oh my god do NOT buy this game
after some back and forth with SecuROM tech support, got a new executable from them that would actually load. here's what happened:
Try 1: Executable fails, demands I install a Vista hotfix related to graphics virtual memory paging
Try 2-5: Game loads, logos play, title screen, okay! Game crashes once I click "single-player." I spent a while trying to find video settings that would work.
Try 6: Success! I find the create a character screen and type in my character name, as it's at the top of the sheet and mouse focus starts there. Oops, I created a character.
Try 6.5: I back out, delete the accidental character, create a new one. My mouse sensitivity is totally fucked and about 50% of what it should be.
Try 7: Success! I am in the game! I am killing zombies! The chatty tutorial is annoying. It's hard to read item names on the ground cause they use weird font scaling. Hmm, I don't remember London streets being this...corridory. I got armor with some stats on it! Yay stats!
I port to the second area and the game crashes.
THE END.