Good concept but really buggy. The controls were tedious. You have to click every character to perform an action and sometimes they just stand there waiting to die. Some of the characters were useless and you don't have to use them all. The missions were just going to point A to point B. Strategy? No strategy at all. You can easily outrun every zombie using a single character. There's no tension on the game or give a little scare because you can see them already on the map. It should've been shadowed until you reach every part of the map. I tried to like the game but there's nothing special and other modes. Don't bother multiplayer on this, it's dead. Trapped dead.

Trapped Dead is one of those games that you install and play for an hour but feel a little bit uninspired to keep going. I load up the game, play through half a mission or so until I reach a save point, but tend to quit and end up playing something else when I have time.

That's not to say Trapped Dead is a bad game because it isn't, it's actually good value for the money, but I get a sense of things going a bit slow whilst playing it. For an independent developer, the game has been carefully created and carries enough polish and presentation values.

I guess that if you are used to a strategy game being a bit faster pace like I am, Trapped Dead will either fail to impress, or it will be one of those games you load up to fill the odd hour you have spare every now and again.

Trapped Dead is another step closer to what I would like to see in a zombie game. Again we're dealing with a small shop that has accomplished a lot but could have done so much more.

I enjoyed the feel of the game with the dark surroundings and the slow but persistent zombies. I'm not a big fan of "special" zombies that have abilities and Trapped Dead avoids them and only has larger boss zombies that hit(bite?) harder and have more hit points.

The maps are pretty and detailed but not too interactive. Nothing really gets destroyed aside from the items considered traps (fire extinguishers/gas cans)

The gameplay is formulaic in that there is a definite process to slaughtering the zombies. Once I had it down it became sort of easy while still being entertaining. However there were a couple of fights where I had the feeling I would be overwhelmed.

The game is short and doesn't offer any modes (e.g. survival mode) but I didn't really expect that with a $19 price tag. Never did get the multiplayer to work, don't know if it was firewall related or that no one is playing in North America.

There are still some sporadic issues that prevent you from adequately controlling your people. Hopefully that will be fixed and the developers will additionally let the users take care of their own keybindings.

Still waiting for a game that is as enjoyable to play as Dawn of the Dead was to watch.

Trapped Dead is a game that could have great potential. To start, the graphics and environment are great, those alone almost make the game worth playing. You truly get a feel that you're in a zombie movie. The developers are good at getting out patches as well and I had one major bug, but the problem was fixed with a patch. However, as great as game could be, it has many problems:

*Character pathing is pretty bad, you'll spend time forcing individual manual movements.

*Recent patch has increased zombie attack speed, which makes melee harder- probably get changed back.

*The game is short, took 8 hours to finish it, perhaps they'll be like Paradox where they add more material with patches, perhaps not, I have no clue.

All in all, I did enjoy the game, the traps were cool and the voice acting was pretty decent. I wish it was longer or like X-Com where you would get attacks and you would have to go to those zones, but alas, X-Com was a rare treasure. Good game, sorta short, has its problems but I don't regret buying it.

I have been waiting patiently for this game to come out since I discovered it last year. I had just finished Zombie Shooter 2 and Zombie Shooter, and I was really in need of a new Zombie fix.

I pre-ordered Trapped Dead on GamersGate this week and was able to download it on Thursday night.

Note: I pre-ordered for $23.96 with a price guarantee that if the price dropped for 6 days I think I'm supposed to get some kind of rebate. Well, since the price is now at $19.95 I hope that GamersGate makes good on that.

Finally started playing last night.

When it first started I was really impressed, but then I started to notice a lot of jerkiness in movement and behavior when I would click to do things. Actually got killed once and badly injured once due to lack of responsiveness.

I finally had to turn off all of the options on the Graphics tab except for anti-aliasing to get it to respond better. This helped a lot. I don't have the newest machine, but it isn't too shabby either. WinXP Pro, P4 2.6ghz, 2gig RAM, GeForce 7600 AGP card, running in 1024x768 on Samsung 46" LED TV. My system handles more graphically intense games just fine. Since there isn't a lot of action on screen with this game I really didn't expect the lack of performance I was seeing.

Have noticed a few issues. When I was in one area of the hospital, I would click to go from one room to another through an open door, but for some reason the path-finding logic was trying to exit the room through another door, go down a long hall, then enter the room I wanted to go into through another door. I seem to recall the shortest distance between two points being a straight line.

Also the logic that moves the character sometimes moves him erratically before finally positioning him where I selected.

I really had a problem after reaching a save point just outside a hospital door. The save point was located directly behind two zombies eating. I had my bat in hand, stepped on the save point to save and be sure the zombies hadn't detected me, waited for the saved game acknowledgment, then proceeded to attack the two zombies.

I ended up getting killed so I loaded from that save point. Holy Crap! The save point reloaded, but it started with me having no bat in hand, and the zombies were standing there looking at me and beginning to attack. That was not the state of the game when I saved! Since I wasn't expecting that I ended up getting killed again.

When I loaded that save point again the same thing happened, but since I was expecting it this time, I was barely able to get away, equip my bat, then walk around long enough to get some distance and kill the zombies. Whew!!!

Overall, I am enjoying the game. I am not a fan of games where the zombies are as intelligent as I am and pack heat. I like my zombies the way mama made 'em: slow, shambling, brain-hungry, and in large quantities. The old "one isn't dangerous, but several together will eat you for lunch, literally" adage applies here.

If you haven't played Zombie Shooter, Zombie Shooter 2, or Zombie Driver, you need to check them out. Pretty good games. I am now waiting patiently for Dead State, by DoubleBear Productions to come out. It looks excellent!

I also just downloaded Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green and it is pretty good too.

I'm not crazy about L4D as I had crash issues after downloading it from Steam. Also, I prefer to take my time going through a game and use stealth and strategy rather than having to fire madly all the time. Also wish I could play L4D with just my single character and no helper bots. For me they get confusing.