E3 2012: Dead Island: Riptide Not a Remake, Will be $50 Due To ‘End of Console Generation’

RipTen: During this years annual E3, Deep Silver came out of left field with the surprise announcement of Dead Island: Riptide. Aside from a logo, platform specifications, and a trailer due out over the summer no other details have been shared. As curious as I am, I decided to dig for more information.

[PaladinXII]

Loved the first one. Hoping for good things from Riptide.

[xPhearR3dx]

Same here. Even though the VA was poor and the controls were pretty clunky, it grew on me quickly. Can't wait to see more.

[morganfell]

I will definitely pick this up. However I would rather have heard them say, "It will be $50 because it's worth it."

[Kurylo3d]

I disagree.. personally i thought it was retarded you cant wield a level 25 machete because your level 24, but you can wield a level 23 machete.

I mean like wtf... there both machetes.. why should it matter. Plus the levels never really mattered because teh zombies would become higher level as you gain in level... not as the game progresses, but as you become higher in level. It got real dumb .. real fast... real pointless.

[Tr10wn]

Go get a Wii and get something with mario in it, obviously this game was too hard for you. LOL

[Kurylo3d]

Difficulty was never the problem. The game was too easy and boring. There literally was little to no story. There wasn't any real progression. Nothing had any ramifications. Save a civillian or not... didnt change the game in anyway. Everything in the game could basicaly be skipped for the most part. It was just pointless. Not interesting at all. And i had it on the best platform with the best graphics. PC. And I beat the game hoping for something fun down the road in the game, but nothing was. I felt like a major let down and a major waste of my time. They suckered me into buying that game and giving it a chance. Espeacially with their intro trailer.

The zombies were just boring as well... no real creativity other then the fact that u can chop them up, but no creativity in physics or how they act or react to getting shot in different locations.. except the head. It just was boring all around. I cant stress how NOT fun the game was.. Repetitive is the key word here. You did the same thing all the time. The entire game was the same thing over and over.. And dont get me started on the inventory system. So difficult just to switch out weapons.. u gotta go into your menus and start clickn away. Man was it annoying. Why couldnt i just have an equip button. Why do i need an inventory of 100 weapons to switch out to a smaller inventory of 10 weapons... to get into the game to use those weapons. Lets not forget the breaking of weapons.. dont use ur knife 10 times... u might break it... lol... LAME!

And ill be honest with you. lol. I dont own a wii, but mario games are 100x better then this waste of hard drive space.

[shossofe]

I thought this was how RPG's worked. Just because you do not like RPGs does not make the system retarded.

[Kurylo3d]

well normaly in an rpg.. theres a point to leveling up.. isnt there? I mean area A usually has weaker enemies.. area B might have tough enemies u would want to level up for... This game you level up... and they instantly level up with you... totally nullifying levels. Its like tehres no point to there even being levels.. its the same thing if u were both level 1 ... or if your both level 20... no difference.

Besides... this is a zombie FPS. I mean cmon.

[Tr10wn]

@Kurylo3d
I finish it on 360 and last week bought it for PC with my friends again, the game is a lot of fun and IMO one of the best zombie games out there, i dont see how your zombies didnt react to hits on the legs, arms or head maybe your drivers are outdated or something but they react and for me that was part of the fun, getting a machete and cutting his arms or a hammer to cripple them, the physics react normally, i dont see how anything your are saying is true, i played the game for about 90 hours got 1000/1000 achievements and had a lot of fun playing it didnt saw any problem with physics and almost everything you are whining about is because the game is an RPG and you are lazy, 100 weapons in inventory, weapons breaking those are RPG elements not necessarily true but most of RPG's use those mechanics and lazy people like you can't get around those mechanics, either you play it with no friends or you are not an RPG fan.

[Kurylo3d]

your really missing the point.. its just boring and repetitive. Me and 3 other friends played coop... were done after the 2nd try.

We were bored after the first. Just keep being sent place and bring something back.. sent someplace.. and bring something back. With no resolution... no gain.. no nothing.. it was just feeling like a waste of time after a while. I can understand if doing things for people actually helped u in some way, but it didnt. You didnt get support .. no nothing.

[dead_eye]

You don't really get games do you Kurylo3d.

All games are repetitive if you want to look at them that way.

Oblivion's enemies used to level up with you. I think fallout was the first Bethesda rpg that had enemies level set by the area.

Edit: Oh man it was so much fun just killing zombies in that game.

[Big-Hoss]

I agree dead island was alot of fun.

[CrzyFooL]

ATATATATATATATATATATATATATAAAA AA

http://youtu.be/hoLadZotBuE

[browland1]

I put a ridiculous amount of time into the first one, so I can't wait to see what the next installment has to offer.

[Vagrant]

Interesting.

[ShadowKingpin]

I hope this game works out well.

[Treian]

hopefully they will do better testing before releasing an unfinished game. the save glitch I remember was unbearable.

[MysticStrummer]

No kidding. I had to do large sections of the game 3, 4, even 5 times to get the game to acknowledge that I did them. It got so bad that I was nervous about stopping and losing all my progress. I had quest rewards not show up in my inventory, weapons vanish from my inventory, vehicles vanish while I was driving them, zombies vanish into the ground or into walls. Waaay more bugs than I ever saw in Skyrim. $50 is still too high a price for me to pay after all that nonsense.

[Old McGroin]

Agreed - if the first game wasn't infested in as many bugs as it was then Riptide would be a first day buy for me - this time I'm gonna wait and see as I'm expecting the same result. The first game is still very buggy so if they haven't fixed the first game after nearly 7 months what chance does the sequel have?

[konnerbllb]

The price cut is appreciated. I enjoyed the first game and I'll happily pick this up for ten dollars cheaper.

If only other devs would follow suit..

[MRMagoo123]

i have had no probs with the pirated version :)

[dazreah]

God will you just shut up, no one gives a crap about your pirated versions of anything ok!

[blackhammer]

If you liked it, pay for it, you sack of shit.

[iNFAMOUZ1]

cant wait i loved dead island, i hope riptide brings some chaotic weather

[TopDudeMan]

Will the online work?

[iNFAMOUZ1]

ah dont start online worked perfectly

[TopDudeMan]

Did you play it on the ps3? Still doesn't work to this day.

[Laxman]

TopDudeMan; "ps3"

There's your explaination right there.

[Amplitude]

if the ps3 online doesn't work at all, then how does the online work perfectly...?

[xAlmostPro]

@TopDudeMan

Dude i had this on PS3, it always worked, it was just a bit of a struggle for about the first week. Aka it would take multiple attempts to find people or not kick your friend.

[dead_eye]

never had a problem on the ps3

[dumahim]

Online worked pretty well for me as well on PS3 after the first patch. Played the whole game on co-op.

I liked it, but the game felt rushed as the farther you got into the game, the less stuff there seemed to be. Like near the end in the prison, it was like just rush through big empty areas with zombies placed in all the usual places. If it was rushed, that would explain some of the bugs they had as well. Still, wasn't all bad. I loved the weapon dupe bug.

[supraking951]

this game was great fun, I'd put it in the same league as Borderlands. Just great 4 player co-op fun :D Both series has potential to deliver an even better sequel

[0pie]

fuck this game... the 1st dead island was a buggy mess and even now... im still unable to play online with friend on my pc. Also Deep silver give the most horrible custommer service you can ask for. I sent them something like 3 email about the problem i had, i was also verry polite and never wrote me back.

[CanadianTurtle]

They could've just said it's a sequel.

[WeskerChildReborned]

Hopefully this game doesn't come with the same issues the other one did.

[LoneWanderer09]

Good loved the first game, lets see if they can make this one as good as the other one

[Sarobi]

I would gladly refer to the first game as "Glitch Island".. being that is was full of them

[Rupee]

The first was far from perfect. Faaaaar from perfect but I had a lot of fun playing this game with friends! I hope they continue to grow and I look forward to this game.

[Speed-Racer]

Great news! I've run through the first game's campaign about 5 times now. There were glitches and odd physics, but it was a really fun game. The zombie action was definitely fun but surprisingly the island paradise also made it quite an enjoyable experience. Can't wait to see what they have in store.

[jessupj]

And it'll still be the full $110 in Australia.

[xAlmostPro]

This game would be awesome set in say.. Vegas :P

[tigertron]

Lets hope this is more polished than the first.

I think the first game is great but it was let down by all the glitches and bugs etc.

[Gamesgbkiller]

i played the first one
and its very cool game
i spent a lot of time in the game

[Drabent]

Keep your broke azz glitchy games, NO THANKS!!!

[axerated]

The first 1 was good, but I want to be able to make a custom character, have npc's I care about, less scripted zombies that are only alerted if they see or hear you so you can try and sneak by them, and instead of a safe house which they simply can't enter; require you to find and barricade locations which you have to protect and can be overrun causing you to need to find a new haven. I want survival, walking dead style, not a big dumb action game with lame characters. If only the devs could take this on board, here's hoping...

[Rupee]

Those are all great ideas! It would be a nice touch having to barricade your safehouse.

[pbasson]

Heard of COD Zombies.

[Unversed87]

Mortal Kombat Zombies wtf.
This games story got worse and worse toward the end. Characters sucked and unbalanced Purna levels up the quickest. Potentionally good game i pray 4 the next installment.

[Sorrow24]

lol at the disagree as if what you were saying wasn't true.

[Sevir]

The initial trailer had me hyped but the end result just made it a generic experience! Wasn't worth the hype nor the rental I gave it. >_> the bugs this game had were almost as frustrating as the bugs I experienced in Skyrim. Not treading down this road again. I'm good on zombies!

[tallkidoPL]

Cant wait for this game!!

[Paballo]

Hopefully the developers listened to the reviews of the game and are going to improve and give the game mechanics an overhall.
I must say the orginal game did have the best trailer of all time though....but thats what suckered us into buying the game which was boring.

[pbasson]

Game was glitchly & story was average.

On the Flipside. The best RPG zombie game like ever. had a great RPG element, that was great that kept things interesting, I wish more games was like this.