If I can just - blow out a detail I think I caught, Phalanx, the drug that slows the zombie virus, it probably a reference to World War Z - the book by Max Brooks not the Brad Pitt movie. In the book the zombies are very Romero-like. The story is told as an in-universe collection of memoirs from different survivors of the Zombie War. One of those being a pharmaceutical corporation CEO that markets a "Rabies vaccine" called - Phalanx. Which people take under the assumption that the company sold them, that it will keep them safe from the outbreak. Its actually a decently important part of the in-universe lore and series of events that led to an almost outright Zombie Apocalypse. As someone who loves World War Z as one of those super in the weeds takes of a dead walk the Earth story, hearing the drug was called Phalanx perked my ears. Assuming that the Phalanx in NMRiH was added after or during 2006, the year the book released, I'm pretty sure it's a reference. Also just to keep rambling. The name of the game is more then likely (some dev interview may of confirmed it) a reference to a line from Romero's "Dawn of the Dead" from 1978. Where a character, looking over a mob of zombies trying to get in. Says "When There's No More Room In Hell, The Dead Will Walk The Earth." Anyway nice video Orbit! Really fair look at both projects which I appreciate. Keep it up!
I mean yeah, minecraft has a more kid freindly style than nmrih, so of course no would complain a baby zombie in minecraft. Even more that "baby" zombie is just a small normal zombie with a big head
It’s a funny observation but Zombies in Minecraft are more like their own creatures, while in NMRiH the implication is that children were savagely overcame by Zombies, which is really disturbing to think about, and that’s the point. If you were in a zombie apocalypse you would likely be shocked at the sight of a walking child corpse . That’s horrific! Probably leaving it enough time to gnaw your face off. People complaining that it was disturbing didn’t complain about being able to eat your gun, so who cares what they say
If i remember correctly, the zombies are based off of George Romero movies, as for the story, there is a little bit of a background on how the virus started and what it is, but the game is more like a collection of different stories from different survivors. On every map, on the loading screen, you can see a background of a map and usually a note or a sign where a backstory of a map is written.
Also many of the zombies are modeled after/Romero Zombies like bud, Flyboy, Tom Savini and the jawless poster zombie from day of the dead. Many of the maps are also inspired from the movies or just straight up almost 1:1 recreation like the bunker/mine from day of the dead.
The whole game is working on the idea of zombies as imagined by George A Romeo, as the title of the game is referring to the tagline for the poster of the 1978 movie Dawn of the Dead "When there is no more room in Hell, the Dead will walk the Earth." Fun fact as to how Romeo's Zombies had a role in making the Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman said the Night of the Living Dead Movie was never made, which means the concept of Zombies in the Walking Dead, as in our Pop Culture, do not exist.
If you stand still and aim for 3 seconds, you'll enter "focus mode" where you can kill zombies in one headshot regardless of what gun you use. Also, melee charge damage and stamina usage is dependent on how long you charge the weapon - too long and you'll exhaust yourself, too short and you'll gain negligible damage increase.
This game is a hidden gem. It's so realistic, grim, and depressing. The artwork is amazing, the soundtracks are phenomenal. There is actually a lore behind the game
This and Project Zomboid demonstrated that the threat of zombies has never been that individually they are such a mighty threat. Rather, it's the neverending horde that slowly, but surely, is coming for you. You can slow it down, but it'll never stop.
left 4 dead 2 is fun. no more room in hell is depressing, disturbing and realistic. though it just hooks you back in like crack cocaine, and its fucking free!!!
The fact that people complained about zombie children here, yet games like deadspace are praised for their harrowing portrayal of things like infected babies and how taht adds to the horror of the situation.
Regarding NMRiH2 on the last part of the video. The original features WERE planned, built and ready for the build before TB bought the game. Why they got rid of them? Well, because they are turning this game into a more casual approach overall. I really like the first game and have been playing since the 1.0 beta release, but the stuff we got from TB is as you said, sad and most importantly, dissapointing.
Another late 2000s Half Life 2 mod you might like to look at is "Zombie Master". It's a multiplayer ZMaster vs Team- 1st person shooter / 3rd person RTS-ish objective game. The survivors had to manage resources, hold ground, collect key items, and escape. All while the ZMaster- with a regenerating avaliable supply- buys and controls packs of zombies, sets traps, cuts off survivor routes/ demands a sacrifice for others to progress, and tries to kill the survivors asap. Anyway, I can't speak for its sequel- but if you cant tell, I really liked the first game.
All pistols can 1 shot on normal difficulty if you wait for the aim buff (yellow overlay). Also, there are objective markers/arrow if you use the compass.
I do! It was okay, but not quite as well-designed. And I detested the whole "die and become a zombie for PvP" thing. Felt it ruined the co-op a lot of the time.
Just to clarify some things, 11:40 - There is a way to vaguely find out where to go/what to grab. Hold "C" (or was it "X") to pull up a compass UI at the top/bottom of the screen. There will be white or red dots on the compass bar that you can face towards to get a general idea of the objective 15:55 - The game was surprisngly close to EA release before they banded with Tornbanner in Oct 2022 and had to be scrapped for the UE5 train. If curious, there is an upload of a dev stream from Feb 2021; Search for this game's "Old Gameplay Footage" uploaded a month ago. On that note, NMRiH is one of my top zombie games. Shame how things turned out for NMRiH 2
I do have a fond memory from this game and not to self promote but that’s where I met one of my TH-cam friends that I would collaborate with. Because of this game I made a great friendship with another group of creators. Unfortunately I haven’t heard from them in a few years and I can’t find they’re channel anymore.
I may be repeating this but if you get lost in objective mode, you can always press C to see your objectives, it also shows a narrow compass showing where to go and where certain needed objects are
at minute 11:50 you can actually press c to open up the compass. by bringing up the compass you can see your teammates and the objectives also at 14:00 there actually is a story its just in the newspapers. you can watch a lore video on it by baily crew.
I just realized that you could summarize the gameplay of both games as L4D being about people who are immune to the disease (as the characters canonically are), while NMRiH is about those who aren't! Hmm... It is quite sad how NMRiH 2 ended up. I had already forgotten that they made a sequel. Doesn't help that all the new stuff in UE5 has a bad habit of destroying performance, which probably meant all the dedicated fans of NMRiH 1 couldn't even play it!
12:40 ive never understood why zombie games almost never have child zombies in them. aside from the obvious "killing kids is bad" it just seems to kinda take away from the immersion yk. like kids make up a pretty significant amount of the population too and the games that do show children among the infected have that extra layer of horror and tragedy that is sadly often lacking in most zombie games. im not saying every zombie game has to be a horror driven depression simulator, but yk nothing gets your heart rate spiking like the fear of being eaten alive by kindergarteners.
A little clarification, Turtle Rock Studio (aka Valve South) left Valve, they kept their right to create Left 4 Dead 2. Still, I love NMRIH, I got to play it back in 2013, good game as usual, too bad there are not many south american players so far. Thank you for this video.
I have spent a lot of hours playing the first game, years ago, and I do occasionally come back to it, and play few objective maps especially Broadway, Chinatown, and Brooklyn. One thing, that was so great about nmrih, is the atmosphere of each maps, and the best examples are the ones I mentioned above because personally those maps really terrified me the most. There are some objectives which I do get lost as well, so you're not alone with this one, but it's small areas you explore in these maps, can unnerve you at times. Since no matter where you go, or how many zombies you kill with your infinite ammo pistol, you will still hear them. These maps are also occur at night, it adds up the scare factor when you explore an apartment floor and most of it's light is not working and you hear the shambles walking around. It's definitely a mix of intense moments, and really slow yet unnerving exploration of each map. I am really glad, I start to see content creators making videos about this game, and probably it's because of the sequel, but yeah this game really deserves the spotlight and more players to experience this game.
13:52 National Guard can drop 9mm and 5.56 ammo when killed or a Beretta 92FS 17:55 I thought they said they WEREN'T adding children zombies at all? I'll wait for the December update and see how it is
good on ya for actually pointing out the miserable situations the Devs were put in for the sequel. I honestly feel for them because I am more than certain they wanted to ship the game out in a better state than what they were able to. Especially when it comes to translating the game to a new engine. People seem to forget how much of a nightmare the Unreal Engine can be to work with sometimes ^ ^;;
That game was pretty fun honestly, you have to complete objectives while working together with endless zombies and if you die you become one of the zombies and try to hinder the players
11:27 For the Medkit, it doesn’t actually restore all of your health, but a decent portion of it. If you’re in a multiplayer lobby and spectating you can see how much it heals just enough to go from critical (black and white screen) up to seeing color again
I wish more games took to the more dark sides of apocalypse settings. Children zombies should be common since its a pretty untouched subject in video games. It adds alot of storytelling and ambiance to the seriousness and hopelessness you should feel when faced against a zombie apocalypse.
I saw the thumbnail and my first thought was “Why is he talking about postal Redux? It’s neither a zombie game or on the Source engine.” But after clicking on the video it makes so much more sense. Looked it up on Steam and saw there was a sequal released in early access in October 2024.
I remember one of the early teasers having a zombie pug, I can't seem to find it now. Unless it was for Contagion, another zombie mod but I'm pretty sure it was NMRiH
I got this game for free back in 2013-14ish and was shocked there wasnt that many players? and I wish I had more friends to play it with. hopefully I can convince them to get the sequel
I hope the sequel improves before that happens, got a long way to go but my review stays away until they try to push a 'finished product' in their eyes
@farbott8137 I had posted the comment before i got to the part about the sequel😂 I have faith! As long as its not a payday 3 type bad we should be okay!
@@farbott8137 Nope, they're moving away from the gameplay formula. The original gameplay mechanics were already ported over to the earlier version of the game, but the new studio decided to can them.
I was very excited for nmrih 2 and waited for it to drop to see reviews on it first and I'm glad I did cause I agree I think it needs to cook for a while longer, only bad thing I could see was server issues tho while combing thru the reviews
I have two problems with the kid zombies, first they can only spawn as runners meaning their hit box lags behind them while sprinting making them borderline impossible to kill without a shotgun or automatic weapon, they really need to fix runners janky hit box. Second not only are they buggy smaller targets but they attack as fast as runners while dealing the same damage making them ironically more deadly, at the very least they should deal half damage.
Look at all the free elder scrolls and fallout mods obviously if someone has a passion and they're going to be playing the game there's going to be free content the quality is the only thing that's debatable as far as I've been saying it's my hot take on it
Have so many fond memories of the first game. Played it before it went standalone and when the standalone did drop, it made it easier to get friends into it. The police station map was pure hell at times and the infection mechanic I think was the big thing that sold me on the game in the first place. Reminded me of the Resident Evil Outbreak games in some ways. I have been sitting on the second now since it has dropped and hoping they get it back in the oven long enough to cook thoroughly and give us the proper sequel it deserves.
8:48 also, there is a hidden mechanic in melee system: the longer you charge ur melee - the more damage it will deal, so like if you hold little wrench or hammer for 5+ seconds - it will 1 shot zombie in the head.
Glad to see NMRIH getting some recognition, it’s easily one of the best zombie games just because you’re not some coked-up adrenaline-pumping muscle man, you’re just a regular person and that’s what makes it so enticing and it just adds a layer of horror and tension to each encounter since you have to manage balancing your stamina while making sure that you aren’t completely drained of it. The music is top-notch for being composed by two people and it adds another layer of horror and tension by playing the right track in certain situations. When you get to the final stages before getting to the evac point, the music is grand and theatrical, the best examples of this is “Cleopas Evac” and “To Freedom”. Cleopas Evac is bleak and depressing, it’s like you’re watching the whole world crumble and turned to chaos as herds of the dead now walk the planet, and watching that giant piller of smoke and ash rise up under the red sky just helps reinforce that this is no longer the world you knew. And constrast to Cleopas Evac, To Freedom is hopeful, and it hypes you up and makes you feel like a badass. When it plays, it feels deserved. It gives you the motivation to complete the final objective and refills hope in you. Sorry for the incredibly lengthy comment, Im happy that NMRIH is getting more attention since it’s the game that got me to make a stream account and was the first game I’ve downloaded after making one. If you did read this, thank you ❤
The first NMRIH was a good game I played a lot of it, before I got my hands on Left for Dead 2. Sucks that the NMRIH 2 was so misshandled - what disapoints me is how... more game-like it became, mainly on the survivor perks side. OG NMRIH was a game where all started at the same foot and had to scavange the limited weapons to differentiate their roles while fighting slowly and brutaly through melasis of zombies, seeing the perk that makes a certain gun overpowered for gamey reasons feels off for the setting. It feels like NMRIH 2 wasn't just undercooked, but the devs are attempting to add unfitting parts. I hope things will get ironed out, but so far I am more on the side of the disapointed and dissillusioned
I mean yeah, in a zombie apocalypse you are going to see zombie children or worse things in hospitals in the pediatric areas, it is an interesting thing to explore morally.
everyone remembers left 4 dead, but no one remembers the game that inspired it in the first place, which was zombie panic 1.3. the only real major difference was that the ai director had to be played by an actual person. well, that and the storytelling was a lot more rudimentary. still to this day ive seen no one make light of its inspiring one of the greatest series of zombie shooters to ever exist. its almost like how people dont remember the infiltration mod for unreal tournament, which literally created the tactical shooter/milsim genre as we know it today. it was literally red orchestra before red orchestra, but set in a modern era.
I recently saw NRiH2 on steam and it immediately piqued my interest. this video has given me my final opinion, and that is I shall wait for it to be completely baked. but now i know the first game is great too, so ill definitely check it out. I have such a deep passion for the zombie genre, and i don't think there are enough good zombie game titles. I was born around the time L4D came out and I just cant get enough of it, but finding more great zombie games, like this one, is always so nice.
Bit of a correction, there are (kinda) marks in the first game. You have to use the compass keybind and look at the bottom, which shows the direction in which the other players and the objective are located at
Whoops Romero zombies MISINPUT😭
If I can just - blow out a detail I think I caught, Phalanx, the drug that slows the zombie virus, it probably a reference to World War Z - the book by Max Brooks not the Brad Pitt movie. In the book the zombies are very Romero-like. The story is told as an in-universe collection of memoirs from different survivors of the Zombie War. One of those being a pharmaceutical corporation CEO that markets a "Rabies vaccine" called - Phalanx. Which people take under the assumption that the company sold them, that it will keep them safe from the outbreak. Its actually a decently important part of the in-universe lore and series of events that led to an almost outright Zombie Apocalypse. As someone who loves World War Z as one of those super in the weeds takes of a dead walk the Earth story, hearing the drug was called Phalanx perked my ears.
Assuming that the Phalanx in NMRiH was added after or during 2006, the year the book released, I'm pretty sure it's a reference.
Also just to keep rambling. The name of the game is more then likely (some dev interview may of confirmed it) a reference to a line from Romero's "Dawn of the Dead" from 1978. Where a character, looking over a mob of zombies trying to get in. Says "When There's No More Room In Hell, The Dead Will Walk The Earth."
Anyway nice video Orbit! Really fair look at both projects which I appreciate. Keep it up!
do you have a discord server btw? i might just be stupid and im not seeing it ngl
@CrusadingSnom I do but it’s Patreon members only now😔
😁
"I don't like the Walking Dead, it's like a soap opera with zombies"
G.A. Romero ❤❤
Good video, loving NMRIH
love how people were complaining about children zombies here but its 100% okay for minecraft to do it
Minecraft is worse because there not just children but baby zombies.
I mean yeah, minecraft has a more kid freindly style than nmrih, so of course no would complain a baby zombie in minecraft. Even more that "baby" zombie is just a small normal zombie with a big head
@@itsidonko9009 said as a joke
It’s a funny observation but Zombies in Minecraft are more like their own creatures, while in NMRiH the implication is that children were savagely overcame by Zombies, which is really disturbing to think about, and that’s the point. If you were in a zombie apocalypse you would likely be shocked at the sight of a walking child corpse . That’s horrific! Probably leaving it enough time to gnaw your face off. People complaining that it was disturbing didn’t complain about being able to eat your gun, so who cares what they say
@@itsidonko9009 Now that I think about it, a zombie with dwarfism could be viewed as more acceptable!
Rock and Stone!
If i remember correctly, the zombies are based off of George Romero movies, as for the story, there is a little bit of a background on how the virus started and what it is, but the game is more like a collection of different stories from different survivors. On every map, on the loading screen, you can see a background of a map and usually a note or a sign where a backstory of a map is written.
Also many of the zombies are modeled after/Romero Zombies like bud, Flyboy, Tom Savini and the jawless poster zombie from day of the dead. Many of the maps are also inspired from the movies or just straight up almost 1:1 recreation like the bunker/mine from day of the dead.
Seems a lot more based off of WWZ.
@@matthewjones39 this! While Romero is there, sometimes you can hear the radio in Survival maps that use terms from WWZ!
Yep. There's that farm map.
Original no more room in hell has allot more WWZ DNA , the redeker zones and phalanx pills come to mind
Torn Banner laid off every developer of NMriH 2 in a company restructuring the same day this video came out
No fucking way, where can I see this?
😮
Torn banner should focus on medieval slasher instead of other genre. They clearly have no idea how to make anything else.
*O O F*
@@SDRlegacyThat ship has sailed after how they ended Chiv2 by managing to get their best and most active content creator killed.
Bro the thumbnail looks horrific.
Terrific even.
Reminds me of Postal 1 a bit
Was just about to say that! @@raythefox5594
The NMRIH loading screen images aren't too far away either
Looks like mike
Yeah the games art has a lot of gore and I’m guessing that’s where the thumbnail comes from, just zoomed in
->Walking Dead Style Zombies
ROMERO ZOMBIES..... RO. ME. RO. ZAAAMBIES.
Fr, the disrespect is insane
They’re not vampires, Francis- They’re zombies!
People forget max brooks
@@SluggLuverOk Professor monster
The whole game is working on the idea of zombies as imagined by George A Romeo, as the title of the game is referring to the tagline for the poster of the 1978 movie Dawn of the Dead "When there is no more room in Hell, the Dead will walk the Earth."
Fun fact as to how Romeo's Zombies had a role in making the Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman said the Night of the Living Dead Movie was never made, which means the concept of Zombies in the Walking Dead, as in our Pop Culture, do not exist.
If you stand still and aim for 3 seconds, you'll enter "focus mode" where you can kill zombies in one headshot regardless of what gun you use. Also, melee charge damage and stamina usage is dependent on how long you charge the weapon - too long and you'll exhaust yourself, too short and you'll gain negligible damage increase.
This game is a hidden gem. It's so realistic, grim, and depressing. The artwork is amazing, the soundtracks are phenomenal.
There is actually a lore behind the game
Off topic, but that thumbnail reminds me a lot of that one Postal loading screen.
Same
It reminds me of resident evil 1 from the ds
To me, it remind me of one of the generic Yakuza Dead Souls bosses
Bro sameee
@@fawfulbenivictor5556FAWFUL?!
This and Project Zomboid demonstrated that the threat of zombies has never been that individually they are such a mighty threat. Rather, it's the neverending horde that slowly, but surely, is coming for you. You can slow it down, but it'll never stop.
Real OGs remember the Counter Strike zombie servers XD and later, Zombie Panic
PS, Wally is also a movie reference, he's Walter from The Big Lebowski
Man still sad zombie panic dying
left 4 dead 2 is fun.
no more room in hell is depressing, disturbing and realistic. though it just hooks you back in like crack cocaine, and its fucking free!!!
when you said the other source engine zombie game, I was thinking about Codename Cure
same lol
And it still has an active modding community
The fact that people complained about zombie children here, yet games like deadspace are praised for their harrowing portrayal of things like infected babies and how taht adds to the horror of the situation.
Regarding NMRiH2 on the last part of the video.
The original features WERE planned, built and ready for the build before TB bought the game.
Why they got rid of them? Well, because they are turning this game into a more casual approach overall. I really like the first game and have been playing since the 1.0 beta release, but the stuff we got from TB is as you said, sad and most importantly, dissapointing.
Also everything from the UE4 build was discarded, the UE5 build so the game torn banner launched was in development for ONLY 1 YEAR
Small knowledge here, our players have 100 hp, the medkit only heal 30 hp, and considering how rare these things are, just don't get hit ever.
start the game, get hit once by a running baby, get infected and die a minute later, repeat 300 times
peak gaming
You can press c by default and open your compass with objective markers showing where to go and what items you need to progress in the first Nmrih1.
Another late 2000s Half Life 2 mod you might like to look at is "Zombie Master". It's a multiplayer ZMaster vs Team- 1st person shooter / 3rd person RTS-ish objective game. The survivors had to manage resources, hold ground, collect key items, and escape. All while the ZMaster- with a regenerating avaliable supply- buys and controls packs of zombies, sets traps, cuts off survivor routes/ demands a sacrifice for others to progress, and tries to kill the survivors asap. Anyway, I can't speak for its sequel- but if you cant tell, I really liked the first game.
All pistols can 1 shot on normal difficulty if you wait for the aim buff (yellow overlay). Also, there are objective markers/arrow if you use the compass.
so that is what the compass is for, never knew that, I would always discard the compass
@@Zeni4825 in NMRiH 1 compass was a hotkey, not an item
Omg someone else remembers Contagion??? Oh... nevermind. It's never been clearer no one else remembers Contagion 😢
I do! It was okay, but not quite as well-designed. And I detested the whole "die and become a zombie for PvP" thing. Felt it ruined the co-op a lot of the time.
@Kektus1 nooo that's what I loved though lol. Calling the horde and waiting at extraction
I still play Contagion every now and again. Not the best game but I really like it :)
Contagion's original main menu OST will always be my favorite
I do! Clicked on this video expecting Contagion
4:24 Say that again
*5:13** Doesn't matter dude. Sometimes Vanilla Version always better place.*
13:23 damn, I actually give respect and appreciation that the Devs didn’t back down in this. And I 100% agree with them.
I love how your channel changed from Pyro in space to rabbit in space
Today has been awful, this video feels like a hot chocolate on a stormy night, thank you Orbit. ❤
@@B-zk9bt hope your day gets better!
Hope your day gets better as well, my pc shit the bed on me and this video is how I found Orbit, you lose some and win some I guess.
i hope the devs wont give up on the sequel theres so much potential behind it once the game is complete
notices bateman but not wally being walter from the big lebowski
friggin zoomers man
Just to clarify some things,
11:40 - There is a way to vaguely find out where to go/what to grab. Hold "C" (or was it "X") to pull up a compass UI at the top/bottom of the screen. There will be white or red dots on the compass bar that you can face towards to get a general idea of the objective
15:55 - The game was surprisngly close to EA release before they banded with Tornbanner in Oct 2022 and had to be scrapped for the UE5 train. If curious, there is an upload of a dev stream from Feb 2021; Search for this game's "Old Gameplay Footage" uploaded a month ago.
On that note, NMRiH is one of my top zombie games. Shame how things turned out for NMRiH 2
Honestly, I love this video, I'd love to see you cover The Other Other Source Engine Zombie Game (Zombie Panic! Zombie Panic! Source and Contagion.)
Sadly those game kidda dying 😢
@@LilGreenBeanPyro Mhmm the interest is there. The old Killing Floor communities are very much alive.
NMRIH has such a special place in my heart, lots of fun playing that years back.
Game is still being updated. It's fun with friends really and also there are mods u can download to make it better Vanilla + type of mods.
I do have a fond memory from this game and not to self promote but that’s where I met one of my TH-cam friends that I would collaborate with. Because of this game I made a great friendship with another group of creators.
Unfortunately I haven’t heard from them in a few years and I can’t find they’re channel anymore.
Good vid man. I love Killing Floor and L4D so it's cool to see another og zombie game's history
what was the sound that played at 0:11
Idk bro, I can't hear it
the music?
Pretty sure it's from "cry of fear"
This has to be the best Zombie first person experience and also the community is very friendly and loyal.
I may be repeating this but if you get lost in objective mode, you can always press C to see your objectives, it also shows a narrow compass showing where to go and where certain needed objects are
at minute 11:50 you can actually press c to open up the compass. by bringing up the compass you can see your teammates and the objectives also at 14:00 there actually is a story its just in the newspapers. you can watch a lore video on it by baily crew.
I just realized that you could summarize the gameplay of both games as L4D being about people who are immune to the disease (as the characters canonically are), while NMRiH is about those who aren't!
Hmm... It is quite sad how NMRiH 2 ended up. I had already forgotten that they made a sequel. Doesn't help that all the new stuff in UE5 has a bad habit of destroying performance, which probably meant all the dedicated fans of NMRiH 1 couldn't even play it!
12:40 ive never understood why zombie games almost never have child zombies in them. aside from the obvious "killing kids is bad" it just seems to kinda take away from the immersion yk. like kids make up a pretty significant amount of the population too and the games that do show children among the infected have that extra layer of horror and tragedy that is sadly often lacking in most zombie games. im not saying every zombie game has to be a horror driven depression simulator, but yk nothing gets your heart rate spiking like the fear of being eaten alive by kindergarteners.
A little clarification, Turtle Rock Studio (aka Valve South) left Valve, they kept their right to create Left 4 Dead 2.
Still, I love NMRIH, I got to play it back in 2013, good game as usual, too bad there are not many south american players so far.
Thank you for this video.
I have spent a lot of hours playing the first game, years ago, and I do occasionally come back to it, and play few objective maps especially Broadway, Chinatown, and Brooklyn.
One thing, that was so great about nmrih, is the atmosphere of each maps, and the best examples are the ones I mentioned above because personally those maps really terrified me the most.
There are some objectives which I do get lost as well, so you're not alone with this one, but it's small areas you explore in these maps, can unnerve you at times.
Since no matter where you go, or how many zombies you kill with your infinite ammo pistol, you will still hear them.
These maps are also occur at night, it adds up the scare factor when you explore an apartment floor and most of it's light is not working and you hear the shambles walking around.
It's definitely a mix of intense moments, and really slow yet unnerving exploration of each map.
I am really glad, I start to see content creators making videos about this game, and probably it's because of the sequel, but yeah this game really deserves the spotlight and more players to experience this game.
Very good research on this, there was some stuff even I didn't know.
With how little you are able to hold, this game is a Loot Goblin's worst nightmare.
6:02 did you just call him old?! You’re entering a world of pain!
13:52 National Guard can drop 9mm and 5.56 ammo when killed or a Beretta 92FS
17:55 I thought they said they WEREN'T adding children zombies at all?
I'll wait for the December update and see how it is
National Guard can also drop grenade when killed
good on ya for actually pointing out the miserable situations the Devs were put in for the sequel. I honestly feel for them because I am more than certain they wanted to ship the game out in a better state than what they were able to. Especially when it comes to translating the game to a new engine. People seem to forget how much of a nightmare the Unreal Engine can be to work with sometimes ^ ^;;
A fun random mechanic they could add is if you smash a zombie’s skull open you can use a taser in the brain and it permanently stuns or kills them
That game was pretty fun honestly, you have to complete objectives while working together with endless zombies and if you die you become one of the zombies and try to hinder the players
11:27 For the Medkit, it doesn’t actually restore all of your health, but a decent portion of it. If you’re in a multiplayer lobby and spectating you can see how much it heals just enough to go from critical (black and white screen) up to seeing color again
I wish more games took to the more dark sides of apocalypse settings. Children zombies should be common since its a pretty untouched subject in video games.
It adds alot of storytelling and ambiance to the seriousness and hopelessness you should feel when faced against a zombie apocalypse.
I saw the thumbnail and my first thought was “Why is he talking about postal Redux? It’s neither a zombie game or on the Source engine.” But after clicking on the video it makes so much more sense. Looked it up on Steam and saw there was a sequal released in early access in October 2024.
good to see more people glazing one of the greatest free Steam games ever made
0:04 no silly its 2024, catch up
Wow, that disclaimer didn't age too well, they ultimately got rid of zombie kids in NMRIH2
FINALLY SOMEONE NOTICED NO MORE ROOM IN HELL :DDD when i first saw the title im actually hoping for this game to come up
don't forget about CONTAGION
I remember one of the early teasers having a zombie pug, I can't seem to find it now. Unless it was for Contagion, another zombie mod but I'm pretty sure it was NMRiH
The sequel completely compromises the soul of the original by pursuing an extraction shooter design
I don't see how that label doesn't apply to the original. It's not a term I've heard before, though. Care to elaborate?
I got this game for free back in 2013-14ish and was shocked there wasnt that many players? and I wish I had more friends to play it with. hopefully I can convince them to get the sequel
I hope the sequel improves before that happens, got a long way to go but my review stays away until they try to push a 'finished product' in their eyes
@farbott8137 I had posted the comment before i got to the part about the sequel😂 I have faith! As long as its not a payday 3 type bad we should be okay!
@@farbott8137 Nope, they're moving away from the gameplay formula. The original gameplay mechanics were already ported over to the earlier version of the game, but the new studio decided to can them.
I was very excited for nmrih 2 and waited for it to drop to see reviews on it first and I'm glad I did cause I agree I think it needs to cook for a while longer, only bad thing I could see was server issues tho while combing thru the reviews
I have two problems with the kid zombies, first they can only spawn as runners meaning their hit box lags behind them while sprinting making them borderline impossible to kill without a shotgun or automatic weapon, they really need to fix runners janky hit box. Second not only are they buggy smaller targets but they attack as fast as runners while dealing the same damage making them ironically more deadly, at the very least they should deal half damage.
yo you talked about No more Room, I played it back in the day
5:22 ~ *_I will now get you wrong._*
6:57 ~ Another game has 1,328 achievements. Not even close.
FINALLY SOMEONE TALKS ABOUT THE GREATNESS OF THIS GAME
That sound when scrolling through the main menu almost sounds exactly like the one heard when scrolling in the Postal 2 Menu
NMRiH was actually so much fun man
what about the other, other zombie game, Codename Cure?
I hoped so badly to hear the intro of Zombie Panic Source for this video.
And to of seen literally anything about that game.
Payday has John Wick. Why can't No More Room in Hell have Patrick Bateman?
I remember the devs of this game being weirdly particular about hating the AK specifically.
Look at all the free elder scrolls and fallout mods obviously if someone has a passion and they're going to be playing the game there's going to be free content the quality is the only thing that's debatable as far as I've been saying it's my hot take on it
We have the same keyboard - good video as well!!
Have so many fond memories of the first game. Played it before it went standalone and when the standalone did drop, it made it easier to get friends into it. The police station map was pure hell at times and the infection mechanic I think was the big thing that sold me on the game in the first place. Reminded me of the Resident Evil Outbreak games in some ways.
I have been sitting on the second now since it has dropped and hoping they get it back in the oven long enough to cook thoroughly and give us the proper sequel it deserves.
8:48 also, there is a hidden mechanic in melee system: the longer you charge ur melee - the more damage it will deal, so like if you hold little wrench or hammer for 5+ seconds - it will 1 shot zombie in the head.
Glad to see NMRIH getting some recognition, it’s easily one of the best zombie games just because you’re not some coked-up adrenaline-pumping muscle man, you’re just a regular person and that’s what makes it so enticing and it just adds a layer of horror and tension to each encounter since you have to manage balancing your stamina while making sure that you aren’t completely drained of it.
The music is top-notch for being composed by two people and it adds another layer of horror and tension by playing the right track in certain situations. When you get to the final stages before getting to the evac point, the music is grand and theatrical, the best examples of this is “Cleopas Evac” and “To Freedom”.
Cleopas Evac is bleak and depressing, it’s like you’re watching the whole world crumble and turned to chaos as herds of the dead now walk the planet, and watching that giant piller of smoke and ash rise up under the red sky just helps reinforce that this is no longer the world you knew.
And constrast to Cleopas Evac, To Freedom is hopeful, and it hypes you up and makes you feel like a badass. When it plays, it feels deserved. It gives you the motivation to complete the final objective and refills hope in you.
Sorry for the incredibly lengthy comment, Im happy that NMRIH is getting more attention since it’s the game that got me to make a stream account and was the first game I’ve downloaded after making one. If you did read this, thank you ❤
The first NMRIH was a good game
I played a lot of it, before I got my hands on Left for Dead 2.
Sucks that the NMRIH 2 was so misshandled - what disapoints me is how... more game-like it became, mainly on the survivor perks side. OG NMRIH was a game where all started at the same foot and had to scavange the limited weapons to differentiate their roles while fighting slowly and brutaly through melasis of zombies, seeing the perk that makes a certain gun overpowered for gamey reasons feels off for the setting.
It feels like NMRIH 2 wasn't just undercooked, but the devs are attempting to add unfitting parts. I hope things will get ironed out, but so far I am more on the side of the disapointed and dissillusioned
i love this game. thank you for talking about it
4:55 there was a missed opportunity for a left for dead pun
very good video, i wasn't aware of this game at all. also your thumbnail game is amazing.
5:52 thats me those are my favourites
Take a shot whenever he says “and”
No more room in hell is very well known
they are working on a second game already
don't forget zombie panic source - basically CSS zombie mod
0:43 name of the song here pls
Don't - Bryson tiller
@@stee5157 thanks
@@cuentasecundaria2321 you're welcome
you had me right up until you said "Game ended himself"
You realize saying the actual word would cause him go lose his monetization, right?
I mean yeah, in a zombie apocalypse you are going to see zombie children or worse things in hospitals in the pediatric areas, it is an interesting thing to explore morally.
Jason Bateman is indeed a different person
Great video and also if you hold c a compass will pop up that tells you your objective and where items are which are represented by colored dots.
The thumbnail looks like the average postal 1 loading screen
Blessssss, thanks for the guide.
That Thumbnail is absolute fire, bro! You made it?
11:52 there's a compass in the game, I think the keybind is X; it shows you where the objectives are.
keybind is c
everyone remembers left 4 dead, but no one remembers the game that inspired it in the first place, which was zombie panic 1.3. the only real major difference was that the ai director had to be played by an actual person. well, that and the storytelling was a lot more rudimentary. still to this day ive seen no one make light of its inspiring one of the greatest series of zombie shooters to ever exist. its almost like how people dont remember the infiltration mod for unreal tournament, which literally created the tactical shooter/milsim genre as we know it today. it was literally red orchestra before red orchestra, but set in a modern era.
I recently saw NRiH2 on steam and it immediately piqued my interest. this video has given me my final opinion, and that is I shall wait for it to be completely baked. but now i know the first game is great too, so ill definitely check it out. I have such a deep passion for the zombie genre, and i don't think there are enough good zombie game titles. I was born around the time L4D came out and I just cant get enough of it, but finding more great zombie games, like this one, is always so nice.
I still think that name fits so well as a zombie game where the worst as happen
thank you Peruvians for keeping l4d2 alive
Bit of a correction, there are (kinda) marks in the first game. You have to use the compass keybind and look at the bottom, which shows the direction in which the other players and the objective are located at
I cannot wait to try this game