Xian is the sharp weapons specialist, which means she’s agile and performs ridiculously rapid stabs with various knives, so if you like the idea of turning zombie faces into Swiss Cheese, she will be appealing. Sam B, the blunt weapons expert with the most health, has a plodding, crunching, in-your-face style that becomes increasingly gruesome and brutal until you’re one-shotting zombies with a swing of a sledgehammer and watching their heads explode in a wonderful shower red jelly and brains. The four playable characters seem quite similar early on, but over time they diverge until each one feels very different. While the basics of the melee combat may be reminiscent of The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay or the Condemned series, the rhythm and pacing of it doesn’t feel quite like those other games, and there are significant additions, like weapon throwing, which make the combat truly unlike what most games make boringly familiar.Ībove: Guns do exist in Dead Island, but the ways in which you acquire them may surprise you Sure, the game cobbles together ideas from numerous sources, but the whole feels new, and you always feel like you’re playing Dead Island rather than an imitator: it’s not just Left 4 Dead combined with Far Cry with a sprinkling of Dead Rising. It will dawn on you early in the game that what you’re playing isn’t quite like anything you’ve played before. It means that when you’re traversing the peaceful resort you’ll be snapping your head around like a nervous deer at every moan and groan, and the zombies have a habit of hiding behind shrubbery until you’re right on top of them – a smart design element that circumvents the problem of a sunny setting revealing all before your eyes. Each one can deal significant damage and take plenty of it in turn, so a group of four zombies can put you in a world of hurt quickly. That’s because these zombies are not fodder for your machetes, baseball bats, and meat cleavers. Zombies aren’t exactly everywhere, at least in the traditional sense – there aren’t vast hordes of them like in Dead Rising.
The initial tone is unusual and refreshing in its inherent contradiction: everything is beautiful and tranquil (and banal with its corny resort decorations), but danger oozes through the tranquility. The setting is the sun-bleached resort island of Banoi, with a mysterious outbreak of zombism ruining everyone’s vacation. You'll have to mind your stamina, though - heavier weapons use more stamina, and if you run out your attacks will be worthless
Above: A simple oar is a great early weapon because it has reach.
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