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MediaBeast: Dead Island Review

MediaBeast:"Dead Island is a great game. Does it have its fair share of bugs? Yes! Could this game have done better if it was delayed for a bit? Yes! Is Dead Island fun? Yes....."

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gw4k4602d ago

Holy crap you are really late to the review party!
Mediabeast? Oh that explains it.

One of those blogs. Heck, you probably just got the money to buy this game.

MysticStrummer4602d ago

"fair share of bugs"? This is the buggiest game I've ever played by far. It's fun when it works, but I tried to play some co-op with a friend last night and gave up because the game kept freezing about every two or three minutes. I'd be done with the story by now if the autosave worked like it's supposed to. The visual bugs are minor compared to all the weird and irritating things that happen while playing. I keep hoping another patch will show up before I either finish the game or get mad and throw it away, but as of now my review score is still a 5/10.

shayol33t4601d ago

Honestly, did you pirate it? Because it has been patched multiple times and is quite playable atm.

MysticStrummer4601d ago

Nope I'm playing the PS3 version, which I bought on release day. It's been patched once, and the patch made things worse. Online co-op wasn't freezing before the patch. I understand the PS3 version is the buggiest of all, but the fact remains this is the buggiest game I've ever played and it's not even close.

MysticStrummer4601d ago

I've lost hours and hours of progress because of the autosave. I've had weapons either vanish out of my inventory or sit there blinking on the ground while I try in vain to pick them up. One good automatic rifle was gone from my inventory when I stepped away from the workbench where I had just paid about 25k to upgrade and modify it. I've had my truck vanish out from under me while I was driving it. The Infected will run at me, run through a wall, and sometimes pop up out of the ground in front of me. Sometimes they just disappear. I lost access to a weapon mod because the game didn't give it to me as a quest reward. Like I said, before the patch the co-op ran smoothly, though with the bugs I mentioned before. Now the game literally freezes every 2-5 minutes when I play co-op, and sometimes when I play single player. I'm not making this stuff up. Same things are happening to my friend who bought the game to play with me. The most irritating thing is the lost progress, followed by the vanishing weapons.

One-X4601d ago

Mystic, I have the PS3 version with the update and I haven't once came across anything like that, and I've strictly played co-op. I can definitely see how annoying the lost weapons would be considering it does take a while to get money to upgrade and repair. But I am halfway through the game, and the only bugs I've encountered in DI are freezing bugs and the save one. The save one has only happened once and I lost 10 minutes of gameplay, but yeah, you do know there's a way to get the game to save right?

You switch the controls to analog, enter out of options and it will save. Temporary fix for now. Also, the freezing bugs happened mostly whilst driving, we also had a freeze problem when we punched a certain zombie which was weird. But apart from the co-op matchmaking, I haven't found it to be as buggy as some people say.

Buggiest game you've ever played.... slight over-exaggeration. I've played buggier games, even Fallout 3 had freeze issues on the PS3, and it did it often to. Yes the save thing is terrible at the moment, but you should focus on the gameplay, in my opinion it's simply unfair to critisize a game mainly on bugs that are going to be fixed. I haven't had so much fun in a game in a long long while, for me Dead Island is amazing.

Dropdeadll4601d ago (Edited 4601d ago )

@MysticStrummer
you probably lost some of your guns because you had a full inventory and don't move around while the map is loading or else a nearby zombie might pop out of nowhere

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Dead Island 2 devs believe a Dead Island remake would be a “mistake”

We might be in the age of remasters, but it doesn't look like the Dead Island 2 devs believe remaking the original game is the right move for the series.

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Duke19405d ago

but remakes require far less effort for these companies and they can still charge $70 for them!

Feel like everyone makes fun of Skyrim re-releasing like 18 times yet applaud these remasters elsewhere. Would much prefer NEW games

CrimsonWing69404d ago

Making sequels really is the way to go. Otherwise we'll be stuck playing only the first entry, forever!!!

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Dead Island's 2011 reveal is still the best game trailer of all time

Josiah Motley of KnowTechie writes: "I love video game trailers. While I don’t believe they are an integral part of a game’s success (especially these days), there’s something about a well-produced trailer that really just reminds me why I like video games."

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Exvalos816d ago

Also the most misleading of all time

SDuck816d ago

How so? Because it focused on a family that you see dying? (innocent question, haven't gotten a chance to play any Dead Island game yet)

aconnellan816d ago

More the tone of it - the tone of the trailer suggested something personal and dramatic, but the game was very much reminiscent of Left 4 Dead in that you were just there to kill zombies and nothing more

Ashby_JC816d ago

You play as a singular character there is no family involved at all in the game. Still a stand out trailer that I remember clearly from years ago.

Fntastic816d ago (Edited 816d ago )

Did you not like the game?

I remember going in expecting a L4D style of game, but the excessive camera swaying honestly made me feel ill, and it's rare for a game to do that to me, still don't understand why the need for anything other than maybe a subtle slight camera movement when doing melee attacks etc. Other than that i didn't really find the game that good. In all honesty i had more enjoyment out of DNF, and i know many people crap on that game.

BioShockGX815d ago

I still remember this misleading controversy

RickRoland816d ago

It’s the music. It’s perfect. I agree with this for sure, it is well choreographed….unfortunately the game didn’t live up to the trailer.

brewin815d ago

Maybe not, but it was still a good game. I liked how they expanded things with Dying Light, but Dead Island was a great first attempt! I really liked all the Easter eggs and homages to other horror franchises sprinkled throughout. Sure it was a little cheesy and over there top, but it was a good happy medium between Far Cry and Fallout with zombies.

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EmperorDalek816d ago

I'm gonna heavily disagree with that.

CrimsonWing69816d ago

Have you ever seen any of the MGS 3 or MGS 4 trailers? Those blow this out of the water for me.

TricksterArrow816d ago

They require prior knowledge of the franchise, tho. You show this trailer to anyone, and I mean ANYONE, and they can understand what's going on and relate to the family dynamic almost immediately. No need to know who is Snake, or Fox Hound, or Raiden, or Metal Gear...

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Top 10 Xbox 360 Games That Need to be Backward Compatible

Kevin F. from Link Cable Gaming writes: "Many of the best Xbox 360 games are playable on the Xbox One and Series X|S consoles. Some even with some enhanced visuals and performance. Unfortunately, not every game from the Xbox 360 library has received this glorious feat of being able to be played on more modern Microsoft consoles."

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Orchard1030d ago

Max Payne 3 needs to be on that list.

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autobotdan1030d ago

The Spider-man games will never happen. The xbox 360 Marvel Ultimate Alliance games have a better chance of happening than Spider-man titles but won't happen. The Xbox One Ultimate Alliance games delisted years ago

Vits1030d ago

Yeah... you can totally forget about those entries that got delisted because of licensing issues. Those are not happening.

MetalProxy1029d ago

Wait everything isn’t BC? You guys act like it is lol

porkChop1029d ago

Almost all of the games people want to play are BC, and that's a hell of a lot better than having none available.

ApocalypseShadow1029d ago (Edited 1029d ago )

Almost all the games people want to play? Not true. Majority picks screw over the minority who have games collecting dust. Metal is right. Fans make it seem that it's all. 39/997 games from OG Xbox is NOT all. 568/2154 from 360 is NOT all. But you guys play it up like it is.

And from my count, there are 4,000+ PS4 BC games on PS5 that I see. And almost every VR game. Series X has no Kinect games or Kinect 2. But you played that up too. No more dancing.

As for the article, some of the BC games make sense. The others with Spider-Man aren't happening.

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