Pound of Ground Reviews

Pound of Ground is a (mostly) open-world zombie bashing, redneck loving, apocalypse saving, nightmare of a title. The gameplay can be fun...sometimes, but in general it's painfully clunky. Car driving mechanics are decent and I'm always a sucker for games that let you run over people/zombies. Plus using a Louisville slugger to launch zombies never gets old. The story is god awful wacky with voice acting to match. The best thing about the story is that the developers obviously weren't shooting for something serious--and they did a superb job in that regard. Overall I have mixed feelings, but because the game crashes too much, I have to go with a thumbs down. It's playable, but I came close to uninstalling it on several occasions.

Crashes on me every time I go to turn off the green fog generator. The enemy in that mission, kills you instantly all the time without having to aim. It uses guided rockets. There's no hope or, I haven't found one yet. You can get an achievement in that mission though. :D All-in-all, get it if it's on sale and up to that point, all was good. $10? Nope.

NOT some hidden forgotten underappreciated gem. It's not even one of those unpolished and rough gems, its straight up coal. It wasn't crashing at first, now it is. Large open worlds with nothing to do. Watch a 30 minute video essay instead of spending a few hours trying to get it to work.

So, you can see from the images that this game might be a fun little zombie shooter-RPG kidna game you can play, something you can upgrade your gear in, at least have a LITTLE bit of fun with right? No. Not even close. The story is just... I dunno, weird. The pacing is strange, and I'm assuming it's a translation issue but the way the game tells its story and explains things to you, the english is half broken, but only HALF broken, you can make out what it's trying to say but the way it says it and gets around the english language is just strange. The comedy is also just awful, really cringey dialogue and characters that are designed SUPER weird, almost terrifying. Some of the character models for NPC's are scarier than the zombies you're supposed to be fighting. The gameplay is honestly just boring, it's super annoying and frustrating, and worst of all (the reason that made me uninstall and refund it) is that it literally crashed my entire computer system. Not just a game crash that I had to kill from task manager, no, it crashed my graphics software which forced me to hard-restart my PC. The game itself isn't worth it to get through that kinda crashing, as the gameplay is just super standard. I got the first gun and honestly, it's really not that satisfying to play. If you want an honest good, fun, *enjoyable* zombie killing RPG, look up Fort Zombie. That's got incredible and realistic gunplay, a survivor and base management system, stats and skill management... It's just a better game than this mess.

I went into this game expecting it to be one of the worst games I have ever played and in that I was disappointed, I am a bit of a Masochist when it comes to games and I do seek out bad games as well as good ones. The other user reviews on this game plus TB's "Why do I own" video made this one sound like that would be that bad it would make a great video, So when it came on sale for 1€ I grabbed it. The game is average. It does not do anything well but doesn't suck at anything to badly nether. It is what it is. If people really need tips on actually bad games they can feel free to drop be a line because this is not it. Would I recommend this game? if it's on sale for a euro or two I guess why not but not at full price. but note it's just an average game with nothing that really stands out it doesn't do anything to wrong but nothing to right nether. For those who want a hot tip on a game that far worse than this and to prove my point. Get "Dark Apes: The Fate of Devolution" Play that a while and this game will seem rather good :P

This was possibly the worst game I have ever played in my meaningless existence; and I've played a lot of games. A lot of really bad games. So many, in fact, that one might say I am a masochist. And yet this remains the most horrid, putrid, wretched game I have ever had the misfortune of playing. I hate Bohemia for making it, I hate myself for buying it. 1.75/10

Bohemia Interactive have such a bizarre, all-over-the-place catalogue you can never really tell what you're going to get. Naturally they have the Arma series which is fantastic... they also published the UFO games which, back in the day, were great X-Com clones which have since been surpassed by games like Xenonauts but aren't bad games. Then there's trash like this. It comes off as an Eastern European teenager's first Unity game. The animation and controls are awful. If the game moved even 15% faster it might be enjoyable but the pacing is sooooo slow. The very first mission has you walking at a snails pace across boring, empty farmland fighting the same 3 zombies over and over and over... collecting coins for... something? I haven't gotten far enough to use them. The plot is laughable in a bad way. The jokes MOSTLY all fall flat. I did chuckle a few times but I think it was more because I couldn't believe the line of dialogue was in a game. I played for about 30 minutes and honestly have no clue what the game is about other than fighting zombies. I don't know who the main character is, where he's at, or why any of the game is happening. A+ stuff.

Dull, unpleasant gameplay. Pathetic animation and voice-acting. Laughable (in a bad way) story. Might be one of the worst games ever made. Don't buy it. Just don't. I give this game 0/10 pounds of ground.

It's not a horrible game, but there are many faults Good: -Music is ok -Wide open environments -Graphics are not too shabby -Driving is decent Bad: -Music is all over the place sometimes. Different styles. -Nothing in the wide open environments -Story telling / voice acting is absolutely atrocious -Consisted of fetch quest. Go from this place to this place and then back again. -Crappy framerate in busy parts...dropped down to 10-20fps -Guns are weak. Gunplay is meh. Only 5 weapons, 1 being melee -Easy game -Animation quality is poor -Lots of stupid dialogue -Forced Humor It's an indie developer so i can't really be too harsh on them. It was an ok game. I got it on sale (obviously) I"d say 4-5/10

Unpolished and seriously underrated, yet quite fun game on the mainstream theme - "zombie rampage". This time - in the distant town somewhere on Mid-West of USA. What I like about the game - is that it stays on the bright side of things. You know, the Zombie Games are usually Dead Serious. Not a bad feature, but all of them are so similar on the basic level, that it is absolutely no fun. Stubbs the Zombie was different, one-of-a-kind gem... But there is too little count of games trying comical approach on the zombie pattern - and that's a mile behind the cinematography. Which is strange, as generally, games are far more creative with things, in comparison with Hollywood... Now, Pound of Ground is not something worth a long review, really. The "Hero" there doesn't have Ash Williams charisma and chainsaw, but other than that - it's the same type of guy. The game starts a bit confusing, but quite soon you'll get a bat to crush z-sculls, then a car, a pistol, a shotgun, a long-ranged crossbow, and finally, a dynamite. Zombies will be upgrading as well, there will be monsters with distant attacks, sages-which-raising-hordes, and even bigger things on the dessert. Controls are a bit off, but only a little. In general, it is rather easy-going arcade game with the semi-open world, some zombies to kill and some hills to jump with your red cabrio. Full complete in less than 10 hours, and way better aftertaste, than with so many other Zombie games. Especially when we're talking about smaller ones, like Dead Pixels, which so many people seem to like without proper reason... Sure, Pound of Ground has many flaws, if you care to look for them - like strange name in the first place, followed by wacky start of the game, somewhat clunky controls and gameplay in general... and not-so-good code, as the game tends to crash every now and then, usually on the loading screens. On the other hand, it is doing well the thing the games are generally made for - it is entertaining. I really like it just the way it is (except for unstable code, of course). It is short and fun if a bit mindless, comedy action game about zombies. With great fusion soundtrack, which I really enjoyed. My mark is 8/10. I usually play serious long-winded games, like epic RPGs and strategies... But sometimes you just can't force yourself to take the playtime so seriously. After 16h-work day, for example... And Pound of Ground is perfectly fitting that niche of short and easy action. There should be more games like that!