Dead Island (video game)

[AcesandEights]

Merged threads. Game looks great, or at least the trailer looks great! I figured this project was dead in the water.

[bassman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Island - The zombie style and the story are massively influenced by George A. Romero's movies. That must have been before they saw Diary and Survival. Now they may not be so quick to make that comparison. This trailer has spread around the net like wildfire. I even saw it on TV yesterday. It's good publicity for them....let's just hope it will live up to the hype.

[DjfunkmasterG]

Fuck the game, I wanna see a movie set like this. That was some very emotional stuff, and personally I prefer the original backwards version compared to the chronological version.

[krisvds]

Agreed. Backwards version packs quite a punch. As for the 'inspired by Romero' bit: those are runners, not shamblers dammit. Let's just hope they don't include some 'mutated giant end of level type monsters'. Those shenanigans nearly destroyed every zombie videogame 'till now for me.

[MinionZombie]

Aye, the backwards version has a greater impact on the first viewing as you learn the relationship between the characters, so it escalates and there's a greater sense of loss and tragedy when you see if played that way ... indeed the shot of the father coming for the daughter, in reverse, works very well considering the context. The screenshots look good too, so it certainly looks the part - I just hope that the actual game will be good, and that it has the emotional impact that this trailer had. Speaking of which, whoever made this trailer should be given an award - it's a superb teaser trailer, and conveys a strong sense of emotion in just three minutes that many movies can't be arsed to bother with in 90 minutes! The zombies are decidedly spritely, mind ... not very GAR ... but runners can be tolerated if what surrounds them is of good enough quality. Perhaps we'll get a variety in the game, eh? I've downloaded the two versions of the trailer in HD so I can watch them over and over at my own leisure to boot.

[LoSTBoY]

It seemed there was only one runner (the bell hop who pushed through the slower zombies) so it might be a case of recently dead have more speed than those longer dead.

[Neil]

Here's the trailer promising it 3yrs ago http://www.ign.com/videos/2007/08/22...bjectid=955540

[kidgloves]

Jeez. Those trailers really evoke emotion in the viewer. What a horrific situation to be in.

[blind2d]

Cool, thanks Neil.

[DjfunkmasterG]

Man people on You Tube are in a snit over this trailer... No one realizes the fucking kid is a zombie

[Rancid Carcass]

Man people on You Tube are in a snit over this trailer... No one realizes the fucking kid is a zombie I think it's because that for the first time people are starting to realise what we've known all along - that the zombie apocalypse isn't some jolly romp involving a few wise cracking adults running round popping zombies in the head and having a high old time, and that it's actually a grade-A shitstorm that spares absolutely no-one. Hats off to Techland for capturing the harsh brutality of a zombie outbreak in a domestic situation which, I'm sure we can all agree on, is something we don't see often enough. The whole fascination (for me at least), of the zombie apocalypse is that it has a brutal reality to it, that's what's so powerful about the original NIGHT, that it put this inescapable nightmare world in your neighbourhood, on your doorstep and in your living room. Perhaps it's a sad reflection on the state of the genre that this gritty reality has gotten lost in recent years and it's slipped back into the (safe), realm of fantasy – and we've now got a whole generation that view zombies as just another monster, they don't realise that zombies are in fact your friends, family the folk next door. What this trailer has done has exposed them to the true horror of what a zombie apocalypse really means and the impact it would have, and maybe for the first time in their lives, it's made them sit down a think about it, and it's scared them, I mean really scared them – it's not funny any more and it's made them uncomfortable. Just like it's supposed to.

[slickwilly13]

Man people on You Tube are in a snit over this trailer... No one realizes the fucking kid is a zombie Some people lack intelligence and common sense. I may buy this game, but I am waiting for more info. It looks promising, though.

[Neil]

I'd be tempted to think this footage is actually video 'scene setting' (cut scene) from within the game itself? And the husband a wife are two of the characters you can play? Be clearly the father is bitten, and the wife is on her way out in seconds!

[DjfunkmasterG]

For those who like the music: http://content.deepsilver.com/kochme...iler-Theme.mp3

[MikePizzoff]

I agree, Danny, this has to be the best video game trailer I've ever laid eyes upon. I'm wishing the team behind this would get together and create a feature-length CGI zombie film (Resident Evil: Degeneration, anyone?).