Dead Island Definitive Edition

I played this game when I was much younger, and I loved it. got it again now 6 years later after trying dead island 2, and I am thrilled to say that this game is still the beautiful gem that it was when I first played it.

I would only recommend this game if you have a friend to do it with you. Dead Island is Borderlands-esque type game where there is a main story with side quests that happen through different environments with online co-op with 1-4 people. The game has great melee combat, where you can customise weapons with different mods you find throughout the world or quest rewards. You have four characters you can choose from, each specialising in a different type of weapon; gun, blunt weapons, sharp weapons and throwable knives.

The story is there but it's bad. You have no reason to care about any characters and when you're suppose to, it doesn't feel impactful at all. The first area is a great introduction to the game but the problems with the game get exasperated once you enter the city. Fetch quests start to get tiresome with all the backtracking in the city, because there is just so many zombies. We decided to just focus on the main story from there on.

This is originally a game from 2011, it's going to be rough in some ways. The melee combat is the most enjoyable aspect of the game and the online co-op means you have a friend to play with. I'm only recommending it because it was mostly enjoyable but it does have many shortcomings.

Sick storyline. Gonna try dead island 2 next

great game, great story, loved the DLC but the movement in this game bro oh my gosh. it's like my feet are wheels bro. jumping and sprinting doesn't always work gotta hold the button in again.

A cult classic, sadly didn't age too well and if I could I would give it a rather neutral rating.
The story is quite fun, although if you pay closer attention it doesn't make much sense.
Graphics hold up relatively well, sidequests are mostly just fetch or kill quests which sucks.
Also my god, the controls suck!

An absolute classic banger of a game. This is my 3rd time playing it and it's still fun to play with friends!

Love this nostalgic game, when this came out originally in 2011 me and my brothers loved it on the Ps3
Not a very PC demanding game even my poor PC could run it.
The story is interesting aswell as where the story is located in the tropical beaches/vacation area.
It's kind of like dying light but without the parkour.

Game runs poorly, faced some bugs while driving vehicle where car get stuck in some invisible object. buy dying light instead. This game is not worth the purchase.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Okay
☐ Bad
☐ Very stylized
☐ They're what they should be for what the game is
☐ MS Paint could make something better

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Fantastic
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Meh
☐ Bad, but playable
☐ Just go watch paint dry

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Amazing
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not to bad
☐ Alright
☐ Bad
☐ My ears are bleeding

---{ Audience }---
☑ Babies
☑ Young kids
☑ Young teens
☑ Older teens
☑ Adults
☑ Old people
☑ Anyone with a decent maturity level
☑ Anyone with a lack of maturity
☑ Anyone that is alive
☑ No one, not even your dog

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Just average
☐ A little better than average
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Better than good
☐ Fancy Pants Rich Boy
☐ NASA

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Can choose your difficulty setting
☐ No difficulty needed
☐ Just press 'W"
☐ Easy
☑ Medium
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Hard
☐ Verry Difficult

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if you like to collect things
☑ Only if you care about steam achievements
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Only if you care about rankings/placements/leaderboards/etc.
☑ Average grind level
☐ A little grindy
☐ Too much grind
☐ You‘ll need a second life, maybe some macros, & a will to live for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ Story? What story?
☐ No Story
☐ Twilight was a better love story than this
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It‘ll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ 1-2 Hours
☐ 2-5 Hours
☐ 5-10 Hours
☐ 10-20 Hours
☑ 20-50 Hours
☐ 50+ Hours
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Replayablity }---
☐ You won't even finish it the first time
☐ None, once was enough
☐ Not that kind of game
☐ You don't stop playing this kinda game, ever
☐ Maybe once or twice, to try something new
☑ You'll want to get every single possible ending & secret there is
☐ You'll pick it up every few years, but never finish a whole playthrough
☐ A lot, just to romance everyone, pick new options. try new classes, etc

---{ Price }---
☐ It’s free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If you have some money to blow
☐ Wait for it to go on sale for the 100th time
☐ Ask someone to gift it to you instead
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Circumstantial (PC specs, internet, save/install location, etc.)
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ 9 / 10 }---
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I loved it so much! Got obsessed with it until the end. The Ryder DLC thought annoyed me a lot, wanted to drop it many times because of the hordes of fast zombies constantly running at you. Definitely recommend the game!

Honestly, Dead Island is one of THE zombie games of all time... This may come off as an insult, but honestly, it's just as much a compliment! The game has a very promising start by being set in the rather unique setting of a tropical resort, and although that aesthetic unfortunately fades into more typical zombie-outbreak locales like cities, sewers & prisons, the variety of enemies that are instantly distinguishable (kinda like the L4D zombies), skill trees unique to whichever character you select with the a weapon crafting system that holds up surprisingly well and sidequests that'll give you hours of additional playtime as well as an entire area mode and DLC campaign, this is a strong reccomendation for those looking for some pure comfort food zombie action at an affordable price.

When I'm asked to name a zombie game, Dead Island manages to sit on my top 5 IPs I'll immediately refrence alongside Resident Evil, Left 4 Dead, The Last of Us & Killing Floor / CoD Zombies / Zombie Army!

I tried to like this game, but it quickly got boring for me after a few hours, the game feels janky while having some performance issues for some people, the combat gets boring and you have absolutely no way to block attacks from zombies that can easily kill you if they are in a group, maybe i was better off getting Dying Light instead.

The game starts really good, the resort, beaches and zombies makes an unique combination but it gets boring with time. What I hate most are the zombies that throw melee weapons at you with crazy accuracy, they come from nowhere and can one shot kill you, it's very irritating.

This is the kind of game that I would finish and never play again.

the best game of 2012 besides hitman absolutiton

Best birthday gift of last year.
It's very enterteining to go around the island, killing everything that's moving and leveling. I recommend it a lot.

Played the hell out of Dead Island when I was younger and replaying it years later has been fun. Gameplay is a bit wonky sometimes with some mechanics but is overall alright. I felt a major difficulty spike between Acts 2 and 3 but that might be from me focusing mainly on the main quest. The soundtrack is incredible. The characters are decent. Overall a good game.

This is the best worst experience ever. I've probably spent too much money on this series but you know its jank and it's fun. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND playing this with friends because although it might make the game easier, everyone can shit themselves together. I also HIGHLY RECOMMEND that if you plan on playing this, buy Riptide as well. It makes the fun last longer but mainly it helps with actually finishing the story which to be honest, is pretty good. (The lore of this game is incredibly interesting but due note that Dead Island 2 goes very off course with the storyline as it takes place like 10 years later with a new BS virus. It is such a lamer story that I actually recommend you don't play DI2 or you buy it for a very heavy discount but it is still fun just not this kind of fun.) This game has aged actually really well and you'll for the most part find people consistently playing it even if it's small numbers. Another thing is that I recommend getting a mod menu after you have beaten the game a few times (mainly mean getting that achievement with the whole cast) to at least spice up the game a little more but it's understandable if you don't cause Nexus feels like it is going to give you a porn virus if you download anything from it.

10/10
The characters' premise fits my needs of perspective.
This might not mean anything, and I apologize if this isn't misleading.
I don't leave bad reviews, all efforts are a perfect score.

Es un juego muy divertido, tiene buenos graficos sonido decente y una jugabilidad que me recuerda mucho a FarCry 3 salvando las diferencias se siente a Farcry 3 con zombies.

Its an amazing game, we need more games like this, im too bad to understand the story of a game or i eventually forget it but this game has an story but its not that relevant because its a really bad story tbh, but the thing that i liked the most is the mods and the weapons, there a are a lot of weapons with a lot of mods that every mod does something different, its really good if you have friends to play it because the coop is fun

One of the most fun times I have had with friends. The extremely janky mechanics lead to really funny moments. I wouldnt really recommend playing it solo though.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☐ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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Dead Island Definitive Edition has really nice graphics and fun gameplay. The atmosphere is quite immersive and the details present in the look and layout of the island resort is believable. The only aspect holding this game back from greatness is the lack of variety of the missions. You're essentially doing nothing more than fetch quests. Combat is definitely passable but also lacks in variety. In my opinion, this game is better played via co-op instead of solo due to the constant XP grind. Despite it's shortcomings, I would still recommend playing Dead Island Definitive Edition despite the fact that I have no motivation to continue playing myself. I simply cannot finish my playthrough due to sheer boredom with the mission structure and repetitive nature of the campaign. The foundation is solid but it needs a little more variety and effort applied to the rest of the game's mechanics.

Completionists avoid. One collectible ID card is glitched inside a building with doors that don't open. Some collectibles are inside zones you can't return to, so if you happened to miss one you'll have to play finish the game and play through to that part again to get it because collectible progress is not shared between characters. There is fun to be had with friends but overall a clunky and buggy game that has not aged well and is very frustrating at times.

Dead Island is a game that doesn’t take itself too seriously, and that’s part of its charm. It throws you onto a beautiful tropical resort overrun with the undead, giving you a massive open world to explore, loot, and smash your way through. The melee combat is the real highlight—hacking off limbs, crushing skulls, and improvising weapons keeps every fight satisfying. The RPG elements, from skill trees to weapon upgrades, add depth without overcomplicating things, making progression feel rewarding. Playing solo is fun, but co-op is where the game truly shines, letting you and your friends survive together in chaotic, blood-soaked action.

That said, the game isn’t without its flaws. The story is forgettable, voice acting can be rough, and the missions can feel repetitive after a while. The combat, while fun, sometimes suffers from janky physics and awkward hit detection. Still, if you’re looking for a zombie game that focuses on brutal melee action and open-world exploration rather than pure horror, Dead Island is a great time—especially with friends. It’s not the most polished game, but it delivers exactly what it promises: a fun, mindless, and satisfying zombie-smashing experience.

Dead Island Definitive Edition "Where is the momies? full review.

This game is look like a lite version of dying light mixed with left 4 dead. However, it is better to play this game in co-operation. The story of the game is weak but it still good as it be. The graphics of the game is cool and the weapons is pretty great. the game play is awesome. The game experience would be great if you play it with friends. Also, the game was boring at the beginning., However, the excitement starts from chapter 4 and that was nice. Also, the game is good to play it as a single player but a little boring some times. One of the game disadvantages that the cars get stuck and can't be unstudied "Step bro I'm stucked. can you help me?".

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---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☐ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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☐ 10

🌴🧟 Dead Island Definitive Edition - A Bloody Fun Paradise! 🏝️🔪

If you love open-world zombie action with a mix of RPG elements, Dead Island Definitive Edition is an absolute must-play! Techland did a great job enhancing the visuals, making this version the best way to experience the original cult classic.

✅ Pros:
✔️ Beautiful tropical island setting with upgraded HD textures
✔️ Satisfying melee combat—decapitating zombies never gets old!
✔️ Co-op mode is a blast with friends
✔️ Engaging RPG elements with skill trees and weapon upgrades
✔️ Tons of side quests and loot to discover

❌ Cons:
❌ Some janky animations, but nothing game-breaking
❌ Story isn't the strongest, but the gameplay makes up for it

Whether you're a returning fan or a first-timer, this edition is the perfect way to experience the chaos of Banoi. If you enjoy zombie-smashing fun with a tropical twist, give it a shot!

🔗 Check out the gameplay here: https://youtu.be/D5dTbwjtMDQ

Final Verdict: 8.5/10 - A gory, fun, and addictive zombie adventure! 🧟🔥

Loving it so far. Has some jank from that 360 era but a pure romp for 7 euro when compared to what AAA is bring out for 70 quid.

Very satisfying game, graphics look lovely for a game almost 10 years old and Gameplay is just a blast. In a time when every game was guns, this is all melee. I'm passing no heed of the story or the characters and just enjoying my slashing and stabbing as I get some Russian bimbo some champaggin 10/10 They don't make games just for the lulz like this anymore

I hate the infected so much. if u are unemployed and have a potato pc that cant play current gen games, this is a good time burner. buy it only when on discount tho

It's a good Dead Island game, I consider it better than Riptide because I feel that Riptide is simply a copy and paste of the original game, It's pretty decent to play and spend time on, I've probably spent more than a hundred hours on it on Playstation, and I still like it

Fully locks my game on a black screen and doesnt let me terminate the program or even use my mouse. Fuck that

i played both definitive and original on ps3 and ps4, i have prob over 1000 hours combined maybe more, i used to be a big dead island fan, i remember coming home on a school day & launching this on my ps3 and playing with randoms and stuff, man, i miss the old days. if a remake instead of a remaster does come out for this game i'd prob jump on it right away.

It is a very good open world zombie game, when it came out it was the best among all the other 2010-2015 video games, I would 100% recommend it if you are looking for a story game that is based on an outbreak zombie virus :D

Dead Island: Definitive Edition is a zombie game with open world elements.

Something I'd like to note before writing out this review. I played this game a total of Three times, but each play session was spanned out by a few years in between each run. Originally I had played this game back on the Xbox 360 and loved it. Then I replayed this game in 2018 when i bought it for the PC (I also never wrote a review for it at that time, whoops!), and so feeling nostalgic once again I played it one more time in 2025.

For the story; it was good, nothing mind blowing. Something else to mention, the DLC for this game does go into more details; story wise, for characters who were mentioned and shown at the end of the game. So if you wanted to know more, I'd recommend playing that too.

The game has a total of four chapters, and for each chapter they separate themselves into several different areas. Each area is large, so exploring is encouraged. Along with each area there are a ton of main and side quests to complete as your adventure goes on, and there are plenty of collectibles to collect along the way as well.

Traversing in this game is 50/50. I say this mostly since you'll be running around most of the time to get a good majority of your quests completed, and if you don't like having to constantly backtrack it can be a bit of a slog. There are portions of this game, where driving a vehicle can occur, however it does stop briefly once you reach a certain point in the story. Which does suck since some quests will send you pretty far out to get a certain quest line done, only to then force you to run all the way back. Fast traveling does also make an appearance and does remedy some parts, but there are just a few of them in the game and there mostly used at a few instances for backtracking.

The combat in this game is probably where i spent most of my time in this game. I would spend way too much time just fighting zombies and not focusing on quests given to me because i either wanted to level up my character or to see what kind of havoc could be caused with a single new melee weapon. Tons of weapons to find, along with blueprints that are scattered around the island which then in turn can be used to create new gear that can give you a slight edge in the next fight to come.

I will also mention this as well, the game is old, so it isn't going to be perfect. There are at times bugs that will occur, but they aren't detrimental to the game that it would ruin the experience. Examples of this would be; certain walls are missing during certain areas (The Prison), running is a bit clunky, almost like rubber banding was happening (could of just been me though, but it wasn't enough to keep me from playing), or a specific developer weapon (A special blueprint; for a head exploding weapon) which would cause the textures of armored zombies to fly off, turning them completely white and revert them back to their single zombie base model. Although the last one is kind of funny, it's nothing that will cause a game crash, but i felt i should mention it in case anyone plays this game and runs into any of this.

Overall, I liked this game! Sure, there are a few minor things that did bug me at times, but it never ruined the experience. I still had just as much fun as I did the last Two times i played this game, so that has to say something i suppose.
Would i recommend it to people to play? Yes, i would. It's a good Zombies game, and you can play it solo or with friends, entirely up to you.

One of the most OG open world zombie games with a decent linear story. Played the original on Xbox when it first came out and it brings back all the memories of falling in-love with zombie games all over again. For being a 10 years old remake it still holds up to most games, with the old graphics being slightly noticeable. But for its age just like Dying Light, there's something about the atmosphere and world building that leaves you in a sense of awe.

Tones of side missions along-side the main story and 'stumble upon' style missions which encourages you to roam about to find them. While there is a linear story with the side missions you can take a break from the main story at any point and just walk about the map doing what you like - which gives you a breaths of fresh air when you want to take a step back.

More than anything else the fighting mechanics and weapons are the key part of why this series/Dying Light excel. Techland made fighting zombies inherently amazing with the ability to use blades to randomly lop of zombies arms making them change their attacks or a randomised stat to insta-kill a zombie by lopping off their head. The weapon sounds and blunt weapons are just as fun.

Everything about the combat system feels fluid and smooth, which throughout most zombie games I've played not many can get right. L4D being one of the only other zombie games I can think of to fit the same smoothness.

Always wanted to slaughter some people!! The difficulty makes the game even more fun, sometimes you even gotta think of some tacticts. The story line is really interesting and the intrigue makes you want to continue the story.

Very good game overall. I enjoy the continuity after beating the game, the fact that you have a storage (Jen) that you can store weapons for other characters in, and that the game feels less boring as you get stronger, instead of the other way around.

Boring gameplay, horrible pacing, repetive as fuck. Nonsensical story. Terrible graphics that aged like milk.

Way too long. I slogged through until the end, giving no fucks about what was happening.
The skills have close to zero impact on gameplay.

The best part was in the beginning, the resort enviroment looks good, that's about it.

I'm sorry but gave this game too many chances for it to be good, quite all the time I was waiting for it to be better, but I didn't really get to that part, did I?
The main thing I hate in here is how absolutely slow and stiff the movement in here is and how boring fighting the zombies can get with such limited options to fight. I picked the character with a buff to firearms which are unlocked in the second act, and I waited all that time just to get my hands on some rifles or even just some pistols and I gotta say, I got so disappointed when I discovered how pathetically weak they are against zombies and how impractical they are in the actual gameplay.
I also discovered pretty early on that just throwing the weapon u're holding is pretty op. Just to compare, I throw some weapon on the zombie's body and it one-hits it, but I've got to land 4 headshots with a pistol that's "supposed" to deal 2.5x more damage than previously said weapon to kill one zombie?
Not only that, I grinded f**king 20k$ to buy a rifle early on, to be "fully prepered" for harder missions... well rifle is pretty much as bad as the pistol but with faster fire rate.
I really tried to hang on to this game and enjoy it, especially that I remember it to be "good" when I played it a little on xbox360 when I was a kid and I'm after playing Dying Light 1 and 2 which I enjoyed VERY much, and can proudly say that Dying Light 1 is one of my favorite games of all time. I had really high hopes knowing that this game is from the same studio and most likely had a big role in a process of creating Dying Light, but after all, I've been disappointed by it and lost my time just waiting for it to get better.
I guess Techland after realising this game and getting all the feedback about the terrible movement in it, decided to lock in and created a game with literally some of the best parkour mechanics in gaming history.

I highly recommend Dead Island, this game is great for lovers of zombie slaying, it's always good to get your daily frustration out on zombies, and plus the story is super good, I beat this on the PS3 when I played it, when I was younger, but now that I'm back, Dead Island is gonna beg for mercy!

It just plain never stops being fun.

This has always been one of my favorite games ever since its release, and after revisiting years later I'm still amazed at how much there is to do, see, and collect in this game. I can easily complete a play-through and sign up for another round.

One of my favorite Zombie games -- I had an epic time playing with friends, and will absolutely be getting back to it. The mechanics can be a little janky in the beginning, but once you get used to how everything works, then it is fun and smooth sailing. Good and compelling story-line along with it, I would say it will be a struggle to find a zombie-game as good as this one.

Great game, I recommend it, preferably for two or more players, as it will be boring and slow to play alone. Downsides: the game is short and has few zombies, but even in 2025, you can have fun playing it with friends.

tbh its nice for casual gameplay but everything is really repetive and there is very little challenge. you can walk past most of the challenge and its kill and move on. theres zero depth to the story. but i was looking for something casual butttt. sigh. and getting multiiplayer is challenging, i wish there was more of it. i had a mic but it didnt work for the game. hello, suggestions?

This game was the first zombie game I ever played. Years later, I got it on my PC and sat down in my chair to play. I ended up playing for 11 hours straight and didn't even realize it It's an absolute 10 out of 10 game.

8/10

I've you've played any Borderlands game you know what to expect here when it comes to the Class-building elements and loot. They are all very well implemented (along with a crafting/durability system for weapons). That said, the actual gameplay is unlike any other game I have played.

Its fairly slow, with heavy emphasis on stamina management, and picking your fights. A group of zombies of 4+ is lethal if you don't use the terrain and crowd control effectively. Most of my early game consisted of jump-kicking everything down, before attacking them, but its very stamina intensive to do that so you have to stay on your toes.

The plot isn't anything interesting, its pretty L4D.

The setting was novel at the time of the original's release, but by now it's been done a few times more for people not to appreciate that. Still, sunny beaches/jungles and zombies in bikinis and hawaiian shirts is fun.

The mouse sensitivity for guns is whack though, the game suffers from the same console-to-pc port issues that many games from the time do.

This game is absolutely dated. It's a product of its' time for better or for worse. If you can get behind some 360 era jank then give this game a go. I remember trying it back in the day and not vibing with it. Now that I'm a bit older, I really like what this game has done. In a time when everything was so heavily focused on guns it makes guns practically useless. The melee has a lot of weight to it that not many games from the time did. There are certainly aspects I wish were improved but taking everything at face value I have to say this is a fairly unique experience. I would imagine with a full party of four that this game would be a real blast.

una tra i migliori giochi zombie al mondo. ha un gameplay divertente e aperto

Good ideas, awful execution.

I played the character that specialized in using firearms so that is what I will focus my review on.

First and worst:
-Awfully implemented *forced* aim assist that *CANNOT* be turned off! this allegedly also applies for the Dead Island Riptide (The Sequel).
Basically your crosshair or sights slow to a crawl when you are aiming at an enemy, makes it next to impossible to hit.

-Bad hit detection/spread/accuracy
Taking time to line up headshots is entirely pointless because they just aren't a thing, you deal the same damage no matter where you hit with a chance at scoring critical hits.
basically there is no reward for skilled aiming (which is next to impossible because of the forced A.A.)

-Bad Loot/stat creep/progression
crates or world loot as well as vendors are usually stocked with absolute garbage, the few weapons that are good are quickly turned useless by levelling up.

+Great atmosphere and vibes in the first chapters and the hotel
+Laid the foundations for better games in its genre