1. Ramcur

   9

   Mesmerizing games ! Steam 1.2.0 version is working A1 so far . Not as out of this world as FALLOUT or HALF LIVE but extremely near . Like most games lacks of complexity. The recipe is simple but the result is tasty . 50$ well spent , thanks , that's entretainment ! OPEN WORLD .… Expand

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2. Venatis

   5

   This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The thing with Dead Island is, it starts of very enticing, you want to carry on playing and find out, 'How did this happen?' 'Why am I immune to this disease?' But the more you go through the game, the more you can actually live without knowing. It has a very repetitive style, NPC always asking for something. It's fetch this and fetch that, and halfway through the game you are just feel like saying, 'Go do it yourself!' And the ending left me very disappointed, the cure turning Ryder White into a zombie, oh please! Although admittedly the whole gameplay is very unique and nothing iv seen in a zombie game before, mainly melee combat based to make the game more tricky, but then I wasn't even afraid of dying because you lose some money and then are respawned in exactly the same place, or in some cases at your actual location your going too! Overall its good for about the 1st act before you realise the repetitiveness of it all, combat can be very fun, but sometimes very challenging if you are playing single player rather than multiplayer as you are overwhelmed with zombie (Especially at the church area) but still don't worry, you only lose money! The NPC as well as the PC's are very bland and you don't connect with them, I really couldn't have cared less if they would have all died in the end! (To be honest it would have been a better ending!) The scenery in this game is just amazing and it is fun just to sometimes take time out of doing repetitive quests and just explore the open world!… Expand

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3. crustierpie

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   Not hard to see where this game went wrong. The first you thing you notice is the terrible button layout that’s not changeable and the lack of split screen co-op. Clipping and getting caught on terrain problems run abound as you chunkily meander through a glare ridden beach. Melee combat seems like a bright spot for the game with a number of moves but just like the weapons it quickly deteriorates when you realize that there’s no point in doing anything but kicking for the majority of the game. The voice acting is mediocre at best, one- liners repetitive and nauseating and story is uninspired. There’s a leveling system is similar to borderlands but since the majority of the skills just give you +damage or +critical hit instead of unlocking cool new abilities and when you consider the fact that zombies scale with you it seems rather pointless to have this. Overall the game feels like a rushed combination of Dead rising, Borderlands and Oblivion that fails to meet its mark (or even live up to any of those games individually).… Expand

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