The parkour zombie series Dying Light does this fantastically, setting up harrowing scenes amidst the ruin and rubble of decimated cities. it’s as bright and bawdy as ever.Įnvironmental story-telling does a lot of the heavy-lifting as tends to be the case with the genre. While Dead Island 2 takes the action to L.A. I loved Dead Island and the Riptide expansionįor what they were – an unbridled gore fest to wade through with friends, that swapped out the gritty backdrops of your typical zombocalypse for a tropical paradise. Admittedly, it was very much of its time would we have another Duke Nukem Forever situation on our hands? MirrorGaming is streaming a Dead Island 2 playthrough on YouTube before the game is released. Dead Island hit the sweet spot with the extensive crafting, four-player co-op, tongue-in-cheek tone, and sun-drenched setting. Of course, not all zombie games are created equal, with Capcom’s Dead Rising falling flat for me despite the robust and frankly ludicrous weapon crafting system. You couldn’t swing a dismembered arm without hitting a shambling corpse of course there are games that made zombies their bread and butter before the undead fad – Resident Evil being chief among them.
I’m a sucker for zombie games, movies and books, so I was in my element 10 years ago.
The follow-up to 2011’s Dead Island was first announced in 2014 and for fans of the series, it’s been a long time coming but was it worth the wait? Undoubtedly. Dead Island 2 has been languishing in development hell for a little over a decade, passing through the hands of three different studios before landing in Dambusters’ lap.
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