Although there’s a somewhat basic story, punctuated with occasional cutscenes, the vast majority of time revolves around a single motivation - you’re trapped on a resort island full of zombies, and you have to kill them all, while completing inane quests and looking for a way off the rock. In stark contrast to the game’s marketing, Dead Island isn’t much for exposition.
Which character you pick depends more on your playstyle as opposed to whether or not you’re interested in the rather flat personalities. The cast represents a vague collection of “classes” with their own unique skills and upgrades. Whether or not this was a wise decision depends on one thing … how awesome you think poisoned katanas and exploding knives are.ĭead Island (PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 )ĭead Island gives players control over one of four characters - Xian Mei, a Chinese ex-cop who specializes in bladed weapons, Purna, a bodyguard with a predilection for firearms, Sam B, a rapper who uses blunt objects, and Logan, a former football star who’s deadly with throwing weapons. Instead, Dead Island almost completely abandons narrative in favor of unadulterated violence, co-operative combat, and roleplaying elements. Those with even a small degree of cynicism could have guessed Techland would fall short of its conceptually ambitious opening gambit. The video, which showed a family beset by zombies while a hauntingly beautiful refrain played, led one to believe that Dead Island would be an emotional roller coaster that touched on the human side of undead apocalypse. With its debut trailer, Techland set itself the impossible goal of living up to self-generated hype on a massive scale.
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