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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 1.1 hrs on record
Posted: 9 Apr, 2023 @ 11:27am
Updated: 9 Apr, 2023 @ 11:31am

Lunaril's Livestream Review of Infestation: The New Z LIVE 4/9/23 on Twitch[www.twitch.tv]

Infestation: The New Z bills itself a free to play multi-game mode experience with a massive open world. You can play it as a Classic Arcade shooter, Survival game, Battle Royale, and in 5v5 competitive team combat. Released in 2016 on steam to mixed reviews, I was really excited to check this game out. I am a fan of the Zombie genre, having played 7 days to die, State of Decay, Day's Gone, Dead Rising, DayZ, and the Resident Evil series, among countless others. I know what a hit or miss zombie games can be, so I was hoping for a 7 days to die feel from it, based on some of the images I had seen.

While doing the livestream review, I jumped into the game and pretty much gave the same review information above. We attempted to jump into the Survival game mode just to check it out and found the Character creation screen so bugged out, you couldn't create a character. The visuals were behind a panel of presets so the overlap made it impossible to see your character and what they looked like. The settings adjuster for Head, Torso et, cetera, also did not populate information, and after trying to tweak the character creation settings and just trying to create a generic toon, the game would not let it be created.

We tried the character creation on several game modes, as creating a character is a requirement for entering into any of the 4 different modes, and found the same problem on each. The graphics settings were set to a resolution of 1920x1080, which is standard for most monitors, so the glitchy character creation system appears to be a bug with the game. All in all, the game seems to have more bugs than a bait store, so I can't recommend it. From a gamers prospective, if a free to play game requires you to go to forums and get technical support due to problems with getting it to work, they've already failed hard.

I get bugs on games, I've played thousands over the years, and as a fan of Bethesda Games in particular, I'm used to having issues, but very rarely have I come across a game that was seemingly unplayable at all. It was just a disappointment, as I had hoped this game could offer the same level of enjoyment as a 7 Days to Die, but alas it didn't. Sorry folks, if you want to try it anyway I hope it works for you, as for me, I'll stick with less buggy games.
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