Sentences with phrase «better dead island»

All it was is basically a slightly better dead island.

I bought the «special edition» that entitled me to download the DLC for free, well Dead Island was so bad I never bothered.

Not exact matches

Despite some issues Dead Island is a good game that mixes, in a fresh way, lots of different styles (like survival horror, action, first person gaming...).

Dead Island: Riptide takes all of the worst elements of that title, removes some of the better ones and adds a few features that are average at best to create something that is wholly underwhelming.

While Dead Island: Riptide serves the zombie genre well, it doesn't do anything new with it.

You might think that Techland would be well shot of the troubled Dead Island franchise, given that they had such a big hit with Dying Light, but now that Dead Island 2 is no longer being handled by Yager, it seems they wouldn't rule out a return.

For us it turned out well, because being forced to come up with a new IP... We can't just make a Dead Island 2 and change the name; it's got to be something fresh, it's got to be something unique.

Considering the lukewarm reception to Homefront: The Revolution last month, E3 seems like a pretty good time for Deep Silver to remind people that Dead Island 2 is still a thing, doesn't it?

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Wired Magazine, College Humor and G4TV all called it the best video game trailer of all time, with G4TV adding «The Dead Island trailer is the best trailer I have ever seen in my life.

I can't call Escape Dead Island a bad game, but I really can't call it a good game either.

If you are a skeptic or just plain nitpicky about your games, you'll find enough to hate with Escape Dead Island that you are probably better off playing something else.

Both have their appeal, but the current Dead Island framework simply isn't diverse enough to reconcile the two genres, especially not in a well - rounded yet flawed post-launch expansion.

There is no doubt that Dead Island is a good game once you look past all the glitches.

Deep Silver has released more than 200 games since its founding in 2002, and is best known in the United States for publishing the Dead Island and Metro series».

Players who bought and played the original Dead Island should find the changes here welcoming, and we'd even hazard a guess that this may even attract new players as well.

Dead Island 2 is scheduled for release in Spring 2015 from development studio YAGER and will be available on the PS4 and Xbox One, as well as Windows PC.

Well before the holiday rush begins, the first week of September welcomes Resistance 3, Dead Island, and now Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten.

We don't post too many video game trailers here on Film Junk (although we do occasionally discuss them on the Game Junk Podcast), but this new Dead Island teaser trailer clearly seems to be getting a lot of attention within the movie blogosphere as well.

Dying Light Review: This game Failed To Reach Its True Potential, It's A Step Back From Dead Island In Many Areas, Techland could have done it in a better way.

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Sure, these missions soon devolve into tedium as well, but for a brief moment, it is a fresh take on the Dead Island series.

This part is almost exactly like Dead Island right down to having tough zombies that take a fair few hits to bring down, but it does get progressively faster to bring them down as you get through the game and find better weapons.

I probably won't because I think that leveling your character's abilities and equipment is the best part of the Dead Island games, which both became exceedingly dull once I maxed everything out.

Preordered collectors edition of Dead Island from EB a while back, hope it will be good.

The problem is we're remembering the excellent trailer for Dead Island 1 knowing that the resulting game was pants, and now, no matter how good their trailers are we'll expect the worst.

Might have been better to have added Escape Dead Island (despite it's poor reviews) than an endless runner.

Dead Island only came out a few years ago and well, it's not retro.

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In addition, Dead Island has held the # 1 chart position in many global markets including the UK and France as well as on Steam, and will have sold two million units globally to retailers by the end of the week.

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This wouldn't be the first time Dead Island hyped itself with a well produced announcement video.

I thought Dead Island was one of the best games of last year, and I am a fan of their first two Call of Juarez titles (we will pretend the third one didn't exist).

If you don't plan on playing this game co-op, the flimsy storyline and frustration of glitches will prevent you from experiencing the best features of Dead Island.

The first Dead Island was long on good ideas but short on skillful execution, and while there's still a truly great game lurking in there somewhere, Riptide is not it.

For the very best tips and tricks on how to save your brains in Dead Island: Riptide, use our in - depth guide in our FAQs section.

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The cinematic that was clearly in the same vein as the incredibly well - made cinematic trailer for the original Dead Island but wasn't nearly as good?

Dying Light doesn't contain the words «Dead Island» in its title, and yet developer Techland sticks extremely close to its zombie roots: hack the undead horde with melee weapons, invite a few friends, and do your best to survive the invasion.

The level we got a chance to see gameplay for may have been an early prototype for Dead Island 2, but it already looks immensely better than any of the previous Dead Island games.

Soon Dead Island's sequel, Riptide, will be in the stores, so I thought it would be a good time to revisit the hit zombie RPG game.

Other games have still done the same thing better though and apart from the ubiquitous zombies Dead Island's list of unique features is perilously thin, and that was true of the original let alone this obviously rushed cash - in.

By way of comparison, if Borderlands (which some people have said Dead Island is similar to) had made even a third of the effort that Dead Island does in terms of story, maybe I'd have ended up with a better opinion of it.

Along the same lines, one of the things I liked best about the original Dead Island was that whenever I happened upon a survivor, it felt like a surprise.

Years ago, you'd watch Fantasy Island and Love Boat, and you'd find these actors you swore were dead, and you'd watch them and you'd go, «They are as good as ever.

Though mission objectives in the first Dead Island were rarely complex, it helps navigate the herd — the three players in my demo got killed a lot until we started putting the game's teamwork - enriching mechanisms to good use.

- Dead Island: Riptide (9 / 8/8 / 8, 33 points): The only Western game release this week generated praise from Famitsu for the most part, with reviewers scoring the game well above their Western counterparts even though they seemed pretty bored of the concept in the review text.

We also see how his greedy management team of Lou (Ted Levine, «Shutter Island,» but probably best known as the cross-dressing serial killer Buffalo Bill in «The Silence Of the Lambs») and Dan Duva (Jordan Gelber, «Before the Devil Knows You're Dead»), struggle to get him a fight after his recuperation.

Also listed on Amazon France is the Dead Island Double Pack, which includes the aforementioned Complete Edition of Riptide as well as the original Dead Island on PS3 and Xbox 360.

The first two Dead Island games — Dead Island and Dead Island: Riptide — are coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, according to listings from retailer Best Buy.