I'm terribly disappointed in the demo. I thought it would at least be comparable to the original. More of the same would not have been a bad thing. Sadly, not so. It feels icky. Hard to describe. It's like they went out of their way to fuck up a good thing. In the original, you feel in control from the get-go, and the great power and agility of your character is a rush. The big bad world is your playground. Here, it just feels like a chore, where you're slower and can do little more than constantly defend yourself. I was able to reach *one* agility orb in the half hour of the demo. Turning with the right stick is inexplicably slow, like you're pushing the camera through molasses. I found no sensitivity or speed slider for that. Everything looks grungy, including vehicles. Controls there suck too, though I could probably get more used to them. I know the city is supposed to be ruined. The game, though, wasn't supposed to be ruined along with it. The zombies make me think that somebody in the design team really liked Dead Rising. They just pop up at night and they're everywhere. Driving through hordes of them feels almost exactly like the underground garage drives in DR, only shittier looking.
Ah, well. It's not like I'm lacking a backlog of great games to get. This won't be on that list.
