Dead Island 2 Review - IGN

A hilarious gore-fest and a competent zombie-slaying adventure.

[XbladeTeddy]

Sounds better than I expected it to be. Defo going to check it out.

[just_looken]

I forgot about it and for those with amd rewards remember to get your steam key i am off to get mine.

[IamTylerDurden1]

Agreed. Looked like a high 60's but currently 74 Opencritic. I fully expected inferior scores to Dying Light.

[RaidenBlack]

Its a pretty good looking game as well.
IGN's video is as usual low quality

[P_Bomb]

They survived development hell! Good for them!

[Profchaos]

I'm positive there's going to be some great stories coming out of the multiple teams that touched this over the years

[IamTylerDurden1]

I thought the Yager version looked better for its time tbh.

[just_looken]

One does not survive the crunch but only endures it.

I say that to other stories were after they could not get another job after 10-14yrs on one project and or is so stressed or mentally fed up they stop working in the industry.

I mean look at bioware edmintion.

[IamTylerDurden1]

Happy for them but how on earth is it essentially matching Dying Light in reviews? DL1 and DI2 have the same Opencritic and DL2 is 2 pts different. I love DI for the setting but this game looks like a limited version of Dying Light. It looks like the same DI from 10 yrs ago but with B4B cards. I'm baffled by the reviews. Dambusters, dev hell, nothing overly impressive looking. Maybe critics were rooting for it? Good for DI though, i had a blast on the OG.

[gangsta_red]

This is the next game i have in my que from Gamefly. Hoping it will be as fun as part one and I'm glad to see multiplayer was kept for this.

[Eidolon]

I barely put it in my Queue today, completely forgot to earlier this month. Probably won't get it shipped and have to wait weeks like I did with RE4:R

[gangsta_red]

I finished Dead Space Remake just in time and sent that back, so this one will be the only one in my que.

[Eidolon]

Just got RE4:R on the 19th(technically 12 hrs ago when I checked the mail), and they shipped Dead Island 2 already, a day after I had put it in Queue and 2 days before relase. Some games get shipped 2 days before release, though, but not all. I think I had put RE4:R in Queue just a day before release.

[blackblades]

I remember people saying this game was gonna be bad. Apparently they were wrong been seeing 8s and of course IGN would give it a 7 but still aint bad.

[edeprez]

IGN and most of the gaming sites operate on a 7-10 scale for grading, 7 being bad. This game may be great according to tastes, but their grading is not on an even 1-10 scale.

[Eonjay]

I think Fighter Within got a 1. Clearly this isn't that.

[XbladeTeddy]

7 actually equals good not bad, 8 is great, 9 is excellent and 10 is masterpiece. Even 6 on that scale isn't bad, it's passable. 5 and below is bad territory .

[IamTylerDurden1]

74 Opencritic, so nothing amazing, but far better than we all Imagined. I mean, it didn't look great. It looked like Dead Island from 10 yrs ago with cards. It looked more limited than Dying Light. Not sure how they pulled it off but what exactly made u confident it'd be good? Dambusters/3 dev teams, dev hell, and nothing overly impressive looking. Regardless, i'm happy for the IP as i love DI for the goofy setting.

[badz149]

"originality"

IGN's favourite term for them to dock points for games that are not Nintendo's.

[IamTylerDurden1]

Originality how? It looks like old DI with B4B cards. I love DI but original it is not. Not after 2 prior games and 2 Dying Light titles.

[badz149]

did I say that this game was original?

[IamTylerDurden1]

U said IGN did.

[badz149]

what I meant was IGN use "originality" to dock points from games other than Nintendo's as in they look for "originality" in other games, which is very hard to find nowadays, to justify their low scores usually.

[InUrFoxHole]

Stoked!!!

[Traecy]

I figured the game would be 7 & 8s. Definitely picking up a copy this weekend.

[Sonic1881]

So dying light is still a better Zombie game

[MadLad]

Not Dying Light 2.
Very disappointing sequel.

[Sonic1881]

I was referring to the first game

[DafunkyRebel]

Dying Light 1 was great, had its short coming but a masterpiece zombie game no doubt. Dying Light 2 on the other hand oh boy that was a major disappointment

[IamTylerDurden1]

Same Opencritic as Dying Light 1. 74.

[Kornholic]

Dying Light: 74 metascore
Dead Island 2: 75 metascore

Dead Island 2 wins.

[MadLad]

Dying Light 1 greatly reimagined itself over years of updates and added content.
They apparently learned almost nothing from the praise Dying Light would eventually and released a major letdown compared to what people were used to.

[Sonic1881]

Dead Island 2 is 74 on opencritic and I expect it to get lower

https://opencritic.com/game...

[Ninver]

They actually got it out. I'll give them a 7 for that alone lol

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Dead island 2 congrats for releasing

[ocelot07]

Will be picking this up in a few weeks. Only just about getting round to starting dying light 2.

[Profchaos]

Not bad for a game i was calling vaporware two years ago

[Viljong]

After psvr2 its hard to get exited from flat 2d games. Normally i would celebrate horizon dlc and dead island 2 but i rather fight zombies in vr.

[edeprez]

Man, that's a good idea! Someone needs to make a game like this one in vr, smashing skulls would never get old.

[Anomander]

First one was fun back on PC. I picked this one up just for the nostalgia reason and thought it looked good from the preview. You can never have enough zombie slaying.

[HyperMoused]

Looks like some good gory zombie slaying fun, definitely jumping in

[Elda]

I pre-ordered at Gamestop, will be picking this up this Friday for some funny gory fun.

[anast]

An IGN 7 means the game bombed.

[SOSTOTO]

WOW