Dead Effect 2

Well, I've put some hours into this game.. and I must admit, it's a solid shooter. For a game that comes from a mobile platform it's pretty neat. It has some flaws and questionable features but it's not like they're gamebreaking. It could be much better but it is what it is. Even the bad voice acting is not that annoying after a while, you just get used to it and stop paying attention.
Worth buying on sale to pass the time and have some fun shooting zombies.

LIKE MANY GAMES DEAD EFFECT 2 IS UNDERRATED
GAME IS REALLY GOOD AND STRONG
TO MANY TOOLS AND UPGRADE AND WEAPONS
TO MANY MISSIONS FOR PLAY
ITS AWESOME ZOMBIE KILLER
I SAY 9 OF 10 IS WHAT DEAD EFFECT 2 DESERVE

Dead Effect 2 - Single Player / Single Game Review (Opinionated)
The prequel has no bearing or relation to this review.
The story had a sound base structure; however only provided a shallow depth for intrigue. The game did not emphasise what could be seen as a great read if novelised especially when the DLC - Meridian finished the story with a smaller addition to the ending. Following a key character's plot, the world (ship) around her did not change even though some events happened; however having the replay capabilities was handy when reading the tablets.
6/10
The audio and visual effects were great, though when playing on the hardest difficulty in some matches caused freezing. The age of the game for today's gameplay visuals does not stack up, although this does not affect gameplay.
6/10
The gameplay was repetitive with the slow accrual of additional items and enemies as you progressed and got worst when trying for all the achievements. The amount of weapons were great until undertaking the most highest difficulties when the weapons did not get better. The only way to improve was by undertaking additional side missions; which was a great way to gain the extras for the achievement hunters but was not really required to complete the game. These side missions were also repetitive in nature from trying to get a unique weapon to upgrading skills and abilities of weapon types.
5/10
Achievement Hunters - Prepare for a long haul with large amounts of enemies one must kill to get a single upgrade of a weapon ability or unique weapon. This unfortunately is a classic game requiring large amounts of time to get single achievements.
2/10
OVERALL a solid game for run and gunners that want to just kill zombies and other creatures but not for those seeking an in depth RPG or Story.
19/40 - Playable.

If you enjoy games like Borderlands,Warframe,Killing Floor you'll like this game! Alot of weapons/equipment and stuff to do, funny dialogues too!

meh... buy it when it's on discount and if you want to just shoot something. it has cool weapons and skills customization system. voice acting is corny as hell tho, and that russian accent is so fkn stereotypical and bad; like, most russians don't stress words like that, that much. overall, it gets boring after a while but I mean it's a mobile game on PC, so what do you expect. 5/10

A simple, straightforward, yet unexpectedly fun looter shooter where you go around a space station shooting zombies by the hundreds, solo or with up to two friends. The game takes a bunch of tested and proven ideas from Killing Floor - such as the slow-mo mechanics, special zombie types - and spins it into an RPG shooter with a rather straightforward-yet-deep-enough progression system.
Progression is very much tied to your gear and abilities you unlock & upgrade by leveling up and completing side tasks. Gear is plentiful. Equipment slots number in the dozen and are split into three categories: weapons, gear and implants. You're almost bound to check your inventory for possible updates
On the gameplay side, you can see the mobile port translated to a PC game, especially in the minigames you're required to play to interact with objectives, open doors and smash open loot containers. However, they work just fine in the context of such a simple game, and don't really feel like a hindrance at all.
Gunplay can be a hit or miss, as most of the weapons lack the oomph you'd expect them to have. Nonetheless, it's fun to play around with the many different types of guns you find, blasting zombies and enemy soldiers to bits left and right.
The voice acting is silly, but works where it needs to. Every character seems to be voice acted, but the ones that you listen to the most luckily aren't that bad.
The menus are pretty awful. Filled with buttons, oversized text and unintuitive menu flow can cause some brain hemorrhage.
If you enjoy looting, shooting zombies and co-op gameplay, you'll probably have at least a few fun hours with the game. I wouldn't bother playing it solo, though. Get a friend or two to keep you company.

The game does feel mobile, but it is surprisingly well done when it comes to the loot aspect, things to get through challenges, ability system or the progression. Of course I will admit that the plot and voice acting are (cheesy and) decent at best, but the world itself can be interesting and keep you engaged throughout the story pretty well. The game reminds me of Warframe or Destiny when it comes to farming items, since you will have to repeat missions over and ooover again to drop high tier equipment, which might be really annoying to some people, I (as a ps4 Warframe veteran) have no issue with that. Mechanically the game revolves around positioning well and not getting overwhelmed by the enemies, which are designed totally fine for a mobile shooter, but could use more depth in how you confront them. Both story and non-story missions are somewhat bland and very simple, most of the time you run from place to place and interact with objects or kill hordes of zombies, which to me is brainless fun I like from time to time. Also the 54-track score is actually solid, having several ambitious pieces that left me astonished because I honestly wasn't anticipating their quality. On the technical level, the optimisation isn't the best, big numbers of enemies in one area can easily drop your framerates to console level performance, what can be dealt with by lowering some of the settings; even though it's a mobile game ported over to pc (or mac) it looks pretty good I'd say; the interface is good enough and functional but the "Side Tasks" feels like it was made for controller usage, and is the most unwieldy to 'navigate'; the HUD slider should have a much bigger scale factor, I feel like even it's maximum value of '1.5' doesn't make the HUD big enough in 1080p; overall the game works really well for me, the only few bugs I experienced were objectives not working properly or an enemy getting stuck inside a wall, which both were fixed by restarting the mission and only occured like 2 or 3 times in over 30 hours I have in the game.
I think the game is worth the shot if you are bored with Destiny or burnt out on Warframe. The gameplay loop is pleasant, the loot is much more interesting than in Destiny 2, and there is a lot of things to farm in the game.
(DLC content adds the 4th character to play, and new abilities similar to hers for the original classes to unlock too; it also adds the last act of the campaign, completing it and adding more side missions, what sucks is that it's exactly what Destiny is doing since 2014, cutting content from the base game and selling it as DLC....... that being said I bought the DLC and I'm satisfied with it.)