May 23, 2014  Dead Island features a fictional island which is home to a luxury tropical resort. After a night of wild partying the player wakes up as one of the four available characters (each with their own stats and skills) and discovers that the guests have turned into raging flesh eating creatures similar to. This gory zombie slasher is a very great game for people who like FPS ( first-person-shooter ) games. Dead island has a lot of violence and blood and some gore, but the gore isn't a lot. The swearing is extremely I mean extremely high. Almost every sentence you hear there will be a curse word or two. The violence is your everyday zombie game.

Dead Island: Definitive Edition (PS4) – no holidayA true sequel seems as far away as ever, but can this remaster breathe new life into Techland’s zombie apocalypse series.Dead Island isn’t a very good video game. But there are some positive things that can be said about it. The basic premise, of an open world, Fallout-esque, zombie survival game is a good one. And as the infamously deceptive proved, being stuck on a tropical paradise with a horde of the undead is an interestingly unique premise. Especially when you can play through the whole adventure with friends in online co-op. But neither the gameplay nor the graphics came anywhere close to making the most of the concept, and the original is far too flawed for this current gen remaster to make any real difference.To developer Techland’s credit they have made quite an effort with this remaster collection, which includes the original game, quasi-sequel Riptide, and a brand new 2D scroller called Retro Revenge (sensibly, the abominably bad has been quietly forgotten). Only the first game is actually on the disc, with the others having to be downloaded separately, but clearly it’s the original that is the main draw.

AdvertisementIn terms of graphics the game now runs at 1080p and a steady 30 frames per second. There’s also a lot of new lighting and depth of field effects, and many of the 3D objects, including people, have been made more detailed – with many of the textures replaced with updated versions. And yet the game is still off-puttingly ugly. There’s a new dynamic shading effect which makes the shadows look like they’ve been cut into the game with razor blades, with distracting jagged edges that ruin the game’s attempt to ditch the more stylised look of the original.In terms of the gameplay there’s relatively little improvement, with the same awful vehicle controls and awkward movement. Techland does seem to be reusing some elements from Dying Light though, and the collision detection is now much improved – making melee combat in particular more satisfying. It’s still not actively good though and it’s hard not to draw comparisons between the game’s shambling inelegance and the undead creatures you’re pitted against.Predictably, nothing has changed in terms of the terrible storytelling and intensely dislikeable characters, the bland and repetitive mission design, or the needlessly simplistic role-playing elements.

But that was probably asking for too much. Especially as the game’s success suggests that there are plenty of people that simply don’t care how amateurishly made the game is, and are happy to consume it as the video game equivalent of junk food.There was certainly no attempt to improve things for Riptide, the not-quite-a-sequel style follow-up that is little more than a rerun of the first game but with the addition of boats and a simple Tower Defense element. Dead Island: Definitive Edition (PS4) – at least there’s a chainsawBut thanks to the departure of Techland for Dying Light, Riptide is as close as the game has ever come to an official sequel.

Especially after Spec Ops: The Line developer Yager had their work on Dead Island 2. In fact, just this week fans have discovered that all references to Dead Island 2 has been completely removed from Steam, suggesting that the game has now been completely abandoned. Given the success of the original we find that hard to believe, but it also seems unlikely that a sequel is going to appear any time soon – and certainly not before Dying Light 2. AdvertisementThis means that mini-game Retro Revenge may be the closest you get to any genuinely new Dead Island action for a long time.

At first it seems to be a scrolling beat ‘em-up in the style of Streets Of Rage or Final Fight, but in reality it’s closer to being a rhythm action game.The idea is that you move along the stage automatically, and have to switch between three 2D planes in order to attack zombies at the right instant. The 16-bit visuals are nice but it all gets old very quickly and ends up feeling like a terrible waste of a good idea. Which appropriately enough sums up the whole Dead Island franchise so far. In Short: As good a remaster as Dead Island fans could hope for, since nothing but a complete remake could solve the game’s deep-rooted gameplay and structural issues.Pros: A good amount of effort has gone into the remaster and there’s plenty of content here. Four-player co-op is always hard to resist.

Controls are slightly better than the originals.Cons: Combat and driving are still sub-standard. The role-playing elements are very simplistic and mission design highly repetitive. Terrible storytelling and the game still looks ugly and low tech.Score: 5/10Formats: PlayStation 4 (reviewed), Xbox One, and PCPrice: £24.99Publisher: Deep SilverDeveloper: TechlandRelease Date: 31st May 2016Age Rating: 18Email, leave a comment below,.

Zombie games are what I would consider my bread and butter. They don’t have to be flawless creations, but if they have an interesting story and decent weapon variety, I’ll play them and have fun with them.

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I would say I have a soft spot for the Dead Island series in particular, so I jumped at the chance to review the new definitive collection. Unfortunately, either I’m remembering my time with the original game through rose-colored glasses, or the definitive edition is a bit of a letdown.Dead Island Definitive Edition promises a fully remastered game, complete with all previously released DLC and patches.

This means the Ryder White campaign is unlocked from the beginning, and a special mod called One Punch Mode with insanely aggressive hits and kicks is also available. The improved graphics include higher quality character models and a photorealistic lighting system. As a result, humans and zombies alike look a lot better.While this game is truly gorgeous, there seem to be just as many graphical glitches as in the original, if not more. Instead of snapping screenshots of the beauty around me, I found myself taking them of everything that was wrong: blood spurting in nonsensical directions, severed heads floating mid-air, and zombies staring at me blankly.I thought the AI was disappointing, especially for the Infected.

Those yowling terrors used to strike fear into my heart, but Dead Island Definitive turned them into a joke. Instead of bounding straight toward me and bashing my face in, they’re content to run in circles and get stuck in objects – wooden walls, boulders, flower bushes, or whatever else is close.In terms of the hordes you encounter, the number of Thugs and Suiciders on the map seems to have been increased. Even the tiniest of side quests require you to take down a roaring Thug. Floaters only spit slime on you half the time, and often running past a Suicider isn’t enough to trigger its self-destruction like it used to be.The weather effects aren’t perfectly executed, with areas switching from rain to sunshine with the briefest of transitions, but overall the environments are immersive and detailed, illuminated dust motes hanging in the air. You may notice some slight color changes were made to minimap icons and stamina bars, and dialogue text has been slightly polished.However, doors still open toward you at times, the animation during dialogue often gets out of sync with the audio, and once I even encountered an invisible wall that prevented me from leaving an area. The Ryder White campaign is just as subtly troublesome. Explosives have no effect on human enemies, for whatever reason, and the text from listening to audio recordings takes a long time to fade away.

But at least they fixed the bug where your weapon would unequip after eating a snack, am I right?Dead Island Definitive has the exact same achievements as the original, with a few tacked on for the new arena mode. This mode is for those who want to test their survival skills, knocking down wave after wave of undead. There are four difficulties to choose from: Easy, Moderate, Hard, and Very Hard. The arenas feature a workbench where you can repair your weapons, and occasionally zombies will drop medkits or energy drinks, but otherwise you’re left with what you have on hand. You’re able to access this new mode after completing the prologue and reaching the lifeguard tower, and it can only be entered alone – no multiplayer fun to be found here.For me, the main draw of Dead Island has always been the quests. Those, of course, remain unchanged.

Jin and her father’s story makes me emotional without fail, as does returning to the City Hall to find that zombies overtook the building. The quests are the heart of the game, from the main storyline to the random side quests you stumble upon when breaking into bungalows, and they’re what kept me going through this mixed bag of a journey.