#UNTURNED SURVIVAL FREE#

Can you fix my computer?’” I see him as part of the same new wave of game makers that I wrote about yesterday, people who’ve grown up with Roblox, Minecraft and DayZ, and witnessed them being built around them as they’ve played and built in turn. “I remember my chemistry teacher came up and said, ‘Hey, you made Unturned! One of my students was talking about that. Sexton started making Unturned when he was 16, so throughout its development he’s been at school, not that he really told anyone there. Continuing that opening quote, he said, “But then – and that’s not to say it isn’t bad, but who knows – they tried it and they actually really enjoyed it, and that they wouldn’t have tried it if it cost money.” It’s hard not to like someone who made a game played by well over a million people a fortnight and says “who knows” about whether it’s good. He’s gently and precisely spoken, self-assured given his years, and has that cute Canadian burr. Nelson Sexton lives in Calgary with his dad. I think you might like him – and maybe Unturned, too. I was really curious who this guy is, so I rang him up. Players really like Unturned: its Steam ratings are 92% positive. But it’s had 17.5 million downloads on Steam, with 1.25 million people playing it in the past two weeks. On first glance, the Fisher Price art direction of this Early Access zombie survival sandbox surely wouldn’t trouble old man DayZ and his gang. While it may suffer from a few minor interface issues, this is no reason not to try and survive this blocky zombie take over.“I get so many emails from people saying they thought the game looked atrocious and they played it just to laugh at how bad it was.” Nelson Sexton has a pretty good attitude towards his game, Unturned.

#UNTURNED SURVIVAL FREE#

Unturned is an enjoyable free experience that balances the desperateness of its world with a jolly look and style. Though, it must be noted that whatever the visual setting you set, at night you will be seeing close to nothing. These allow you to scale the draw distance, add additional water effects, shadow, lighting, and focus, all of which combine to give a remarkable beautiful look to the blocky world. Stumbling blockĭespite the simplistic Minecraft look, Unturned offers numerous scalable options to provide users with machines of varying power to enjoy its open-world action. The result of this is maddening situations in which you find yourself doing well only to be cut down by your inability to pick up the gun or ammo that could keep you alive.

This leaves you sprinting through the world trying to find items to help you fight, unfortunately targeting items to pick up is a little hit and (a lot of) miss.

Once spotted by a zombie (even ones that can only crawl), it gives almost unstoppable pursuit always seeming to end up right behind you - even if you are in a car. Here is perhaps the game’s one glaring issue. With you have nothing in your inventory as you begin, it is up to you to explore the world to fill up your backpack to do battle. The shooter elements are similarly familiar, with the mouse controlled targeting feeling incredibly natural, despite the abstraction of the world. The WASD keys guide movement, while the lifesaving run, duck, and crawl movements are all conveniently bound around them. Thus you must use stealth and guile to survive until you are well stocked for the fight ahead. While multiplayer servers do allow you to occasionally meet other people as you play across the game’s maps, more often than not the only beings you encounter will be the undead.

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