Great IF you have a good group of friends to play with.

The game is kind of dull alone. And very hard on the higher levels of difficulty. And I just didn't see the point in participating in those silent, multiplayer battles. Everyone is trying to level up their characters and seems only marginally interested in supporting each other.

I played with ZBane and his friends and that started out really, really good. But as we moved to harder levels of difficulty, even that group of good folks produced the occasional sour note as players sometimes grabbed kills for themselves that other players needed. (Most of us eventually moved back to favouring Left 4 Dead 2.)

Between rounds of killing monsters, you have to get to the randomly placed gunshop. THAT is the biggest part of the strategy in the game - figuring out how to get close to the gunshop before the round ends, so that you have time to go there, buy your guns and ammo, then race to the best close defensible spot before the next round starts. Again, that can lead to sour notes, as people get caught and killed going to and from the gun shop on unfamiliar maps.

I hoped that when I'd maxed out a few classes to level 6, everything would be fun and cooperative, like Left 4 Dead. It was still kind of snippy now and then. Games are rarely the right level of difficulty - they are either too easy (with people just hanging around, letting others do all the killing until the final rounds of the game) or too hard (with people getting miffed at one another when their character dies, and they have no time to rebuild dangerous weapons before the game ends).

The voice-acting is fine, but there are far too few lines. For example, every player sounds exactly the same as they frequently repeat: Reloading!

I think I would have loved this game, if I wasn't so familiar with Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2. But I am, and they're simply better co-op games. Playing Killing Floor is like choosing Yahoo search when Google is available. What's the point?

Great IF you have a good group of friends to play with. The game is kind of dull alone. And very hard on the higher levels of difficulty. And I just didn't see the point in participating in those silent, multiplayer battles. Everyone is trying to level up their characters and seems only marginally interested in supporting each other. I played with ZBane and his friends and that started out really, really good. But as we moved to harder levels of difficulty, even that group of good folks produced the occasional sour note as players sometimes grabbed kills for themselves that other players needed. (Most of us eventually moved back to favouring Left 4 Dead 2.) Between rounds of killing monsters, you have to get to the randomly placed gunshop. THAT is the biggest part of the strategy in the game - figuring out how to get close to the gunshop before the round ends, so that you have time to go there, buy your guns and ammo, then race to the best close defensible spot before the next round starts. Again, that can lead to sour notes, as people get caught and killed going to and from the gun shop on unfamiliar maps. I hoped that when I'd maxed out a few classes to level 6, everything would be fun and cooperative, like Left 4 Dead. It was still kind of snippy now and then. Games are rarely the right level of difficulty - they are either too easy (with people just hanging around, letting others do all the killing until the final rounds of the game) or too hard (with people getting miffed at one another when their character dies, and they have no time to rebuild dangerous weapons before the game ends). The voice-acting is fine, but there are far too few lines. For example, every player sounds exactly the same as they frequently repeat: Reloading! I think I would have loved this game, if I wasn't so familiar with Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2. But I am, and they're simply better co-op games. Playing Killing Floor is like choosing Yahoo search when Google is available. What's the point?