I'm having a blast with this. I wasn't too impressed with the gameplay footage I saw but I heard a few people raving about it so I gave it a shot. It REALLY captures the atmosphere and challenges you'd face if you were actually going through a zombie apocalypse. Here's something that happened last night before I quit. I thought it was a perfect example of just how right the game gets it.
I just did a quest where I had to go investigate a gas station that had been overrun for supplies for a band of survivors that had holed up inside a lighthouse and needed food and gas.
So I hopped into a truck and sped down the road, mowing over zombies like nobody's business. I hit 3 or 4, then my windshield shattered and I couldn't see. So my character punches out the windshield at full speed and I mow throw another group on my way to the station.
I get to the station and it's a ____ing nightmare. Zombies everywhere, standing water near a ladder I need to access that was electrified because of downed power lines. Oh, there are also a couple of Thug zombies (giant ____ers that you can't fight, you have to find other ways to kill them) roaming around which are goddamned terrifying. I find a way to disable the electricity, which included dropping through the skylight of a shed out back, luring the Thug zombie to the back and then sprinting around him to hit the switch and open the bay door, all the while going "oh____oh____oh____" because I'm terrified he's gonna reach me before I can get it done.
I manage to get out a split second before he gets to me, sprint back to the truck, disable the rest of the electrical boxes and get ready to take on the gas station itself. I hop BACK in the truck, one step ahead of some sprinting infected, then proceed to take out all the zombies roaming about just to make sure there are no surprises. Head back to the gas station, back the truck up to the now-open doors, run inside and grab the supplies, toss them into the back of the truck, and speed the ____ out of there just before a new group of zombies reaches the station.
It's intense, man. You have to really think and plan for what you want to do, or else you're dinner.