Dead Island
 

Don't know much about this game, other than the fact it's only for PC and 360, it has zombies, and is made by some polish developer. But Holy crap, this is an awesome teaser:
http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/02/16...cement-trailer


And an article:
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/115/1150368p1.html

wow, looks pretty decent. It is on PS3 too apparently.

That trailer was something :o

Definitely going to be looking for this game.

Just read through the article.

It will be for all 3 systems.
It will be FPS/Action-RPG.
It will be story based
It will have 4 player Co-op play.


Sounds like they took Left 4 dead and changed the formula.

More melee weapons and less firearms/ammo.

I like the challenge. If it have a chainsaw, I'm happy. :rock:

:arrgh!: be good if they get the dismemberment right too, as in bits come off where you slash them lol

Yep, I'm interested. Kinda weird considering I neither like FPS games or zombies in particular. Open world sounds good though, combined with survival gameplay it should be interesting, in theory at least. :hmmm:

Trailer is excellent... until the facebook link at the very end. That completely killed the mood for me, for some reason. :doh:

(same stuff basically: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011...t-dead-island/)

Some screenshots: http://kotaku.com/#!5766354/this-is-...like/gallery/2

Actually ashamed to link to Kotaku nowadays. :oops:

that is one of the best trailers I've have ever seen. I can really feel it. damn great stuff. Good on them. :yeah:

I actually felt bad for that kid.....

I do believe that is probably the hardest hitting trailer I have ever seen...

Just....well, words don't work for it.

:yep: IMO the music is what really makes it.

DOUBLE POST

Looks like someone made a Shaun of the Dead Island mashup:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR9WsSTAqvg

Yahtzee:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/vide...94-Dead-Island

Yatzee nailed it on what the game was influenced by. It takes A lot from borderlands, throws in the "get creative with your melee weapons" from dead rising 2 (im guessing on that, never played it), and has some definate left for dead influence. (There's even a achievement called Right4Life) but, aside from yazee's compairison there,. *I* happen to really like it. Hell, im hooked on it. I guess zombie shooters just haven't gotten old to me yet. Hell, i was playing killing floor just yesterday.

Anyway, here's what i like from what i've played thus far:

Open world exploration. (IE, NOT a rail shooter. )

A bit of survival aspect to it. I like picking up pipes, wrench's, boat oars, and using them tell they break, throwing it away, and grabbing something else. It's almost like a bar room brawl. You can also customize weapons. Generally speaking you have to scavange to survive.

Can be creative with combat, it seems fluid, and attempts a little more realism. For instance kicking is definatly handy, but its more like a combo opener. You can for example, doing a flying kick with one character, but it eats half your stanima, but its a garunteed knockdown. If you pick up a lead pipe, use it enough and it starts to bend and be blood caked. Eventually it just becomes unusable.


Bottom line in my book is, if your not tired with zombie games , hate COD styled rail shooters, prefer open world exploration, and if you liked borderlands, you'll probably like dead island. On the other hand, if your bored with and tired of zombies as the bad guy, you might not like it so much.

Haven't played it myself, but have watched few Let's Plays and it looks kinda cool.

Especially the detail to combat/weapons is nice. :yep:

Might have to pick this up later on. :hmmm: