Zero Punctuation: Dead Island

[Yahtzee Croshaw]

Dead Island

This week, Zero Punctuation returns to the zombie apocalypse, again, for Dead Island.

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[Pyramid Head]

Yeah... i think i'll be holding out for Saint's Row: The Third. I wasn't that interested in Dead Island but as soon as i heard "Co-Op" and "Gun Mechanics" i decided i had already purchased better games by owning Condemned and Dead Rising.

 

[Giest4life]

I never really got into Zombie games. I found L4D2 very unimpressive and I never tried another zombie game after that.

 

[teh_Canape]

I thought combat in Zeno Clash was pretty good

 

[jakko12345]

I'm surprised he didn't mention the shitload of bugs. But whatever, great review and I actually liked the game a lot.

 

[Balkan]

Here is a game i think that yahtzee would like
Hecktor point and click .It will be a funny review and will help so people will know this awesome low bugget title .
Also are you going to Review Silent hill Downpour ?

 

[mikey7339]

Glad to see Yahtzee agrees with me on the setting for act 2. Once again, this gritty, depressing, drab, ghetto atmosphere every game is set in any more needs to STOP!

 

[SovietPanda]

Yea my housemate got dead island on release, this game is terrible to watch and looks boring as hell to play. Spoon a lathe indeed

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

Everything about Dead Island sucks. I'm surprised he didn't mention how awkward the movement is in this game, because if you played it you know how much it can piss you off.

 

[PAGEToap44]

Wait... did he like it or not?

Even though it was zombies again, I really enjoyed Dead Island. And all the things Yahtzee seems to find frustrating about the game didn't bother me. I just got straight to the zombie killing. This is why I play zombie games. To kill zombies.

PS. Ok the escort missions were a buggerance but apart from that I love this game.

 

[Sir Mate]

Oh ,its good to know that i can trust Yahtzee to rip pieces of shit like this a new one.
Why did the general public overlook so much flaws is beyond me.

 

[Fenra]

No yatzee please dont give them ideas, we'll see a wolfman island now!

But he pretty much picked up on everything I thought of that game too, particularily the sidequests and while it was ammusing for a while with 2 of my friends who also had the game I havent touched it since, maybe I will someday but its just really not that compelling, shame too but that'll teach me for falling for the hype train

 

[DJShire]

Sewar levels really do send a game down the drain for you, don't they Yahtzee?

That's as bad as saying "despite all his rage, he was still just a Trav in a Cage" for the movie Face/Off.

 

[gphjr14]

I don't care for zombie games and even I could tell this one was going to blow. Also I've heard it had several glitches that made it unplayable and for some people you couldn't save your progress which kind of defeats the whole purpose of playing, since you can't progress.

 

[Mrsoupcup]

So I'm not missing anything good? Great.

I hated Borderlands and Dead Rising, so I doubt I'll even rent this.

 

[Henriksen]

Yeah, thins game was a HUGE disappointment.

 

[Karma168]

Glad i gave this a miss, from what i saw from the proper review and from this it just seems like another boring as hell zombie basher.

 

[The_Raging_Tree]

*claps* every single word he said in this was exactly how I felt about this piss stain of a game.

I was really hyped for this but it was just awful, awful combat, awful voice acting, awful visuals (characters just don't look right), awful attempt to get me to care for the characters and....just...just SO GOD DAMN AWFUL.

I really hate this bloody game, Dead Rising 1 is a better open world zombie game and that game is 5 years old for goodness sake.

Dead Island for now is my personal worst game of 2011.

 

[Random berk]

Wait... did he like it or not?

Even though it was zombies again, I really enjoyed Dead Island. And all the things Yahtzee seems to find frustrating about the game didn't bother me. I just got straight to the zombie killing. This is why I play zombie games. To kill zombies.

PS. Ok the escort missions were a buggerance but apart from that I love this game.

"Dead Island can go spoon a fucking lathe."

No, I'm pretty sure he didn't.

Hmm, this looks bad. I was planning on buying Dead Island as soon as I had my 360 back, but maybe now I'll just rent it or borrow from a friend, at least til I can figure out if it really is as terrible as Yahtzee says.

 

[ZZoMBiE13]

I have had a lot of fun with Dead Island. It's got it's issues, but the atmosphere and setting are well done. And I love the Analog fighting controls. They seriously should do a better job advertising those because they make the game significantly better.

I wonder if Yahtzee used Analog fighting or the default combat options?