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Dead Island first gained a lot of attention when its first trailer was released and since then everybody has been hyping this game up like it was the next Half-Life. I got the game as soon as it was released and I was treated on yet another beautiful cutscene that served as the game's intro.

- Nice cutscenes; - You can chop off individual body parts

- Story that doesn't go anywhere; - Boring characters; - Poor combat mechanics; - Weapons get damaged; - Repetitive gameplay; - Boring soundtrack

An excellent product for an affordable price!

Imagine, if you will, a game where you play as a little skeleton rising from the grave and, in an attempt to escape the Grim Reaper and the graveyard where you were interred, you're only option is to punt your skull as hard as you can. All for Game Center-centric leaderboard lust of course.

Takes away all of the elements that made Dead Island fun. No level up. That means no skill tree. Really difficult with no real payoff. This story takes place concurrently with that of Dead Island's.

Dead Island is a strange game, one that has an odd desire to simultaneously delight and disappoint its audience. This bizarre dichotomy existed even before the game was released, beginning with a brilliantly haunting announcement trailer and evolving into a hip hop music video .

The zombie survival game has evolved over the years, from epic to worse, to even worse, and then back to epic with Left 4 Dead which has brought a revival to the zombie genre. And with the zombie theme, it appears Dead Island intends to take that ‘So you think you can survive a Zombie Apocalypse?

The island is awesome; Slow motion decapitations are gratifying; Controls are set up nicely for quicker reaction times using trigger layouts

Fetch Quest Hell; Tries to be too many things at once, and fails at all of them; Respawning items take all the ‘survival' aspects away from the game

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Dead Island is a first-person shooter that combines elements of the survival-horror genre and adventure games. The game tells the story of a couple being tossed ashore onto the sandy beaches of a desolate, zombie-infested island.

Dead Island reprend un scénario mille fois vu dans les mauvais films d'horreur. Sur une île magnifique où se prélassent des vacanciers, sans doute en formule tout compris, se répand un bien mauvais fléau.

Ambiance série B assumée; Un vaste terrain de jeu; Une partie solo conséquente; Un multi sympathique

Visuellement en retrait; Trop redondant parfois