It’s also still as good fun as it ever was. In this version the open world hasn’t changed, the areas take a while to traverse on foot but you still have to load between sections, the missions are still the same, and the enemies are are as deceptively tough as ever. Returning to Banoi and experiencing the zombie outbreak like this really does show what the studio had intended with the initial release, and where a large chunk of inspiration for Dying Light came from.
Dead Island Definitive Edition does what it says in the title – gives us the definitive version of the game which means a stable framerate, less buggy AI, tweaked visuals, and all the DLC that was released… including a popular mod that appeared on the PC version. Techland worked hard to fix issues with the original release, and to provide DLC that expanded nicely on the campaign, and in the end gave us a respectable game. It also shoved aside the genre staple of firearms whilst simultaneously pulling in some of the crazy crafting of Dead Rising, giving a reason for scavenging for anything that would add some more heft to a hammer, or menace to a machete.
A clever use of the analogue sticks to manually control your slicing and pummelling motions meant that dismemberment become a skill rather than just a button push, and a full drop in/drop out co-op for up to four players ensured that you didn’t have to brave the hordes alone if you weren’t particularly co-ordinated. It’s fair to say it had a few issues, but that didn’t stop it from being a lot of fun. When it finally burst through the letterbox we were treated to a fully first person hack and slash zombie adventure with some great ideas, nice mechanics, and a lot of bugs. Originally releasing in 2011, Dead Island wowed us with its infamous CGI trailer-in-reverse, building intrigue and excitement before it finally made it’s way into our living rooms. On top of that they’ve found time to develop a side scrolling action game in Dead Island: Retro Revenge. In the down time since Dying Light, or maybe even in their lunch breaks, the team have ported Dead Island and Dead Island: Riptide into the latest version of their proprietary Chrome engine so that we’re presented with the last gen games in current gen visuals. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Of all the games we’d want to be remastered, there’s probably very few of us that would have Dead Island at the top of the list, but Techland have decided to do just that. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.