Killing Floor 3 Reviews
Killing Floor 3 marks a familiar return to the franchise's wave-based cooperative FPS roots, delivering the chaotic, blood-soaked action fans expect in a new sci-fi setting.
While it mostly nails its signature vibes, Killing Floor 3 is mired by a confusing live service experience and crap performance
To justify buying the game now, you'd have to have supreme confidence in Tripwire (whose team has changed dramatically since KF2), and assume that they're treating this like an Early Access game, but realistically, it's better to wait and go play the other games in the meantime.
But when the experience tries to be a copy of everything but itself, and not one of its limbs seems designed to stand out and leave a lasting impression, does any of this matter?
For fans of the series, Killing Floor 3 is worth playing, especially with a dedicated squad. For newcomers, it offers a taste of frantic co-op mayhem, even if the flavour fades faster than it should. But for a game that arrives years after its predecessor, Killing Floor 3 lacks some much needed innovation.
Fun sequel in the horror FPS series
There's certainly fun to be had with Killing Floor 3. Killing waves of demons is as enjoyable as ever, but some of the changes here are unfortunate, and the new additions don't wholly make up for them. There's some work to be done by Tripwire to allow this game to fulfil its potential, then, and it's up to you if you want to jump in in the meantime.
Killing Floor 3 does everything you want right, but at the same time, it lacks some of the magic seen in the older games.
Killing Floor 3 is bloody and fun, but stuck in the past: a solid co-op shooter with old-school charm, yet lacking innovation and at risk of becoming repetitive without fresh content.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Killing Floor 3 is a good sequel, with interesting additions and the refinement of a formula that works as well as ever. However, it has little launch content and relies too heavily on its progression system.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Killing Floor 3 takes everything fans loved about the series and amplifies it with polish, chaos, and smarter enemies. Every match feels intense, every victory earned.
Killing Floor 3 is exactly what you're looking for if you want a multiplayer game to battle hordes of zombies and bizarre creatures.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Killing Floor 3 is the most ambitious chapter in Tripwire Interactive's horde shooter series. Its boldness is evident in its choice of a new aesthetic style and a class system that brings the title closer to hero shooters, while preserving the fundamental gameplay features that have made the series so successful. Bloody and adrenaline-fueled, the third invasion of the zeds nevertheless leaves itself open to some criticism due to a somewhat limited launch content offering and some choices that could alienate more traditional fans. With the encouraging promise of constant and lasting support, the developers could give the public an unmissable experience: let's keep our fingers crossed!
Review in Italian | Read full review
In attempting to modernise and streamline the formula, Killing Floor 3 delivers a decent but disappointing follow-up to a niche classic. The changes to Perks, weapon variety and introduction of the social hub do little to uplift the core mechanics, and even hinder the best of what Killing Floor 2 delivered. The music and MEAT system deliver the thrills alongside solid gunplay and wave-based survival, but this sequel struggles to build a menacing legacy that can stand alongside the previous iteration.
Killing Floor 3 still has rapid action and bloody chaos, but at the same time feels a lot of outbreak. Classes and weapons are limited, the hub is removing pace and newcomers have to figure out the Zeds themselves. The Gore is there, the humor is not and that makes it less playful than the previous parts.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
“Killing Floor 3” brings some notable improvements on the gameplay front, but the shift to a “Game as a Service” style game tones down difficulty, tactical opportunities and most of all, player expression. A price maybe too high to pay.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Old-school KF fans might find Killing Floor 3 undercooked and divisive, and new-school players might struggle to see what the fuss is all about. Killing Floor 3 is a fun, survival-horror shooter that shreds with its killer soundtrack and replayability.
Killing Floor 3 can be a great time under the right circumstances, but it lacks the content to really make it part of the conversation. Progression does have its moments, but eventually does start to feel like a grind as you slowly work down their skill tree and tinker around with the battlepass, which does feature some paid elements. Still, while Killing Floor 2 is the better game at the moment, Killing Floor 3 does still entertain for what it's trying to do.
Killing Floor 3 lacks content and polish, as well as losing some key features from previous entries - however, combat is fun and those bosses offer a worthy spectacle.
Killing Floor 3 doesn't live up to the standards of its predecessor, but rather offers a mediocre, basic shooter.
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