving sometimes.
Killing Floor 2 is a fun diversion for a few hours, however
it starts to stagnate and get a bit boring due to the repetitive nature of the
horde based gameplay. Although if you grab a group of friends it is a blast to
play and it can also get rather tense. If you can convince some of your friends
to pick this game up I would say go out and buy it, but if you’re looking for a
good solo experience you won’t find it here.
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