Sorry mate, been offline a couple of days. TBH I've only played the first level - got stuck on the last bit with the big zombie machine gunner (until I finally figured out how to get by him) - I'm a noob at this game, I doubt there's any real difference in characters - I think the only thing you can do to judge weapons is trial and error - having said that I think it's fair to say the lower the ammo probably the more powerful the gun, I think one of the sniper rifles actually says about it having a better zoom - I assume as these were add-ons then the initial players would probably know the differences, but yeah, would have been nice to spell it out!
There is a set number of zombies and respawns - not sure if you can 'rush through' but there's definitely the same patterns (which I prefer over endless respawns until to get to a point). Some bodies stay 'forever' - it seems random, not sure if it might be only clean head shots (ie you took them out with only one bullet to the head?) but that's a total guess...the rest burn up within a few seconds so if you're quick you can grab some ammo - I generally clear an area then grab what's left.
Thanks Gooner, after playing a bit more (finally got to the first safe house, which really.. should probably only take 10 minutes or so, lol), I think you do have to clear out the zombies and you can't just run through from point to point to continue. It's pretty much.. kill all the zombies, then move on.
I also got the achievement already for stomping to death 50 zombies because as I try to snipe them, they always get to close. So I can kill maybe half of them with my sniper before I get overrun and then end up kicking the rest of them to get them off me, and then either stomping them to death or just unloading my machine into them as they lay on the ground and try to get up.
You're probably right about the guns with less rounds are more powerful, but I always do the opposite! I try to go for the guns with the largest clips because I'm such a horrible shot. Their lurching movement makes it difficult for me to get headshots and one headshot kills them anyway, so I don't know where exactly power comes in. There's probably "Boss" zombies that it matters on, I guess.
Still trying to figure out the point of dynamite. You throw it, but it doesn't explode until you shoot it. I've never encountered a situation where I had enough time to throw dynamite, retreat to a safe area and then shoot the dynamite to blow a bunch of them up.
Sniper Elite was a lot of fun. I'm kind of tempted to get this.
I'd probably understand a lot more of how the game works if I had played Sniper Elite first, (I did buy Sniper Elite III for .50 or whatever it was when it was on sale, but haven't played it yet.) but if you do get this game, it might be a really cool co-op experience. I haven't tried co-op yet, but if you decide to get it, let me know and we can try it out.
