E3: Dead Island

[Iron Lightning]

So, another game with sterile zombies that don't infect the player. Another silly game with lightning machetes, point pop-ups, and elbowing zombies. Lame, we don't need Left 4 Dead in a sandbox.

 

[NathLines]

My only question is how single-player focused is it. Definitely a wait for the review game, not a first-round buy.

I'm pretty sure it's more focused on Co-op.

 

[ethanizaak]

...the score that sounds like John Carpenter playing Caribbean tunes...

Nice. Very nice.

 

[SoopaSte123]

A fatigue bar, eh? Well that could make things very interesting... If the player is forced to play strategically and this isn't just a shoot em up zombie game, I am most definitely interested.

 

[bushwhacker2k]

September 6 can't come fast enough....

*Uses any type of mystical mojo he can get his hands on to speed time*

This game looks EPIC.

-4 Player Co-op
-Free-roam Open-world
-Lots of loot
-Guns, but not nearly as many as melee weapons
-Large, diverse skill trees
-Challenging combat

I think this game might take the world by storm >:O

 

[Mewick_Alex]

I dunno, from the game play trailers the whole LIGHTNING SWORD! Totally killed it for me, as did the number spam, you loose al elements of fear when you have fun/silly weapons and numbers pop up each kill.

I WILL either rent of get a demo at least but I hesitate to pre-order just yet.

Yea I noticed a few wierd things in the gameplay footage i've seen, odd RPG-esque weapon names like the "brittle baseball bat of padding" seemed very at odds with the atmosphere they're trying to create.

That said, I'm very excited about this. May even warrant booking a day off work for it.

 

[bullet_sandw1ch]

E3: Dead Island



Even deciding to rescue a human character locked in a jeep was an uneasy call to make.






i would throw myself at them. they all gonna pay! On another note, this game looks amazing. cant wait to be a level one sandwich in a level 20 world!

 

[mikespoff]

Far Cry with Zombies? I want

See, this is exactly where I think this game (and most current entries into the current zombie craze) miss the point.

The whole deal with zombies is what they represent, not the actual fighting and killing of them. Unless you die at the end and are transformed into an inhuman husk, then all they've done is re-skinned the monsters from pretty much any alien invasion story. The zombie survival genre needs to end with your death and becoming a zombie, or it's not being true to itself. But that's a horribly depressing story to play through, so I don't really see it happening in a full-length game.

It's the dehumanisation that makes the zombie concept terrifying, but it also limits what you can do with it, story-wise. Boss fights don't make sense in a zombie context: bosses are necessarily differentiated from the horde in a way that zombies shouldn't be.