![]() ![]() The most Fallout 3 thing about Dead Island is it's inspired use of first-person. You'll find some repetitive Уgo fetchФ side quests, but it's far more rewarding to simply fast travel your way through the main quests, which are varied set pieces that take you through the island's most interesting locales. While Dead Island's Fallout 3 comparisons are not without merit, it's not nearly as fun to explore this island as it was that nuclear wasteland. Obsessive-compulsive loot hoarders, welcome to your nightmare. There are stacks of luggage all over the island. It's just bad design to have looting a suitcase take two presses of a button once to open the suitcase, then again to collect whatever you find. Who are you paying? The reliance on money forces you to loot nearly everything you see, which becomes incredibly tedious. You walk up to a work bench, give it money, and your weapons are repaired. It's a questionable design decision, since it's not at all integrated into the story. Your various clubs and knives degrade quickly, and repairing them is costly. In Dead Island, weapon durability is like ammunition. Follow that up with his curb stomp ability, and you've got a lethal combo. Work your way down Sam B's combat talents, and you'll gain the ability to tackle groups of zombies, knocking them to the floor. Instead, players become dominant through skills and equipment. In an interesting choice, zombie's level with you, so you never get much of an edge over them in sheer brute strength. The most basic is the Walker, a shambling, rotting corpse from УNight of the Living Dead.Ф Then there are the Infected sprinting, screaming PCP freaks a la У28 Days Later.Ф There are also special boss-like zombies: Thugs, Rams, Floaters, Butchers and Suiciders, each best approached with a different method. The game also does good work with the different types of zombies. Eventually you reach city hall, where the undead pound on the boarded-up windows. Your first safe house is a life guard station where the nearest zombies are up the road. ![]() While Dead Island has no control over it's tone, it does do a nice job of escalating things. Your character's cookie-cutter responses of, УA'ightФ and УcopaseticФ fail to reflect the increasingly dire situation. At one point you're barricaded in a church, where people ask you to put down their infected loved ones and find them life saving medication. Then you'll move a bit inland where things are getting desperate. Dead Island's first few chapters take place in an MTV-hellhole you'll likely enjoy seeing ripped apart. With a bunch of reality TV rejects for characters and energy drinks for health, you can almost smell the Axe body spray. There's an issue with auto-save that has publisher Deep Silver recommending that you stick to single player until they can fix it.ĭid that infamous trailer write a check that Dead Island couldn't cash? We knew it wouldn't be as emotionally engaging as a little girl's well-edited plummet to her doom, but the game's tone doesn't even resemble the trailer's. But what really matters is the class-based gameplay, which gets players working together in compelling ways.Ĭo-op zombie smashing is Dead Island's crown jewel, and the game is very good at finding you teammates, or matchmaking you into a game. In fact, it digs up some old ones and dusts them off. So Dead Island doesn't break any molds with its characterizations. Finally there's Xian Mai, a master of swordplay, a brilliant student, and other Chinese stereotypes. ![]() The gun master is Purna, your typical renegade cop who plays by her own rules. Then there's Logan, a spoiled ex-NFL star, he specializes in chucking things at the zombies. Sam B is the tank he's a one hit wonder rapper looking for his next big smash. Your trip to the island begins by picking one of four characters, each with unique abilities and stats that make them their own class of zombie slayer. Instead, it's an engrossing but enraging work in progress. ![]() An open-world zombie apocalypse set on a gaudy tourist island, it should be a no-brainer smash hit, pun very much intended. Dead Island is a brilliant concept that's met with shoddy execution. ![]()
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