When there's no more room in hell, the dead shall walk the earth. And when there's no more room in US East servers, the Americans shall walk with 160 millisecond ping. No More Room in Hell 2 is a zombie survival game now available in early access on Steam and the Epic Games Store .
Whereas the original Half-Life 2 mod and standalone game -- both released over a decade ago -- featured linear co-op maps seeking to emulate a more realistic, hardcore Left 4 Dead-style experience, the sequel is an objective-based extraction game that takes place across a wide, sprawling map. Players take on the role of Responders, a group of volunteers who risk their lives to accomplish tasks for the greater good of the surviving human population. Right now, there's only one map in the game, which means you'll have the same goal every match: get to the failing power station to put an end to the rolling brownouts threatening to destroy the remnants of civilization.
You'll join seven other players in the lobby before heading into the zombie-filled world alone trying to meet up with your teammates, arm yourselves with weapons, ammunition and bandages found in caches across the map and try to survive to turn the power back on. Players will converge at one point -- the power plant -- but they start the match scattered across the map. It's a novel idea that moves the series forward from the first game, which had players trying to escape from crowded population centers at the beginning of the outbreak.
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