DayZ Standalone First Impressions

Wade Westfall writes,

When the DayZ Mod for Arma II hit the scene a bit over a year ago, it really took off and Arma sales went through the roof. As soon as I hear about it, I had no choice but to give it a shot, and now the DayZ standalone alpha has been released, and it has quite a name to live up to. I haven't played it for an extensive amount of time (a few hours), but I've already gotten a pretty good idea of what to expect from it. I'll keep this one short, lets start with the good…