Sounds pretty exciting, doesn’t it? I hope so, because that is the only game mode contained within this title. Only after beating him do you actually win the day. A bad ass clone with a bad ass chain gun. Eventually you reach the end of all the waves and get to fight the granddaddy of all cloning experiments, The Patriarch. You fight wave after wave of these creatures until, eventually, they are all dead and the Trader opens her doors for you to come spend the money you’ve earned slaying zombie things on more weapons. You can either pick up or purchase a decent amount of weapons to protect yourself against the world republicans see if cloning was unregulated and encouraged. Much like Left 4 Dead or 28 Days Later, these are not traditional zombies, but instead failures of a vast cloning experiment gone all survival horror. In Killing Floor you are either a cop or a soldier thrust into the middle of Armageddon. Still, at the very least it had to be entertaining, right? Kind of. Again using my fantastic sports analogies from above, this would be more like that football team drafting a guy in the last round that is actually a downhill skier and thinking “Well, if it works we look like geniuses,” and not having much to lose otherwise. What was wrong with this game that made it so it couldn’t even be put out at a normal price? Now, this isn’t a slight towards some of the great value games that have come out recently, but even those great titles they are weighed against a whole lot of weird and terrible crap. I went from uninterested to checking the “fully interested” box on my Anticipatiometer. It is like when in baseball when some kid straight out of high school get bumped into AAA or even the pros, or in hockey when some 18 year old is on the starting lineup of a playoff contender, or in football when a team spends a high draft pick on a guy from a Junior College or Division II school. This is how you can almost always bank on mods in this same situation being stellar. When a mod is plucked from the free community and invested in, it is because a company believes that mod is going to make money. I love a good mods-to-riches story, who doesn’t? One of the greatest games of all time, Counter-Strike, was originally a mod and now it is considered an iconic PC title. I gained a little bit more interest when I realized that this was actually the retail release of the UT mod of the same name. I only really became interested in it when my Left 4 Dead CAL clan all decided to purchase it. I know a handful of people considered it an anticipated title, but I was hesitant. To be honest, I wasn’t really entirely interested in Killing Floor before its release.
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