Dead Island

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Summary

Dead Island is a action role-playing survival horror video game developed by Polish developer Techland and it is centered on the challenge of surviving a zombie-infested open world island with a major emphasis on melee combat, and the making of weapons and weapon mods. You gain XP and level up, gaining skill points.

Dead Island takes place on the fictional (based off a true island near Papua New Guinea) island of Banoi. You play as one of four different characters with different skills and skill trees, and different intro videos. The worlds is half open, you can roam the world as you wish but you will have to go through the main story to progress to the next large open area

The combat is largely melee focused, but you also have firearms and throwing weapons, bullets and guns are scares in the start of the game, but towards the end of the game they are much easier to find. The zombies are mostly slow, but there is a wide range of different zombies throughout the game.

Dead Island: Riptide, was released in 2013. A spin-off, Escape Dead Island,
Dead Island 2, is set to be released in 2016.


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Review by YodaOne [user]
October 29, 2012

After ten hours of Dead Island, I'm losing interest.Too much scrounging, searching, sneaking, retreating, and repairing.I thought it wasAfter ten hours of Dead Island, I'm losing interest.Too much scrounging, searching, sneaking, retreating, and repairing.I thought it was kinda cool to have a mission-based game in a zombie setting. It is cool that you can upgrade weapons several times.What's killing my interest is the nagging weapon maintenance. The wear is remotely believable for the wooden weapons. But something like a heavy pipe wrench or a crowbar would "in reality" split a thousand zombie skulls with at most cosmetic damage to the weapon itself. It gets old gathering money constantly and delaying quests with trips to a repair bench. How does a workbench take money, anyway? If Dead Island didn't have this weapon maintenance aspect, I'd give it a 7.Throw in healing, or maybe less damage from zombie punches, and I might say 8.

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Review by Andreakossa [user]
April 22, 2012

After a rough launch i can say this is an amazing zombie game, alone in a giant island, or in coop mode with your friends, be the one of theAfter a rough launch i can say this is an amazing zombie game, alone in a giant island, or in coop mode with your friends, be the one of the few to leave the infected island of Banoii, fight for your life and the one of your friends, enjoy the side quest missions and the various selection of weapons, enjoy the high graphic of the game, this probably will be game of the year.

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Review by Pelit (Finland)
October 19, 2011

Dead Island is maybe rough around the edges, has things that could have been better and has some strange solutions to gaming mechanics, but really, who cares? The main thing, close combat with zombies on an open environment, is both exceptionally well done and most importantly, great fun. Even alone. In the land of blindingly pretty, but simplified tubeshooters the ugly zombie game is the king.

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Review by Thunderbolt
October 9, 2011

It's the mission design that proves most disappointing. Its scale is highly ambitious but Dead Island's population of living dead aren't enough to compensate for its barren lack of variety and an increasingly tedious structure.

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Review by Qualitygamer [user]
October 8, 2011

A fantastically enjoyable romp through a zombie-infested island. This game is incredibly fun alone, and with others, everything just clicks.A fantastically enjoyable romp through a zombie-infested island. This game is incredibly fun alone, and with others, everything just clicks. Melee combat is implemented well and surprisingly, gun combat is even more fun. Probably the goriest game today - every model has a full three layers: bone, muscles, and flesh. There is no present story, but agree with me when I say this - when you want to get a zombie survival game, what will you expect to be DOING? Surviving! The lack of story does not bother me. The environments are beautiful, and so are the models. However, there are only two cons I can think of.1: All characters have botox faces and are not well-animated. (better than common characters used in Deus Ex: Revolution though)2: There is no excuse as to why your mouse has to be permanently at a very slow speed when using a menu or the inventory.

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Game Information
Release Date September 6, 2011
Publisher Techland, Deep Silver
Content Rated M (Mature)
Game Modes Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Player Perspectives First person
Genres Shooter, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Themes Action, Horror, Survival
Platforms PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 3, Xbox 360