Dead Island had everyone’s attention since their amazing cinematic trailer that came out of the blue and stunned us with it’s reverse girl zombie family story. After an announcement stated that such event would not actually occur in the game, claims arose to whether the game would actually be decent.

A different Dead Island slowly emerged from the chunks of gameplay released every now and then until a full picture of how the game would actually play came alive (20 mins of gameplay). An open world zombie game of epic proportions, consciously or unconsciously combining elements from successful games like Fallout, Left 4 Dead and Dead Rising and making something unique, huge and (hopefully) a lot of fun.

Issues that I see that might hold the game back from GOTY?

From gameplay we’ve seen the faces of characters in the game look good, but aren’t super realistic, they are stylised. As long as other elements of the game bring you into the game that shouldn’t be a problem.

The voice acting seen in the demo leaves a little to be desired, but to be honest Techland is a Polish developer and I respect the fact that it may have been difficult to understand the nooks and crannies of writing in English for an English-speaking audience.

Comparing a game like Dead Island with Fallout 3 or NV might become commonplace when the game launches and people figure out more about the goals of the game and how it plays in detail. The thing that kept me going back to Bethesda FO games was there were no randomly generated dungeons or houses. Everything had something to discover or a story to unravel, completely optional and engrossing usually created using a combination of voice logs, images, text or physical evidence. Hopefully Techland employs such elements in their game instead of feeding people quest lists and focusing on voice acting to tell you where to go or what to do. It’s the little details that count, and variety.

As a PS3 gamer, the co-op aspect of Dead Island is not necessarily a main draw card for my purchase of the game. So hopefully it has a co-op experience similar to Borderlands where you won’t be penalised for playing on your own. The words co-op and immersive story don’t usually go hand-in-hand, but as far as the gameplay footage shows, playing on your own should be a completely unique experience compared to playing with another.

If Dead Island is to be truly successful then it will aspire and achieve an endless gameplay experience or at the least, playability after the main campaign has finished

That’s pretty much all, I’ll leave full reservations until the game releases next week. Hopefully I’ll get it and have a full review! You can listen to three tracks from the Dead Island soundtrack at this link.

Dead Island (Pub. Deep Silver) releases on the 6th of September 2011 in North America and the 9th of September Globally

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If you played the first game you might notice some changes in Dead Space 2. Isaac will talk this time. He hardly talked in the first game outside of the grunts he made as he was being attacked. In DS2 he will converse with others. This should add to the depth of the narrative. In theory, multiplayer is used to add more value to the game. Hopefully it’s more than the usual round of deathmatch and capture the flag variants. The DeadSpace faithful committ to this game, because of the suspense and narrative that it provides. If the multiplayer is tacked on, it could have the opposite effect and turn people off. it’s too early to tell. Multiplayer could be the hidden gem al la Assassins Creed:Brotherhood.

In 8 days, Isaac will traverse across our consoles in his effort to rid the universe of Necromorphs. Plasma Cutter…Check!

Chainsaw. Rawr.

Valve, developers of such awesomeness as Half Life 2, Portal, Counter Strike and Left 4 Dead – recently announced the newest gameplay mode for the upcoming Left 4 Dead 2.  Scavenge mode pits survivors vs. infected in a race to collect (hence the name, ‘Scavenge’) gas cans and dump them into a generator located in each map.  The more gas the survivors dump, the more points you get.  The infecteds job is – you guessed it – to stop the collection of said gas cans.  Switch sides, rinse and repeat.  Most points wins the round.

The new mode should be shorter than the typical versus mode in the current L4D.  This, and the addition of female boomers, makes L4D2 a must buy for me.  That and the fact that I’ve played every Valve game ever produced.  Check out Giant Bomb for more info.

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I played the demo of Resident Evil 5 and hated it. Having to be a statue while shooting felt fine in Resident Evil IV but now it feels very dated. We have Gears of War and Call of Duty and most importantly, Dead Space. All of them feel better, more fluid. Resident Evil 5 throws cement on your feet. Even the walking and running aspects of the game feel poorly done.

With all that being said, I rented the game so I could play with a friend (Jdsblackbox). I figured I’d get an hour or two in and the poor controls would make me throw in something fun. I was wrong. This game is great. Your inventory carries over from game to game so you can go and replay the earlier levels to collect ammo and the like and even when I’m grinding it out for ammo, I enjoy it. Right now I’m at work typing about it and wishing I was home killing zombies.

It’s a flawed game. The controls could be better. But it’s very fun. So if you’re like me and hated the controls, it’s still worth giving it a shot.

On March 13th, the Stroudburg, PA Best Buy will be making a haunted house. Originally they had planned to have a few workers dress up as zombies. This transformed slowly. They added some mad scientists who were ‘working’ on the zombie virus. Then the idea of the haunted house came to them. Then they went to the local recruiting station to ask for some fatigues. The recruiting station one-upped them and offered soldiers complete with M-16′s firing blanks.


Sounds like it’s turning into quite a party. I work 15 minutes from there so I’m thinking about stopping by. The only downside is that I hated the demo and didn’t want to buy the game…

Hordes of flesh eating Zombies…Check. B-Rated voice acting….Check. Impossible survival odds….Check. The T-Virus makes another appearance in an effort to turn the human race into mindless flesh eating Zombies. Our two favorite sexually tense male/female Zombie eradicating duo, Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield team up for another adventure together in Resident Evil:Degeneration.

Last we saw these heroines was in RE2. Leon and Claire were the last survivors in Raccoon City, due to an outbreak of the G-Virus(a modified T-Virus) that turns humans into the walking dead. Following their survival of Raccoon City, Leon worked for a government organization secretly investigating Umbrella(the company that manufactured the Virus), and Claire joined with a rogue group trying to stop Umbrella.Thus our story begins.

The T-Virus has hit the black market and a terrorists organization has obtained a sample of the virus and threatens to spread it if certain demands aren’t met. In comes the Zombie-wiki -knowing, perennial cool-guy Leon S. Kennedy, sporting his Resident Evil 4 makeover. Complete with leather bomber jacket and male model hairstyle, Leon is ready to take on hordes of the walking dead accompanied by a Desert Eagle and a few clips. Side Note – This is the war hardened Leon from RE4 and not the Rookie Cop Leon from RE2. The movie unfolds similar to the games, which will please Resident Evil fans. The plot is easy to follow for first time watchers, and is intriguing enough to encourage a Wikipedia search afterward. Noticeably absent is a cheesy love story. Oddly, love stories are synonymous with horror movies and survival horror games. There are hints of attraction, but the lack of affection holds the movie on it’s roller coaster track and keeps the excitement steady.

For the Zombie lover, this is a great addition to your collection in preparation for the Zombie-pocalypse. For the casual observer, this is a must add on the Netflix queue.

Nazi zombies! Castle Wolfenstein revisited! Videosift is showing footage of the bonus mode in Call of Duty 5, accessible when you beat the single player campaign. Much like ‘horde mode’ in the new Gears of War, waves of baddies come at you as you try and shoot them. This game just went to a must buy for me!

Players also earn money in this mode to upgrade weapons and to buy barricades, similar to Counter Strike.

Just when you think that Resdent Evil 4 is done making it’s rounds on each system, it’s being rumored that there might be another version being released on the Xbox360/PS3. Last week it was posted in the forums of ‘ the horror is alive ‘ website, that the poster was sent the box art by a friend that worked for Capcom. The Game will add Hunk, a hidden charater in RE2, along with Ada Wong and Leon Kennedy. Hunk’s missions will be similar to Ada Wong’s side story in the original Resident Evil 4. The timing of this seems to be a bit peculiar, due to the rumor surfacing around April Fool’s day. Keep your ears open to see if Capcom says anything about this rumored title.