Dead Island: Definitive Edition

GamingTrendSarah Marchant

70/100

Though the visuals sparkle and small improvements have been made, overall Dead Island Definitive Edition isn’t different enough from the original to be worth a purchase. In fact, it seems worse in some ways. Only give it a buy if the arena mode sounds appealing, or if you want to show off how powerful your new graphics card is.

Xbox AchievementsRichard Walker

70/100

Dead Island Definitive Collection is one of the better value remastered bundles currently available, serving up one genuinely good game, one relatively crap sequel, and a reasonably enjoyable bonus game in Retro Revenge. For the cash, you could certainly do a lot worse, and few other games do zombie slaughter quite so well.

VideogamerTom Bardwell

7/10

No summary available

GameWatcherChris J Capel

6/10

Dead Island and Riptide are both fairly fun games that get repetitive through extended play sessions, lack a little personality, and are altogether awful in single-player. They have also been utterly eclipsed by Techland’s own wonderful Dying Light, which took the Dead Island idea and improved on every element. Nevertheless there is fun to be found here, especially if you can find four players. The graphical upgrades are neat but hardly mind-blowing, still, the Definitive Editions are the o...

Metro GameCentralGameCentral

5/10

As good a remaster as Dead Island fans could hope for, since nothing but a complete remake could solve the game’s deep-rooted gameplay and structural issues.