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Dead Island.

Discussion in 'Other games' started by goodyman8, Feb 19, 2012.

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  1. goodyman8

    goodyman8 Bison Rider

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    Another fella made the thread,although the few that might remember reading it werent too satisfied.
    Here is what it is.
    Dead island is a zombie game,as the name would suggest.
    Features=
    First person style rather detailed melee combat system.
    Very detailed HP system for the enemy.
    Online Co-op
    Weapon customization.
    Enemies level along with you,so they become stronger along you.

    Story.
    You play as either one of the 4 playable characters.
    Sam B,a blunt weapon specialist also a once famous rapper.
    Came to the island to perform his hit song,his other songs weren't too successful.
    Xian Mei, a sharp weapon specialist and a spy from the hong kong police.
    Logan Carter,thrown weapon specialist who also was a star player for a baseball team.
    And Purna,firearms specialist who once was a police officer.

    First Cutscene before the game
    You see the cutscene trough an unspecified person (which i guess would be Ryder White).
    The first infected attacking and the person sleeping from a hangover.

    Beginning the game.
    Wont spoil too much.
    You start as you wake up from what seems to be an hangover,or whatever it is that makes one sleep while everyone goes to hell.
    After being contacted by an unknown person that instructs you to go somewhere,you get seen by a few infected and bit.
    Later you find out that you seem to be immune to the rather weird disease,and that even though you are immune.
    Those are not 'love marks'.
    You then start your quest,exhausting your options and seeing on how the characters will move.
    Save themselves alone or save everyone.

    Combat system.
    The melee combat is very detailed in this game,you are able to cut(with bladed) and break(with blunt) weapons.
    You can aim at every part of the infected/human enemy,hitting different body parts gives different reactions and each body part has 'stages' of HP.
    For example,while a shotgun is weak in general.
    It can blow a head off because of the damage it deals to that specific body part.
    There are also 2 bars on the enemy,yellow is stability.
    If that gets exhausted they get knocked down and easily kill-able.
    Red,obviously HP.

    Customization and creation.
    After you complete misc quests for different persons they give you different modifications for weapons,for example the ability to put a battery on your blade so it gives off lightning dam.
    Or put a wooden weapon on fire(reducing durability) but making it deal fire dam.
     
  2. mushymush101

    mushymush101 Catapult Fodder

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    dude i have already mae one on this!!!
     
  3. Wonkyth

    Wonkyth More precious than carbuncles! Donator Tester

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    Yes, and it was so bad I considered it spam.

    goodyman8: Nice rundown! I've kinda missed a lot of the more recent zombie games, including this one, due to their failure to reach a low enough price for me to consider. :P
    It seems to have a reasonably strong theme with the RPG-like features, quite like many other zombie games! ^__^
    How's the online co-op? Often these days it just seems an arbitrary addition, but I'm thinking this is a little more in-depth? :D
     
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  4. goodyman8

    goodyman8 Bison Rider

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    Im not quite into multiplayer and i play such games on Xbox (because i play once and then take a break etc,too much to pay like that).
    But from what the developers show you,when you play online.
    Someone joins the game and you both do what you was doing or help each other out,i dont know if you can go to another map while multiplayer although it could be possible.
    And it should be a bit more in dept because the game is from what i've seen in singleplayer.
    More designed to challenge a whole group instead of one,some missions i had to redo lots because of that.
    The cutscenes also start to show all 4 heroes after a while.
    At first the killing is easy,but the stronger you get the tougher they become.
    The more you need to use better weapons,and you also a lot of money(for upgrades/repairs) so its always wise to consider MP.
    But i didn't really do it so it would be hard to tell for me if its good or not.(although i like what they showed me)
    And ill edit this later for grammar fixes.
     
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