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[Gold Prognosticus]

I downloaded the new demo of the game, and enjoyed it. It's definitely worth the price.

There's just one snag. I'm hardly the bravest person ever. Stuff creeps me out real easy*. As I played through the Ravenholm level, I wondered exacly how much of the game consisted of killer zombies.

Should I still get the game, or should I leave it and find something else?


*I can get through stuff if I persist however, but it takes me some time.

[Spiny]

If anything, the only scare the Zombies deliver is if they sneak up behind you.
The Headcrabs are abit more frightening, considering they come out of frackin nowhere half the time.

Anyway...
There's a Zombie torso hidden behind a box in a crawlspace somewhere near the part where you get the SMG.
Ravenholm and a small section afterwords, but you knew that.
There are afew scattered about the third quarter of the game.
After that, it's just Headcrabs, Antlions(Which become allies later on) and Combine.

My advice is 1:to burn/shoot every Headcrab Zombie corpse that still has it's headcrab, and is propped up against a wall before you stray too close.

2:Circlestrafe+shoot Poison Zombies.

3:Shoot Fast Zombies that climb up water ducts while they're climbing up to avoid having to struggle with it too early.

4:Aim for the head, as Grigori says.

[Warlord_Mike]

If you can see them coming, Berserk Zombies (what I call the Fast Zombies) aren't all that scary. Otherwise, you can come close to wetting your pants, especially with that leaping scream they do.

Plague/Poison Zombies, however, have a tendency to suddenly appear around corners, making you retreat in horror. Toss an explosive or something fiery their way, and your problem's solved. Shotgun doesn't tend to work that well, because they've got 3 Poison Headcrabs on them; more often than not, they survive the execution of the Zombie.

While I'm on the subject of Poison Headcrabs, if you do get bitten, once you kill them, do NOT pick up any medkits. Your health will slowly replenish itself back to its original state.

Also, if you do roast ANYONE, I typically say "I'm having a barbecue! Care to join me?"

Lastly, at Nova Prospekt, when you can use Turrets, ALWAYS carry at least one from each destination. If you have the patience to carry all that you encounter, though, you'll have EIGHT turrets to help you in the last area, but it isn't necessary.

That should about cover it without revealing a bit too much (unless you've already played the whole thing ).

[ohclizlE]

Ravenholm is the only overly-scary bit in the game (that I've played up to), so don't base your thoughts on that.
I wouldn't call it too scary myself, but I think the makers had the idea of shock/horror in mind.

[Shrowser]

I, too, am not the bravest person, and I was wondering the same thing, I played the demo as well and I thought Ravenholm was funny. When you kill zombies, the noise they make is hilarious.

[Spiny]

[Gold Prognosticus]

Oh god... on the Route Kanal level, I found an area with some health/ammo, only to have a zombie torso burst out from behind a box and scare the hell outta me...

[Mikauro.]

HL 2 isn't very scary. Go get it. Noa.

[Gold Prognosticus]

[Paper_Waluigi]

[Maximillion Face]

[Spiny]

[ohclizlE]

[Chin Fish]

Zombies are more funny than scary. The only way they can scare you is by suddenly coming out of nowhere and screaming.

[Spell Seal]

I dont like the poison zombies. They throw poison headcrabs at you and the poison headcrabs poison you and you shoot them and they run away and you waste all your ammo on the damn things.