After five hours with Dead Island 2, I'm already pretty bored of chopping off zombie limbs.
After 12 years of development, across four different studios, Dead Island 2 is finally a playable videogame, with release planned for April 21 this year. After such a troubled journey it's impressive that its final custodians Dambuster Studios have pulled together anything at all—but after an extensive hands-on with the first third of the game, I'm sadly left feeling that the final result is a thin and uninteresting experience.
That's really the shadow hanging over the entire game—in the time since its original announcement, we've had two hugely successful Dying Light games, created by Dead Island's original developer and carrying the spirit of that game into a series with far greater scope. Even putting aside their open worlds, they've introduced a full parkour system, an engaging day-night cycle, and more—things that expand on the formula and give it a stronger identity.
Unfortunately the moment when things do collapse into the basic rhythm of light attacks, heavy attacks, and dodges, is the moment you realise that a gaggle of zombies just isn't a fun set of adversaries for a duel. Their stumbling attacks are awkward to judge for the timing of dodge-counters and parries, and the first-person view makes it difficult to manage more than one or two at a time without running around them like a loon.
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