You’d be forgiven for glancing past early PR material for Dead Island, palming it off as yet another zombie outbreak game. Capcom recently gave us Dead Rising 2, and gamers have been well fed on Resident Evil games over the past few years. However, these games were largely action driven, and lacked the depth that some gamers would have liked.
Although little is known about Dead Island at this point, there are a few telltale signs that it just might offer gamers something more, or at least something different.
Developed by Techland (Call of Juarez, Nail’d) and published by Deep Silver (S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky, Risen, Sacred), Dead Island will play out on a tropical holiday resort which becomes infested by zombies. The game was actually announced back in 2007, but has since slipped under the radar. Until today that is, with Deep Silver releasing the first official CG trailer. Gameplay and story details emerged along with Dead Island’s debut in 2007 but with the game going under the radar for so long, it remains to be seens if any of this has changed.
The game will focus on a specific story within the context of a zombie ravaged tropical paradise, and when it was announced back in 2007, Techland emphasised that there would be a dynamic, branching narrative and sandbox gameplay.
Unlike most zombie slashers, the action in Dead Island will take place from a first person perspective, and will have RPG elements. The combat will mostly be melee, and there will be built in 4 player drop in/drop out co-op.
Deep Silver released the reveal trailer exclusively to IGN today, and the video has been making waves around the internet ever since because of its emotionally provocative content. It is definitely worth watching, and if we weren’t keeping an eye on Dead Island before, we are now.
Also worth checking out is the Dead Island screenshot gallery, although these images date back to the original reveal back in 2007.
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