The computer also doesn't play by the same machete rules you do. This is plainly obvious when you find an empty gun on a survivor you just killed, even though that same survivor is perfectly capable of shooting you with his supposedly empty gun if you don't kill him immediately. The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: The computer never runs out of ammo, and in fact does not even need ammo.This may seem pretty dirty, but it's a dirty world, and if you let your guard down, these bastards will kill you.

If at all possible, intimidate them into backing up into a cliff or a fire that you can kick them off of/into. Use surprise to kill the first of the enemies in a group, identify any other gun-wielders and shoot them immediately, and use psychological pressure to get the rest of them to fold (usually by killing the 'leader' of a group).

Combat Pragmatist: In the 'Encounters' trailer, the main character strongly advises taking this stance on violent altercations.

Button Mashing: Blade Locks, breaking open locked gates, lifting shutters, and forcing extra effort out of your character (whether running or continuing to exert past the stamina limit) all involve pressing the action button as fast as possible.

There is no dedicated 'melee attack' button, too, so this is the only way to kill someone at close range when they're alerted to your presence.

Blade Lock: 'Struggle' kills with the machete act as this.

Furthermore, the woman who started watching the recordings at the start of the game is hinted to be your wife, and it's pretty heavily implied that you're dead by the time she watches them.

Bittersweet Ending: You get Mei and Linda to safety, but Henry is missing in action and you refuse to board the boat with them, hoping to save him and find your family.

Attempted Rape: One of the survivor encounters in the Hotel involves shooting the perpetrator through a curtain.

The shotgun, whoever, will put down even armored enemies no matter where you shoot them, presumably from the sheer force of the blast.

Attack Its Weak Point: Armored enemies can only be killed instantly by a headshot, and the final boss is only vulnerable in his legs.

Body armor can take a few bullets or arrows, and helmets protect from headshots.

Apocalyptic Log: The main character creates one over the course of the game, and is implied to have been creating one from before the game.

Either way its a rare great game and a sequel would be awesome as it was definitely left open for one. Thats about 500,000 in sales not even counting sales for playstation 3 as I couldn't find any info for the playstation network. Here on Steam it has done well with 214,615 units sold. It had 245,000 units sold in 2012 for xbox live arcade: It was top ten for weeks and number one early on. Sales were surprisingly very good on xbox live for an arcade game. A rare all around great game that was a very nice change in the gaming industry. The way you can hold people up and kick them off a cliff! That's just great! Just having to survive too was a challenge with gathering supplies. It was almost like assassins creed with climbing buildings, which was fun. It had a nice gritty look to it but that was on purpose because of the fog and how dirty everything was. Poor reviews just because of controls and graphics? Controls were totally fine and graphics were fine.

I don't understand how people didn't like it.

I am alive