IGN was an 8.3 - I watched the review yesterday.
Still some of the same problems (NPCs getting in your way, for instance, but at least they're more independent than before), and that finding your way around the map can be a problem. I still hate that weapons break too easily by the looks of things, yeah, sure, they want to get you using various stuff, but at the same time when you've got a sweet-arse weapon you want to actually use it for a good time. I've always hated the quick-to-break weapons - it almost makes building new ones pointless as they'll be broken in a two minutes anyway.
Lots of zombies on-screen, but yeah, the tone does look confused. I've never been at all fussed by the stories in DR games - they never feel sincere, and the mixture of the open world lunacy with 'serious' storytelling never works properly, so it all comes off as silly. I've enjoyed DR 1 and 2, but I only played them as open world zombie slaughter fests, just running around killing zeds and ranking up. I was always shit at doing the missions and was never able to get very far at all in the story mode (and yet I always complete GTA games and the like).
It's funny when commentators are disappointed at the graphics - going into a next gen at first doesn't yield great results. It just adds a couple of new effects and that's it - look at Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter on Xbox360, one of the earliest titles (a launch title?) and it looks really plain. Compare that to, for instance, GTA V, and there's a massive difference ... therefore you're not going to see a big difference in DR3 beyond a few effects and some computing power (i.e. many more zombies on-screen).
Seeing the IGN review (getting to see the game in action), I didn't have any particular interest in playing the game.
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