Trailer
(Note: I tried to record gameplay and give my impressions while I played but for whatever reason, Shadowplay and the game didn't want to play nice and I got ~30 minutes of the title screen with sounds/voices playing in the background, so I'm writing my thoughts instead.)
Speaking of Left 4 Dead, as far as gameplay goes the game is simply a wave based horde mode game, where every round you're put up against increasing odds. As the title implies, your enemies are different forms of bacon, err, pigs. You're given numerous guns to use against them. If you're thinking the pigs don't put up a great fight, you'd be right, at least early on. I don't know exactly how many waves it takes for the challenge to pick up but I hardly felt challenged during the 10 waves I went through.
As such, the fact that it takes so long for the game to get going isn't a selling point when you consider other Horde games that pick up the challenge significantly earlier, such as Gears of War 2 and Left 4 Dead 2. The first 9 levels are tutorials, but honestly they could be consolidated to 5. Also, the multiplayer modes in Blood and Bacon are still in Alpha stage. In my time playing I tried to join numerous matches, only able to get one. And that one was a bust because apparently one of the players got dropped or AFK and wouldn't leave the barn to start the game.
Still, the game is only 99 cents, and lord knows you could do a lot worse for that price. However, even at that price the game has a very "Early Access" feel. Now I'm not saying that Early Access games are bad, but for a game like this, a game that is clearly not finished, it comes across as a little disingenuous to sell this as a complete game.
If you're still interested in this game, I'd strongly suggest waiting before trying it out. It's clearly not finished, and with the multiplayer being in the state that it is there's no reason to jump on at this point until it doesn't have "Alpha" thrown all over it anymore.
PURCHASE ADVICE: WAIT
