Dead Island drops in just six short days, but if you have six minutes now you can read a brief teaser of the game’s underlying plot and its major players in Deep Silver’s newly released digital prequel comic. Originally handed out as physical swag back at Comic-Con 2011, the 6-page …
Read More »E3 MVG 2011 Selection: Dead Island preview – hands-on with the co-op mode that could be better than Left 4 Dead
After its debut trailer (opens in new tab)shocked countless gamers, we wondered if Dead Island could possibly deliver a game to live up to the surprisingly dramatic video. That video, as well as our previous playtests, focused upon the single player experience. But at E3, we saw four-person cooperative play …
Read More »Dead Island: 11 minutes of solid gameplay looks like a better, gorier, undead Far Cry 2. With excellent skull-splatting combat
You see I saw a build of the game about four years ago at the Leipzig Games Convention, and it looked brilliant. Improvised weaponry, a (literally) deep zombie melee damage model, a huge, living open world with different factions of survivors to help or play off against each other, a …
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