Dead Island 2 review - 7/10

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#1 R4gn4r0k
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Dead Island 2 reviews just dropped, scoring a 7 on both IGN and Gamespot websites.

IGN cites a great sense of humor as one of the games pluspoints.

For me, it's always nice to see a game come out of development hell unscaved.

What say you, are you ready for more zombie games?

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#2 above_average
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Looks like good mindless fun, not a $70 purchase but a decent sale would make it a good pick up.

But the real question is, does it run 60fps? 🤔

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#3 Archangel3371
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Looks like it turned out fairly well enough. Probably would have picked this up but there’s just way too much coming out in the next couple of months that I want to get. Perhaps it’ll be something I’ll grab down the road.

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#4 poe13
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Yeah, looks like good ol mindless zombie fun. I'll wait a few years though myself. It will likely come to Steam next year with the whole Epic exclusivity deal going but I am going to wait even longer once its nice n cheap then.

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#5  Edited By Mesome713
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Ill wait till its like $19.99 or on GamePass.

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@above_average said:

Looks like good mindless fun, not a $70 purchase but a decent sale would make it a good pick up.

But the real question is, does it run 60fps? 🤔

It does yeah, and it runs on the same engine as Redfall does in fact.

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@mesome713 said:

Ill wait till its like $19.99 or on GamePass.

True, we still have a lot of Nintendo games to go through.

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@Archangel3371 said:

Looks like it turned out fairly well enough. Probably would have picked this up but there’s just way too much coming out in the next couple of months that I want to get. Perhaps it’ll be something I’ll grab down the road.

Last few months have been crazy and it looks like there is no end in sight, so many solid releases.

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@R4gn4r0k: Indeed. So much great stuff coming out right now.

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#10  Edited By Mesome713
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@R4gn4r0k: Heck yeah, Advance Wars coming this Friday.

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I look forward to it when it is on sale. 😁

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#12  Edited By ukcrazyguy
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Expected around a 7. But loved the original and Riptide, still play them every so often now. So will definitely be picking this up at the weekend.

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One of those might get it when its dirt cheap-games.

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@R4gn4r0k said:
@above_average said:

Looks like good mindless fun, not a $70 purchase but a decent sale would make it a good pick up.

But the real question is, does it run 60fps? 🤔

It does yeah, and it runs on the same engine as Redfall does in fact.

This year feels like year 1 of this current console gen. Seems like developers are finally finding their #tools and putting out decent steam of respectable releases now.

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#15  Edited By KvallyX
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I will get this on sale for my XSX. $19.99 or less.

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@above_average said:

Looks like good mindless fun, not a $70 purchase but a decent sale would make it a good pick up.

But the real question is, does it run 60fps? 🤔

Yep. No way in a fucking million years paying anything more than £49.99

Without even checking guessing spammed a bunch of day 1 DLC garbo as well, shit already made, segmented from the game as "le bonus"

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#17 simple-facts
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I think cows would agree a 7 means a shit game?

Ghost of tsunami 7 out of 10

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#18  Edited By above_average
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@uninspiredcup said:
@above_average said:

Looks like good mindless fun, not a $70 purchase but a decent sale would make it a good pick up.

But the real question is, does it run 60fps? 🤔

Yep. No way in a fucking million years paying anything more than £49.99

Without even checking guessing spammed a bunch of day 1 DLC garbo as well, shit already made, segmented from the game as "le bonus"

To be honest, there are going to be a lot of "decent" games I'm probably going to pass on this year.

The quality threshold from other competing games Is just too high for me to settle for paying full price only to play decent titles in 2023. Games are going to have to compete for people money this year, it's gonna be cut throat out there.

A lot of otherwise good games are going to be passed over.

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Kinda a miracle all things considered.

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#20  Edited By hardwenzen
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Wasn't the first even lower, but everyone liked it?

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#21 TheEroica  Moderator
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I can see myself picking this up if it runs well on steam deck.

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#22  Edited By Ghosts4ever
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After RE4. zombie action games seem very flat.

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@R4gn4r0k: Already pre-order on PC (EGS time exclusive) and I'm excited about killing Zombies. What can I say, I love Zombie games.

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I'll probably get it

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That's actually better than I was expecting. I might get this. Though with Diablo 4 on the horizon, my "mindless game where I kill hordes of enemies" slot might be filled with that.

Also I have been enjoying Aliens Fireteam Elite a lot, too.

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@davillain said:

@R4gn4r0k: Already pre-order on PC (EGS time exclusive) and I'm excited about killing Zombies. What can I say, I love Zombie games.

What was your opinion on Days Gone?

I picked it up a while ago on PC and sort of gave up on it after a few hours. Does it get better? Seemed like it took itself a bit serious and that sacrificed a lot of fun.

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#27  Edited By DaVillain  Moderator
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@mrbojangles25 said:

What was your opinion on Days Gone?

I picked it up a while ago on PC and sort of gave up on it after a few hours. Does it get better? Seemed like it took itself a bit serious and that sacrificed a lot of fun.

Days Gone was really awesome port for PC, I'd totally recommend it. Only reason why I like that game is 2 reasons. 1, The game felt like it was rip from World War Z (the movie actually) which I think fits well for Days Gone & 2, I was a fan of the show The Sons of Anarchy. Days Gone has lots of easter eggs from The Sons of Anarchy if you never watch the show, I think you should check it out as Deacon St. John is a biker gang that feels he's been ripped for the show.

Riding around on the Motorcycle was the best part of the game, gameplay can be a hit or a miss but I didn't have any issues with it as I always play 3rd-person with my Xbox Series controller on PC. The first few hours of start it is slow but really picks up once you have access to more expanded areas so you gotta keep playing.

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#28  Edited By lamprey263
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When it comes to $70 games, while I think some developers and publishers feel it should be a uniform blanket price for all new AAA releases, some games are just going to have a much harder time justifying such a price to consumers.

Some games though seem to have no issue if the game is too high profile for people to say no to it, this doesn't appear to be one of them.

Almost no marketing went into this BTW. No hype building. It seemed like it was in perpetual development hell for years, then suddenly it just lands at $70... good luck.

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Might give it a go enjoyed the 1st on PS3 way back hope the combat is better.

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#30 Macutchi
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it's already got a 15% discount on amazon and its even not out until fri. can see the price plummeting fast with this one. looks ok from reviews but cant really see me picking this up even heavily discounted. maybe if i'm really bored and there's a drought later this year. but big if

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@mrbojangles25 said:
@davillain said:

@R4gn4r0k: Already pre-order on PC (EGS time exclusive) and I'm excited about killing Zombies. What can I say, I love Zombie games.

What was your opinion on Days Gone?

I picked it up a while ago on PC and sort of gave up on it after a few hours. Does it get better? Seemed like it took itself a bit serious and that sacrificed a lot of fun.

I beat Days Gone for the first time right before The Last of Us launched and I had a good time.

It does take some time in the beginning to really get going as the gameplay and story at the start can drag on. But you are really dropped into a zombie infested open world and the game pulls it off so well.

Like Davillain said the PC version is awesome and you will really get to love riding and upgrading your bike. The game is also highly moddable and two mods I would recommend are the dismemberment mod, causing dismemberment on zombies and the weapon restauration mod. You can restore weapons that were dropped in alpha like I had a P90 and a auto shotgun (these weapons look and act like they truly belong in the game) and I believe there is also a flamethrower.

In summary the game can drag on at times, it has really boring and low story beats, but near the end of the game you become this one man army taking down hordes of zombies and it just feels like a true power fantasy. Really cool game.

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@hardwenzen said:

Wasn't the first even lower, but everyone liked it?

Since it's from the same developers, I would call Dying Light the definitive version of Dead Island.

The first Dying Light has everything Dead Island did and then some.

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@R4gn4r0k said:
@hardwenzen said:

Wasn't the first even lower, but everyone liked it?

Since it's from the same developers, I would call Dying Light the definitive version of Dead Island.

The first Dying Light has everything Dead Island did and then some.

Have heard more praise for dead island than DL.

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@R4gn4r0k said:
@mrbojangles25 said:
@davillain said:

@R4gn4r0k: Already pre-order on PC (EGS time exclusive) and I'm excited about killing Zombies. What can I say, I love Zombie games.

What was your opinion on Days Gone?

I picked it up a while ago on PC and sort of gave up on it after a few hours. Does it get better? Seemed like it took itself a bit serious and that sacrificed a lot of fun.

I beat Days Gone for the first time right before The Last of Us launched and I had a good time.

It does take some time in the beginning to really get going as the gameplay and story at the start can drag on. But you are really dropped into a zombie infested open world and the game pulls it off so well.

Like Davillain said the PC version is awesome and you will really get to love riding and upgrading your bike. The game is also highly moddable and two mods I would recommend are the dismemberment mod, causing dismemberment on zombies and the weapon restauration mod. You can restore weapons that were dropped in alpha like I had a P90 and a auto shotgun (these weapons look and act like they truly belong in the game) and I believe there is also a flamethrower.

In summary the game can drag on at times, it has really boring and low story beats, but near the end of the game you become this one man army taking down hordes of zombies and it just feels like a true power fantasy. Really cool game.

Welp, looks like I'm giving it another go.

Sorry Dead Island 2...maybe during a Steam sale.

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@R4gn4r0k said:
@hardwenzen said:

Wasn't the first even lower, but everyone liked it?

Since it's from the same developers, I would call Dying Light the definitive version of Dead Island.

The first Dying Light has everything Dead Island did and then some.

First Dying Light was great but Dying Light 2 kinda drop the ball but still a decent game. You'll be killing more Humans than the Zombies themselves which is why Dying Light 2 was disappointing. From what I've seen & read reviews for Dead Island 2, Dead Island 2 focusing killing Zombies is what Dying Light 2 should have been.

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Welp, looks like I'm giving it another go.

Sorry Dead Island 2...maybe during a Steam sale.

Best to wait for Steam version as Dead Island 2 is EGS time exclusive and I'm more neutral towards EGS as I don't often mind purchasing games on the client. Just keep on playing Days Gone as it gets better the more you play the main storyline.

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@simple-facts said:

I think cows would agree a 7 means a shit game?

Ghost of tsunami 7 out of 10

We’ll go be fair, Halo Infinite‘s multiplayer (a free add on) received a 6.5, which is lower than this game and GoT.

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@hardwenzen said:
@R4gn4r0k said:
@hardwenzen said:

Wasn't the first even lower, but everyone liked it?

Since it's from the same developers, I would call Dying Light the definitive version of Dead Island.

The first Dying Light has everything Dead Island did and then some.

Have heard more praise for dead island than DL.

Dunno, but this sounds different from my experience.

Check out Angry Joe's review for the game, he only has positive things to say eventhough he is a man that is supposed to be always angry.

Dying Light 1 also received countless amounts of free DLC long after they originally promised to work on the game, just because it kept selling and because it kept being in the top played games on Steam. it's a very strong game only made better with DLC and the only reason they stopped supporting it with free DLC is because they had a sequel to promote.

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