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DayZ Standalone is still in Alpha; but even as is it makes for a great gaming experience IMO plus it's pretty cheap at the moment... if you're in to the survivalist/zombies stuff. The bulk of the game-play (when not looting and preventing starvation) is more about interactions with other players. There are no quests or experience points so everyone is on level playing field. What makes this game most interesting is when you die you start completely over again.. so it really makes for good heart-pounding suspense when dealing with people.
A friend and I once sat pinned in a building for a half hour after getting shot at after a multi-hour looting session.. hearts pounding before we decided it was safe to make a run for it.

Eventually they will add vehicles, constructable bases, etc. There are also things to worry about like disease and blood types (for transfusions).

Some of the more amusing aspects of the game are things such as.. being held prisoner (with handcuffs) and being stripped and force-fed disinfectant for the amusement of your captors.

The map is absolutely humungous and is real to life scale. It's a good break from the standard auto-attack, rinse, repeat, turn-in-crap to an NPC..
Total sandbox.
After watching a few of the vids of people playing it I had to get it.



Edited, Apr 5th 2014 6:04pm by Kelvyquayo

When you log out, your avatar 'sleeps' in the world and anyone passing buy can kill and loot him. After 24 hours, wooden structures you built begin to decay unless you log in to open and close the doors. You can see the addictive nature of this; you just spent a week raising yourself from naked chump hunted for sport to owning a five room, two level fortress, clad in Kevlar armor and carrying an assault rifle with a laser scope and silencer and now you're going to lose it all because you took a weekend off?

For me it was less about raiding buildings than the structure rot requiring regular gameplay. It was like Farmville with the "you need to play or your crops will rot" thing. Besides, raiding for good or ill was about the only thing left to do once you got established. I might go back as it evolves further but the structure rot alone makes me loathe to spend any time building back up again.