I've only managed a small amount of play, due to real life and server problems, but so far I am underwhelmed. Arma II is clunky, man, clunky. The PVP seems to be pretty much constant. And I never liked fast zombies.

Reading through the Day Z boards, I see the most common response to the PVP thing is "this is realistic," to which I say:

  1. Realism should always serve gameplay, not the other way around
  2. and in a real total meltdown scenario, teamwork would be king. Lone wolves have shorter life expectany in genuine disasters.


But as it stands, the game inordinately rewards random murder and looting. I guess if that's the sort of thing you're into ...