Dead Island Reviews
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Too Long; Didn’t Read When all is said and done, Dead Island is a coop game through and through. The wisp of a story takes too long to pick up and won’t capture your interest for long. While there are a lot of bugs that permeate the experience and at times the presentation struggles with stiff animations and tearing, there is a lot of fun to be had here. If nothing else, the game’s satisfying combat mechanics are the redeeming quality on this island full of corpses. Kicking down a zombie and smashing in its face never gets old. Enemies...
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The incomplete Dead Island is a tough one to size up, as it offers a huge, lush game with great length and replay options thanks to customization, but frustrates constantly with its countless, noticeable errors. It’s undeniable that it will find its success due to the “zombies equal gold” rule, but the game can be so aggravating playing alone, it’s best viewed as a multiplayer only. As long as players lower their expectations, Dead Island will deliver however, but the epic open world RPG comes with a very heavy price.
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Developer Techland is beginning to make a name for itself as a progressive, forward-thinking studio with some lofty ideas but not enough resources to realise them. Dead Island does not buck the developer's burgeoning trend. Part Borderlands, part Fallout, part Diablo, Dead Island is an inventive first person survival horror with some lofty ambitions, but the experience is marred by a number of technical shortcomings and some core design issues.
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Dead Island probably won't win any game of the year awards. It's got visual bugs, the controls take a bit to feel normal, and the presentation in general isn't up to snuff. But the game gets a lot right. There is a huge world to explore, thousands of zombies to kill, and tons of side quests to take. Here on the other side of a 25-hour playthrough -- where I skipped a lot of side quests after Act 1 -- I'm anxious to get back into Dead Island, and despite the game's flaws, that's not something I say often.
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Like the hungry zombies that inhabit the titular island, Dead Island simply needs more brains.
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Dead Island landed with a bang thanks to a lush CGI video that whipped up a hype-style frenzy and put the game firmly at the top of people's most wanted list. A whole island full of zombies to kill, with up to four player co-op? Seems to be a no-brainer (sorry, zombie pun). However, while that video certainly did its job the final product is a touch more rough around the edges, though thankfully not at the cost of the core gameplay.
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