Dead Island (video game)

[Danny]

WELP. this happened.

[Neil]

Bloodbath Arena DLC released... http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/11/23/de...lc-is-out-now/ http://deadislandfans.com/2011/11/bl...ntro-gameplay/ BloodBath Arena is the first DLC from Dead Island. It pits up to 4 players in Arena style battles against the infected zombies. 4 different arena’s will be at you disposal as you take on wave after wave of infected, trying to survuive the longest and climb you way up the worldwide ladderboard.

[Neil]

New DLC... Deep Silver has announced "Ryder White", an upcoming DLC for Dead Island. The DLC will introduce a new playable character called Ryder White, and will offer a new take on the incidents in the main story of Dead Island. Ryder White is a military man and a loving husband, find out why he did what he did over seven hours of story content. There will also be two new blueprints and weapons to expand you zombie-bashing arsenal. http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/63...yder-White-DLC

[nectarsis]

the game just does not live up to the hype. He said after a while it gets boring, the mechanics of fighting the zombies is pretty screwed and it just becomes monotonous very quickly. I just nabbed this game (Amazon Deal of the Day $25 for PS3). I completely agree. In this day and age, combat, driving, etc. could/should be handled a LOT better. Also the PS3 version has a fairly high amount of graphic glitches...annoyingly so. 4-5 hours in and yet to even get my first gun :\ It seems to many people that it came across to them as "Call of Duty on Zombie Island"...kind of how they pushed the game a bit. Couldn't be farther from the truth. It has grown on me, but def glad I nabbed it cheap.

[acealive1]

my god was this game DISAPPOINTING. i bought it used and geez.....im sad i even did it.

[Tricky]

I enjoyed it for a couple of weeks but never got round to completing it, as said above it gets samey very quickly and despite looking very pretty (on PC) the world isnt as interactive as you'd hope. Plus all you are, regardless of character, is a glorified messenger "go fetch this, go fetch that, bring it back here" while caving a few zombies heads in along the way.

[Danny]

I enjoyed it for a couple of weeks but never got round to completing it, as said above it gets samey very quickly and despite looking very pretty (on PC) the world isnt as interactive as you'd hope. Plus all you are, regardless of character, is a glorified messenger "go fetch this, go fetch that, bring it back here" while caving a few zombies heads in along the way. heres the thing, the zombies are pointless. they could be bloody aliens, triffids, rabid dogs, anything and the game would be exactly the same. the moment you are told you are immune to the virus the virus becomes moot and therefore so does the nature of the enemy. its not a game about zombies. thats just the token enemy they picked and it makes no difference and its a bloody shame.

[acealive1]

i just traded dead island back in, the policy is that they cant take a used game back unless its for the same game.......but he did it anyway. so i went with the safe bet and got nba 2k12

[ProfessorChaos]

this game was on sale during the XBLA "ultimate game sale" last week. it was only 10 bucks, and i'm bored while waiting for state of decay to come out, so i figured "what the hell, why not?" so far, i'm not really that impressed....should have gone back and re-read this thread to remind myself of my initial impressions of it and maybe i'd have saved myself 10 bucks. it's still playable, but it's getting stale pretty quick. and the combat is awful, story is corny so far, all survivors i've ran across are complete morons, and every single one of them curses like it's going out of style....while i'm all for profanity when it's warranted, in this game it just seems like it's trying to hard to be edgy and cool by having characters drop the f-bomb every time they open their damn mouths. 4/10 (and that may be a bit generous)

[Neil]

^ For all that, I do find the atmosphere quite impressive!