Not only is it a first-person game where you slaughter thousands of zombies, but the game allows each player to pick from four different characters. The first thing that comes to mind when seeing Dead Island is how similar it looks and plays like the Left 4 Dead series. To make the zombie-killing experience more memorable, Techland has given the game a true RPG core similar to what you would find in Fallout, which takes the zombie genre to the next level by allowing advanced character progression and cooperative play online. Set on a graphically stunning open-world island that you might find in another franchise without zombies like Far Cry or Crysis, Dead Island mixes a combat system similar to Left 4 Dead with a weapon system similar to Dead Rising 2.

So does Dead Island live up to the hype created by its memorable trailer or does the actual gameplay kill what could have been the next big zombie franchise?ĭead Island is a game with a beautiful and unique setting, but with most of its core gameplay mechanics taken from other popular games. With an unreleased game that only has a CGI trailer and no details on the story already potentially being made into a movie, it’s easy to see how things could start getting overhyped. The trailer got so much publicity that there was even talk of the game being made into a feature film. Despite the trailer being awesome, it seemed a little strange for there to be so much hype for a brand new IP from a developer who has yet to produce a blockbuster title. It showed no actual gameplay but instead teased a story of a family on vacation that is forced against one another in order to survive a zombie attack.

Although originally announced in 2006, Dead Island stayed under most gamers’ radars until earlier this year in February when Techland released one of the most talked about trailers of all time.

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