The short version of this post is that if you followed the hype train then you'll probably be disappointing by how the game turned out but for me, I thought it looked a bit shit to begin with so I was actually pleasantly surprised. Nothing special but a fun little game that you could happily kill a few hours with.
The game itself is pretty simple. You join an online lobby with a bunch of people and everyone chooses a camp counselor and a Jason. Which characters are available is dependent on your level which seems a little bullshitty to me since each character does seem to be a little bit different but whatever, you get EXP pretty quickly. Once the game starts, one player is assigned to be the Jason and everyone else has to run away. The goal is to escape or survive until the end of the timer for the counselors and to murder everyone for Jason.
On each map there are a number of objectives which involve things like repairing a car or calling the police and doing this will help speed up your escape but the items required for this are placed randomly throughout the map so if you want to get it done, working with other players might be a good idea although I'm playing the game in a busy bar with no voice control so for me that's pretty much impossible. For Jason it's just a case of kill as many people as you can but you're a slow bulky piece of shit so you have a few powers to help you out like the ability to sense players or teleport around the map. Once everyone is dead or has escaped the game ends and you're given experience with which you unlock characters and perks and whatnot. Then you do it all again till the end of time.
I have two major problems with what limited time I've had with the game. The first being that Jason just isn't fun to play AT ALL. Maybe it's because I'm bad but he's super unwieldy and just sort of needlessly hard to use. It's hard to articulate but maybe if you try the game you'll know what I mean but generally the counselors are just a lot more fun to play. My other problem is that the game is buggy to fuck. The worst bug I saw was when another friend of mine was playing Jason and I don't quite know what happened but the HUD vanished and he was completely locked out of using his powers and couldn't smash doors and stuff properly. Eventually he got lucky an someone clocked him in the face with a frying pan and when he came out of the stun all his shit came back. One other minor annoyance is that if the player controlling Jason drops from the game then the game just instantly fucking ends. I get why but couldn't thay have maybe just let a bot Jason take over or something?
Either way, while Friday the 13th is nothing special it's at least a bit of mindless fun for a few hours. I imagine if you get a team of good counselors and a Jason that actually knows what he's doing it could be pretty intense but unfortunately every game I've played/witnessed up to now seems to be populated with dribbling children but that isn't exactly the games fault. Not something I'd pay full price for but put that shit on a Steam sale and I'll pick up my own copy eventually.
