For those of you that played the first dead island, you remember years of trailers promising an innovative survival horror game. As soon as you played the game you realized it was glitchy, lacked luster and depth.
This time around I admit Techland finally made the game that was promised. Dead island really is a clone of the first dead island.
The sequel has a lot of set backs. The first game took place on the vast island of Banoi, and it had a lot of areas to explore like office buildings, luxury resorts juxta posed to indigenous tribal villages. Palanai feels small and disjointed. The side missions are repetitive and story is weak. Nothing new here.
The plus side is that less is more. The cool part about a zombie hack and slash is teaming up with a partner to coop. Missions are more fun and easier when you have a friend.
Visuals, sound and gameplay are solid. The scenery is breathtaking as usual. There are some additions like new kill animations, a new playable immune character, and weapons breaking after wear.
Dead island riptide is a true old school sequel that gives you more of the same gameplay just in a slightly new location with new characters. Therefore, I give it 6.0/10. Worth a rental to see what's up but not worth a full price buy.
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