NecroVisioN (2009)

A game that combines the first world war with fantasy elements. Even though the concept looks interesting and the graphics are still not bad for the year of release, the gameplay is so bad that the few positive aspects are not enough to make up for it. You can look at COD WW that came out a year before this game and you can see the serious gameplay difference between them. The NecroVision developers probably didn't really know much about FPS games.

This game is very VERY wonky (like it feels on purpose obstructing your progress as piling bodies make it difficult to move) but if you try hard enough there is the rare case for a survival horror FPS game here in which you are frantically trying to shoot zombies in the head with a large amount of recoil, can't walk properly with the pile of bodies mentioned, and have to every now and then do melee attacks.

I was overall impresed by this game. It's not for everyone, it feels like a rather droll and unimpressive game at first, and screens of it look underhwelming, even downright hokey. (I'd have never checked it out were it not for some well seasoned gamers I know harping on about it, I was curious what would prompt such an obsession) But as it got going i became suprisingly sucked into the story of this game as it went into an interesting direction. For that alone i'd say this game make it worth checking out. It's in a World War 1 setting, with a twist of lovecraft and maybe Brian Lumley for inspiration, but does it's own thing and doesnt rip off anything that i can tell. Reminded me a bit of Clive Barker's shooters: Undying, Jericho (and i would even argue is a much better 'game') and Call of Chtulhu Dark Corners of the Earth. Reccomended if you enjoyed those games I mention, it's a very similiar kind of experience. Farm 51 did Painkiller, I should play it, would probably like that too