District Zero

An awful FPS that is tense for all the wrong reasons. Why? Because there are no saves, no checkpoints, nothing. You die, go back to the very start. Except for the boss, the weapons (pistol, rifle) seem to have an effective range of only 5 feet. Hit detection is less often hit or more often miss and your flashlight is rather useless as lots of areas are still dark. The most difficult part is a storage area near the end of level 2 where 1-3 giant enemies clipping through everything spawn that seem to take no damage and will damage you with no indication at all. You may not pay with money, but you're paying with time better spent elsewhere.

Environment graphics are OK. Enemy graphics are horrendously bad. When you crouch, you crouch in one frame. So your view just bounces up and down if you press and release Ctrl. Enemies show no indication of being hit or taking damage until they die. I genuinely have no idea if my weapons even work until I kill something. Enemies jump and teleport randomly. You randomly teleport into new rooms (or I step on something to trigger that? Still no idea how that works). No indication of available ammo (I have 30/30 loaded, great! But how many total?) One of the ugliest HP indicators I've seen in the last decade. Overall, feels like a student project. Needs massive user interface overhauls to be reasonably playable.

The Game is Jank I think that is all that needs to be said. The game has ton of glitches. You must restart every time from the very beginning of the game if you die or a random game stopping glitch happens. The monsters phase through walls. The guns don't seem to be very accurate. The game is terrible. I did have fun playing the game. But I do not recommend unless you like janky games.

District Zero is a short horror shooter that I found surprisingly effective because it mixes straightforward gunplay with the feeling of being trapped somewhere I really do not want to be. I am stuck on a spaceship that has been overrun by aliens, and my only real goal is to survive long enough to reach the escape pod. I liked how quickly the game establishes that simple objective because it gives the whole experience a constant sense of urgency. The shooting is fairly basic, but it works well for the kind of short horror experience this is. I move through the dark corridors, use my flashlight to see what is ahead and fight the aliens whenever they get in my way. I liked that the flashlight becomes an important part of exploration because the darkness makes it much harder to feel comfortable. Even before an enemy appears, I am already wondering what might be hiding just outside the beam. The survival side adds a little more tension to the combat. My helmet provides information about my health, while stations around the ship can help me stay alive. I enjoyed having to pay attention to my condition instead of simply running forward and shooting everything. The announcements also gi…

Yeah this game is bad

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