![]() Things can get pretty hairy at points, so you’re bound to find yourself tearing through the environment as a group of walkers are in pursuit. Yet somehow Dead Island is entertaining.Ĭombat is a bit of a slugfest until you unlock more deadly slicey attacks or get hold of guns, but it’s somewhat thrilling to take on large groups with just a wrench and some knives. Missions, too, are rather simplistic most of the time, almost always being of the ‘Go to location X and bring back an item’ or ‘Go to location Y and do the thing’ variety. It’s good enough, but more character stat customisation would have been welcomed. Weapons can be upgraded using cash (which doesn’t make any sense at all) and your character boosted with skill points each time you level up. Have I gone mad?Īs a kind of action-heavy open-world RPG, Dead Island pushes action over massively in-depth skill trees. ![]() I’m not sure if the smattering of changes made to the original game, in the process of Techland porting it over to its latest engine, have made all the difference or the fact that I’ve watched the entirety of The Walking Dead in the last six months (and read about 40 issues of the comic), but honestly, this isn’t a bad video game. I didn’t understand how Dead Island wasn’t completely mauled by critics and gamers alike, watching in complete bemusement as it went on to sell millions of units and even get a Game of the Year edition.įive years later I’m playing Dead Island again, this time as part of the Dead Island Definitive Edition package (which includes the original, Riptide, and a new 2D beat ’em up), and I’m enjoying it. ![]() It felt so janky and looked so hideous it seemed on the edge of turning into a zombie itself. ![]() Not in a flippant, played it for five minutes and decided it wasn’t for me way (how we generally review video games), but a considered opinion after trudging through the first 90 minutes or so on Xbox 360. I thought the original Dead Island was awful. ![]()
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