The demo is available to download from XBOX Live Marketplace here.
After spending the past few weeks on Dead Rising 1, I finally completed the game and was still bloodthirsty for more zombie genre games.
Browsed through the recent game releases on Marketplace and saw that the latest zombie game was "Amy".
It had a well written overview and the plot was somewhat intriguing.
So I downloaded the playable demo and tried to play.
The city is infected! Walking corpses sniff the air, flaring out anything still alive. There is only one thing keeping you from running for your life. A special little girl holds your hand... You're not going anywhere without her. AMY offers you a tense, innovative and immersive experience in survival horror gaming. Play two original characters who alone are desperately fragile, but united become a force capable of confronting the denizens of a living hell. Get ready to become infected.
Sadly, the gameplay was not as good as what I expected.
( edit: the above was an understatement, it was much worse )
For a start, the rendering of the characters made the fps laggy and that was rather unpleasant to the eye.
It was like trying to play a PC game without having a good graphics card.
Next, the way the character moves and interacts with her environment was clunky.
Right at the beginning of the game, there was a cutscene whereby a recently infected zombie tried to attack the character. And once the actual gameplay starts, you will see that the infected zombie was dead and lying still on the ground. But when you begin to venture out and battle the other zombies on screen, the zombies disintegrate after taking one or two bat swings. Such inconsistencies on the concept of zombies turned me off totally.
See video to understand what I meant.
see 4:04 , 5:25 and 7:44 for inconsistencies of zombie concept
Perhaps I was too used to the gameplay, visual smoothness and concept of "Dead Rising".
But to play a game such as "Amy", it would be condescending for any self-respecting zombie genre gamer.
Thumbs down for this game.
