![]() If you played either Dead Island or Dying Light, you’ll be very familiar with the gameplay loop in Dead Island 2. The interesting thing about those however was the ability to have side characters head over to a mansion that serves as the main survivor group’s base of operations. I got to run through a healthy amount of main story quests that brought me to a variety of areas, along with a handful of side-missions which were fine for the most part. Judging from the stats screen, my build of the game allowed me to play what seems like just about half the main content of Dead Island 2’s full game which was a decent amount of stuff to do in the few hours it took me to run through it. This makes sense since recording six unique reactions for NPCs to the six unique jokes each of the characters might say would definitely be a bit of an undertaking but still, it makes many conversations come off a bit jilted. On top of that, conversations can come off as slightly detached at times as well when your character is clearly slinging out a quip unique to their character, but the NPC you’re talking to doesn’t react to it. Taking place in LA, its cast is full of *very* LA people who all show off their own brand of stereotypical LA obnoxiousness, which unfortunately extends to your player character as well. The game is definitely more lighthearted in tone than its sister series Dying Light, which, depending on the person, might work against it. You play as one of six “slayers” who try to escape the recently infested Los Angeles only to have your plane crash, get yourself bitten to discover you are immune to the virus, and form up with a group to find some way past the military blockade. Set a few months after the original Dead Island, its sequel moves us from the island of Banoi to Los Angeles, amusingly nicknamed “HELL-A”. It’s finally coming out though and I got to spend a few hours slicing and dicing zombies with an early build. It’s been twelve years since the original game, and eight years since Dead Island 2’s original planned release date. It’s hard to believe that we’re actually, finally going to be able to play Dead Island 2.
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