Timothy M

I would rather castrate myself than have to play this game another minute. If hell exist, it’s just an eternity of playing this game. DayZ has a lot of promise, there are a lot of cool things to do in the game and the level of realism is unmatched. The soles on your shoes wear out if you use them too long, you get sick if a sick player coughs near you, and if you use a knife too much it dulls out and needs sharpened. You can also find car parts and repair the old broken down cars scattered across the map. The problem is the hunger and thirst “features.” You will literally starve to death for walking a mile. You will starve to death for jumping to much. You will starve to death 15 minutes after spawning in. And food, food is impossible to find. You might spend 10 minutes searching for food and find just a single apple. That apple will fight off your starvation for about 2 minutes. The game has a ton of cool and awesome features hidden behind a “food wall” that feels like you would have better luck running an infomercial on a late night TV show asking for sponsorship for “pennies a day” to get the food you need to enjoy this game. If your ideal gaming loop is running around looking for food for 15 minutes then starving, and respawning just to do it all over again, then this game is for you. I recommend any game over this game, even the ET game that caused the gaming market to crash. DayZ is full of promises that it just doesn’t deliver on. All the cool and exciting things you see in the ads, streams & YouTube videos for this game aren’t going to be something YOU get to do on here. Those things are reserved to the people that play games for a living. They have the time to hunt for an apple for 18 hours a day, they will get past the hunger loop. But your average gamer will not. I would give this 0 stars if I could.