Gamespot: Dead Island 2 Ditches The Open World, But Ramps Up The Gore

After years in development hell, Dead Island 2 is looking better than you might assume, even as its scope seems to have been scaled down over the years.

[porkChop]

That was a great read. I didn't realize Dead Island 2 wasn't open world. Tbh that actually gets me more excited. I like open world games but so many devs just go about it the wrong way. I hope we start to see more linear games this gen.

[isarai]

Honestly thats a big plus for me, so burnt out on open world gruel.

[Jin_Sakai]

Agreed. Seems everyone is chasing open world these days.

[KyRo]

Same.

Start mission, go here, clear this camp/area, kill this person, collect this, throw in random encounter annoyances, repeat. This gameplay loop applies to 90% of open world games. It's so boring because they are so similar. It all feels a bit box tickish.

I also miss large scale set pieces in games such as uncharted and you don't really see that in open world games.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Huge plus for Me. Follow the vision not trends.

[XbladeTeddy]

Agree, I only wish publishers saw that point of view.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Fr

[mkis007]

Honestly don't know what to think now...Is it more like dead space remake? Bioshock?

[XbladeTeddy]

Says closer to Bioshock style in the article.

[Welshy]

What do you mean "Bioshock style"? Bioshock was an immersive sim, Dead Island 2 doesn't look like that at all to me.

Surely they just mean hub based or linear in general?

[Stanjara]

Huge plus for me also... love it!

[HeliosHex]

This actually sounds great. I wasn't interested initially at all. But now iam.

[KicksnSnares]

It’s a day one buy for me now.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

This whole time I thought it was open world. I'll have to see more gameplay first.

[CantThinkOfAUsername]

I'm not a person who delves in politics or drags it in every topic, but I really had a hard time reading this article without thinking it's a socialist activism piece. Like the amount of dissing on anything/anyone rich—or 'disgustingly luxurious' as the author puts it—fooled me into thinking I was reading a Bolshevik's propaganda post.

[MeatyUrologist]

Lol it's gamespot, of course they have to inject politics into it. It would be socially irresponsible to NOT mention politics in an article about a game about dismembering digital recreations of zombified humans.

[Fluxour]

I mean, Dead Island 1 wasn't open world either

[mkis007]

Now that you mention it you are right. Each area was its own part of the story.

[Flakegriffin]

I’m okay with that actually. Makes me look forward to it even more.

[henryjonas59]

Great

[gold_drake]

im glad, just played DI 1 and damn, i didnt know where to begin lol

[Psychonaut85]

Sweet! My interest just went up. My backlog can’t handle another open world game. There’s a place for open world, but I find density far more interesting than space for the sake of space.

[chobit_A5HL3Y]

i really don't get the comments saying it's better that it's not open-world, especially without having played any sort of build for the game themselves lol if a dev is good at what they do then there's nothing wrong or better between either open-world or linear level design. if we heard that they had made an open-world concept before but it was bad and they ditched it for their current, better, linear level design, then i'd understand the criticism. like, the always-online thing for single-player stuff; i get the hate for that, but this just seems like a circle-jerk of band-wagon, open-world hate to me lol i mean, of course open-world is terrible if it's not done well but that applies to everything else in gaming.