Thanks to the developer’s patented FLESH system (Fully Locational Evisceration System for Humanoids) your attacks cause more visible, gruesome impact damage, that’s reflective of the weapon and area you strike. Regardless, the heightened B-movie goofiness helps make any awkward writing blend into the overall tone, where sequences hop between drop kicking zombies into acidic swimming pools and performing specific kills for viral-obsessed social media stars.Īt its core, the sequel is still a repetitive sprint of slaying zombies with customisable weapons and watching the role-playing stats go up, but combat has been improved with more options and an extra emphasis on bloody, gory splatter.
Whoever you choose, the campaign is the same aside from their unique character dialogue, which does make interactions with non-player characters feel disjointed at times, in order to accommodate all six personalities. If the original buckled under the expectations placed on it, Dead Island 2 has the benefit of crawling up from the bottom – and the sequel manages to rise from the grave in surprisingly robust and polished shape. Given the success of Dying Light and its sequel, Dead Island, while still having some fans, felt like a franchise that had missed its moment – a game destined only to be remembered for failing to live up to the promise of its cinematic debut trailer. After years of nothing, Dambuster Studios took over in 2019, at a point when all momentum for a sequel had dropped to a deadening pulse. The sequel to 2011’s role-playing zombie slasher, from the creators of Dying Light, was supposed to be released eight years ago and be developed by Yager, only for them to be dropped and replaced by Sumo Digital in 2016. Dead Island 2 – worth the wait (pic: Deep Silver)Īfter almost a decade, Dead Island returns with a sequel that feels surprisingly unscathed by its long stay in development hell.įew games have changed development hands like Dead Island 2.
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