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Dead Island Riptide Could Be Cool. Or Not

Posted on Saturday, September 1 @ 08:45:00 Eastern by sara_gunn


Dead Island is a strange little game. Not bad, but something about it was a little… off. I wanted to like it but, in the end, it was just a bit… meh.
 
So next year we’re getting Dead Island Riptide. According to Joystiq, “The game will return the focus to close combat from the latter gunplay found in Dead Island, with a new weather system and upgrades to the engine of the first game. The weather system will now include flooding and lovely trips down zombie infested rivers on little boats. There are also forts that need to be reinforced and barricaded.”
 
Riptide takes place on a neighboring island, and is not a sequel in the truest sense. Think of it as more of an Operation Raccoon City. Hopefully it will be better than that.
 
It’s hard to say how a game like this will turn out; it could be a good chance for Deep Silver to make some improvements to the formula, to prove they’re ready to make a full sequel. Or it could be a god-awful piece of crap.
 
Either way, don’t pay full price for it. Even the first one’s not worth that much.
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  • Noritama
    Noritama

    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Sep 1st, 2012 at 9:07 am
    The main question is will the story actually be good?
  • NecroWolf
    NecroWolf

    Joined: Oct 2005
    Posted: Sep 1st, 2012 at 9:09 am
    I enjoyed Dead Island a lot, and thought it was worth every penny I spent on it on launch day. Then again, I enjoy Zombie games, at least, good ones. Dead Rising, and Dead Island are among my favorites. I would like Left 4 Dead more, but it isn't my style of zombie-game, still a solid game though. To each their own I suppose.
  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez

    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Sep 1st, 2012 at 9:46 am
    oh god operation racoon city was bad

    Dead island had potential and was fun in very short bursts but the quests were very lacking. Here is another game that is a lot better with coop I would have preferred the option to add bots even if they just followed right by you. the playing at the enemy campaign was kinda interesting.
  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez

    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Sep 1st, 2012 at 9:46 am
    oh god operation racoon city was bad

    Dead island had potential and was fun in very short bursts but the quests were very lacking. Here is another game that is a lot better with coop I would have preferred the option to add bots even if they just followed right by you. the playing at the enemy campaign was kinda interesting.
  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Sep 1st, 2012 at 10:44 am
    I heard once they changed the stamina it was terrible to try and hit people, stomp, and run since you were always empty. And somehow a beach ball was a 1 hit kill. If the game was less buggy Id buy it Steam tho, cant deny it did look good but that backwards playing trailer they released early was too good for this game and it was all downhill from there.
  • NecroWolf
    NecroWolf

    Joined: Oct 2005
    Posted: Sep 1st, 2012 at 11:20 am
    I never understood this whole trailer thing, sure the trailer was misleading, but so is pretty much every trailer out there, even a hands-on demo can be misleading. It's the same for movies.
  • inferno003
    inferno003

    Joined: Jul 2012
    Posted: Sep 1st, 2012 at 11:31 am
    hell yeah ill be buying this!

    the 1st game was really good... it gets far too much hate! it is a really fun coop experience with great graphics... it has great physics & atmosphere! the rpg elements added a lot of depth... the only real down side is the story, it takes to long to get going and when it kicks in its really nothing more than average... but either way its a really fun game, im excited for the sequel!

    as far as people being let down because of the phenomenal trailer... you know the trailer that was so good LIONSGATE bought the right to make a movie based on it...
    well, i was letdown too... but i still decided to give the game a chance & while it wasnt what i was expecting it was still a really fun game...

    best way to describe it is borderlands with condemned combat and amazing graphics & zombies!
  • Icepick
    Icepick

    Joined: Dec 2002
    Posted: Sep 1st, 2012 at 3:02 pm
    the physics were ****, I've never seen shittier driving in a current gen game

    that being said, I still managed to enjoy the game, wasn't a triple A for sure, but was alright to kill time
  • Icepick
    Icepick

    Joined: Dec 2002
    Posted: Sep 1st, 2012 at 3:13 pm
    the physics were ****, I've never seen shittier driving in a current gen game

    that being said, I still managed to enjoy the game, wasn't a triple A for sure, but was alright to kill time
  • inferno003
    inferno003

    Joined: Jul 2012
    Posted: Sep 1st, 2012 at 3:43 pm
    i actually enjoyed the driving, so did my friends... the handling want that bad, most people are just mad you have to drive in 1st person... i personally like it that way, i liked it in farcry , i like it in battlefield & i like it in DEAD ISLAND...
  • Ivory_Soul
    Ivory_Soul

    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Sep 1st, 2012 at 10:40 pm
    Dead Island had lots of potential, but the missions were bad, and there really wasn't any direction in the game. The worst part were the stories and characters. Couldn't give a rat's A about either.
  • cereal13killer
    cereal13killer

    Joined: Nov 2008
    Posted: Sep 3rd, 2012 at 10:32 pm
    The big question is was dead Island fun? I had more fun with it than either L4D/2 and most other zombie games, mainly because I didn't have huge expectations of the game and I had friends to play it with. Like every other game Dead Island had it's problems (as listed above, and others), but it was a lot of fun, which is more than can be said about a lot of other games in a similar genre. If the studio is smart and improves on what was good, and fixes what was bad, it will be a worthwhile game.

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