I'm enjoying this game. It's strange and makes some bad first impressions. Off the cuff this looks pretty wretch with it's sloppy UI and spammy menu type thingie that almost looks like banner-bait! Once you get in a match, this is all done way with and the game itself is pretty good. the zombies stuff? I dont know yet. some are very WEIRD. It's pretty much shock and awe and very chaotic, but i dont know the mechanics of this game, or the various modes available (and there are LOTS)

First impressions. I played a round and unlocked a ton of items. went back into my spammy menus and fiddled with the crafting system to unlock myself some weapons and rewards.. I like this gun. it's basically a zombie jesus MG 42. it shoots fairly slow but does good damage and has huge mag cap, is controllable and really has a sweet spot for the 1.6 styled recoil system. Also it's eyes glow as you fire it and get kills and it does more damage. Oh boy... All these weapons have their own 'stats' (they arent just cosmetic skins)

If we pretend that the CTs are modern day Nazis, then that could make this an unofficial Nazi ZombieJesus gun... with glowing eyes. Wolfenstein Smolfeinstein, gravity gun shmavity gun. BFG? I'mg not sure... but I'll take the Nazi Zombie Jesus Gun. Id has nothing on this game! I also love this crazy bombastic and overly loud 'joy to the world' christmas music that will probably play all year around in the background. But hey some music is better than no music right? (the original CS had no music)

Did I mention this game was free? Also, people play it?

OK i have no idea what to make of the zombie mode. But it lets you earn a lot of XP really quickly, zombies have skill trees and powers, it looks very involved. You can spend the XP and annoying crafting system to unlock what seems like endless amounts of special guns and then customize them in both their effects and appearance. Then you can bring all your skins, weapons and whatnot into a classic cs 1.6 match. It's kind of an interesting idea.

This ultimately means that in a CS 1.6 match everyone has their own signature weapon it seems. That makes it almost feel like some kind of a hot rod show. The myraid of appearances give it a very authentic classic half-life feel. No idea how many custom weapons there are. Does this unbalance the game? I dont know i got like 6 kills and 12 deaths using AWM and MP5, wasnt relying on the powers of nazi zombie jesus and I havent played in maybe 6-8 years...

Basically this is a heaping load of content for CS with tons of game modes, some involving zombies some not. Some guns involving jesus some not. This is the true spirit of Half-life before there were clans that were sponsored by footlocker and vodaphone. (Basically CS before ze Germans ineveitably RUINED the game!) I have to say I like this and i'd lie if i said i didnt have a good time. :D

So there are some things that are atrocious bad, and some things that seem questionable. however there are also some things that are great. In short, its fun (if you like cs 1.6) and isnt a bad time for players who like the game despite its age and care more about the fun and experimenting a bit. The worst aspects of this game are minor and can be fixed or dealt with, and its a godsend that these UI issues dont migrate or creep over into a game session. You dont even have to go about trying to unlock weapons if you just want to play classic mode/original mode. There are also other modes i havent tried like CS deathmatch (that sounds interesting)

I should give CS:GO a try soon, it supposed to share a similiar weapon unlock (and even trading) scheme but for now this more than scratches the itch i've got to camp with a zombie jesus machine gun or AWP in a dark corner. alternating BOOM HEADSHOT and BOOM JESUS'D every other alternating round. In my search for a decent HL mod this more than meets the bill.

Recommended if you like Counter-Strike 1.6 or Madness Interactive. If you came into CS at source or later i dont think you're gonna get much here. This isn't really about the zombies and i'd imagine newer games are better, and if your after teamplay co op then that is also true.