KaiShenlong

Wow, this game is hard on your heart. Nothing makes me jump quite like low-crawling across a field toward a barn, then hearing a new noise. Stopping just to figure out that the noise was me on some new terrain...

After I got Arma II and DayZ both installed and running, (minor problems, but this is an alpha. I'm not complaining.) I was wandering around for about 45 minutes. (45 minutes on my first spawn, I know. I did my reading.) During this wandering, I spent almost all of my time crawling, only coming to a crouch or standing to either look around, or inside a building I had made sure was clear. I found 2 bundles of loot, consisting of 4 tin cans and 2 empty whiskey bottles. I saw no one, but I was stopping dead still at every new noise I heard, only moving after I made sure I was the one making it. When I finally decided to give up, it's not because I was tired of not finding a gun in my first loot spot. It wasn't because I had been killed, and think the game is too hard. It was because my heart was rocketing along at roughly 100 bpm, and I chose to log off and wait until my roommate was here playing as well. This game is well made, and it's a better rush than any survival horror game out there. I love it, even after only 45 minutes. Edit: I booted it back up again, and, 15 minutes later, I'm dead. Turned out I spawned just outside Elektro... Big shiny building, carefully move to loot, big fat bullet in my head. Guess I'll try again tomorrow.