It doesn’t matter how good the co-op experience is, if you’re spending most of it driving around and getting lost in the undergrowth, turning down wrong roads and having to stop to clear the way, all before you even reach the quest objective, then I’d question whether you’re even having fun anymore. The island is relatively large, and many of the quests will have you backtracking over large parts of it, so having the ability to take you and your party directly to a location that you’ve been before would have been appreciated. The zombies can be pretty hard to kill too, especially when you’re with a group, as they appear to scale in difficulty with how many people are in your team, so upgrading your weapons and keeping them in tip-top condition is an absolute must if you intend to survive as is sticking together.įast Travel is something that was severely lacking in Dead Island: Riptide, at least in the preview build that we were playing. Dotted around the island are workbenches that can be used to do this – along with repairing weapons, which you’ll be doing a lot – and, at least to begin with, everything seems way too expensive, however, there’s so much cash laying around the island, in bags, laying on the ground as well as on the defeated zombies, that by the time we reached the end of the three hours, none of us were struggling for cash.
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When the game first starts, the weapons that you’ll find aren’t very good, you’ll need to upgrade them and modify them a little to make them more usable all of which costs money.
Once that’s done we grab some quests and head out to explore the island and bash some zombie skulls in. Once there, and we’ve helped defend the camp by killing – or is it re-killing? – all of the walkers that are shuffling around (yes, they’re really called walkers) and putting up fences to keep them out. Nevertheless, we head out to our first waypoint, a survivor held encampment named, ironically, ‘Paradise’. The preview starts and the first thing we notice is the fact that we’ve got three hours to play as much of the game as we can within the time limit pretty generous as far as previews go. Is that scenario a little too coincidental, or have Techland and Deep Silver actually managed to pull off a well-made and fun experience? We headed into co-op to find out. You thought you escaped Dead Island, you made it to a boat and found your way off of the first island only to find yourself quickly shipwrecked on yet another zombie-infested paradise. This isn’t any normal holiday destination either, this is Palanai, otherwise affectionately known as the second Dead Island.
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These aren’t any normal birds though, they’re of the carrion variety, circling because the beach is full not only of golden sand and sea-shells, but the rotting corpses of many holiday-makers. MARTIN BAKER: The sun is high in the sky, the clear blue waters are lapping onto the beach I’m standing on and I can hear birds circling in the sky.
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It’s worth mentioning that these impressions are based o a non-final PC preview build. The following are individual write-ups of our co-op experience. Together with Adam and Benjamin, I headed to the island of Palanai, equipped myself with whatever pieces of pseudo-weaponry I could find and started bashing zombie/walker heads in. With this in mind, when we were given the opportunity to take a look at the upcoming sequel – Dead Island: Riptide – we decided that as well as the preview that you hopefully read a couple of weeks ago, we would also get a group of us together and tackle this new island in what was undoubtedly going to be the superior gameplay experience co-operatively. There aren’t too many games out there than can offer a truly co-operative experience, where the players actually feel like they’re helping each other instead of playing as a nameless extra character attacking enemies in the same vicinity as their friends but not in anything that could be considered a connected experience. When the first Dead Island game was released a couple of years ago it was no secret that it was a much better experience if it was played with other people.
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