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How to explain this community game? It’s sort of real time strategy, with you laying trenches on hexes and sending enemies to defeat your opponent, or something. I was starting to get into it when the trial ran out but I’m definitely going to try it again and may buy it.

Played this for about two and a half hours last night, mostly Campaign. This seems to mean playing the last two levels of the Blood Harvest campaign. I’m not sure why nobody’s playing anything else, but whenever I jump into a Quick Match, it sends me into the fourth or fifth level of that campaign, virtually every time. Okay, once I joined a game that was on level three of Blood Harvest, but that soon turned into level four and then five. Er, obviously.

I also played a little bit of Versus mode, but that was pretty awful. While the players in Campaign are mostly fun to play with, Versus seems to attract idiots who like shooting teammates and running around being idiots.

I got a fair few Achievements last night, too. Haven’t got any for completing any campaigns yet, but I did get some fun ones.

Hunter Punter: Shove a Hunter off of a pinned and helpless Survivor. Got this on top of the train carriage just before the scary, scary cornfield. Sometimes, survivors seem to lose their collective courage and you end up hanging around in one place. The Director doesn’t like you doing this, though, which I guess is why, when we finally started moving, the player at the back of the pack got leapt on by a Hunter. I, as the Achievement says, ran back, shoved it off him and then, as the Achievement Unlocked box was popping up on the screen, pumping it full of lead.

Brain Salad: Make 100 headshot kills. Fairly obvious, this one. I think this popped up in the farmhouse. In games I usually end up with one of the lowest accuracy ratings for the team, but often have the biggest headshot percentage. I think this means I probably keep aiming too high.

Towering Inferno: Light a Tank with a Molotov. I had a Molotov. I saw a Tank. I threw the Molotov and set it on fire. Go me!

Tankbusters: Kill a Tank without it dealing any damage to a Survivor. This popped up at the end of Blood Harvest. We were in the farmhouse, the Tank was outside and couldn’t seem to decide how to get into the house. We peppered it from long range and then I assume it died – I’d gone off to deal with some normal zombies (sorry, Infected) before it died.

My Bodyguard: Protect any Survivor from an attacking Infected 50 times. I don’t have a clue when I got this. I think I must have missed it in the heat of battle. However, it was probably in the farmhouse, as that’s where I spent most of my evening.

No Smoking Section: Kill 10 Smokers as they are pulling helpless Survivors. Again, this popped up during some intense battle and I no longer remember the details. Quite satisfying, though.

Big Drag: Drag a Survivor 100 feet with your tongue. My only Versus Achievement so far. Didn’t do my team much good – as soon as I started dragging Bill someone else on his team shot me dead, but it was a nice, if brief, moment.

Have no really idea what I’m doing. It’s a rental copy, so no manual, and I’ve not bothered to look up any guides online. I’ve progressed a little further than button bashing, but not much further.

Instead I’ve just been having fun beating people up. In that sense, it’s a success, but it’s hard to tell if there’s any long-term fun to be had with this. It’s not going back to Lovefilm quite yet, though.