Well this is my first post and I'd like to get some introductory stuff over with. I love old games, I can hardly stand mostly every new game made with maybe only 20% of it being good(a majority of that being sports games). Now before you call it biased I give games a fair chance to prove themselves to me before I decide to "talk down" to them with my opinions. As for any posts you'll see from this name, will be reviewish.
To the point: Dead Island, is it a game worth the hype it's getting?
Anyone I know has for the most part become obsessed with this game, why? I see nothing good here at all to be blunt. I'll break it down in reaction steps to make this organized.
Preview at Gamestop: Friends goes, "Ohmygod! Dead Island due look!" I look and take in the preview yet I couldn't help feeling we've done this routine too much. Pretty graphics were a plus though, yet I yawned at it.
Giving a second chance: After further hearing the hype and excitement it's giving my friends I began watching Youtube play through(I enjoy analyzing a games beginning in order to decide if it's worth 60 freaking bucks, if it can't hook me through watching then it simply lacks something) The beginning of the game was interesting at least, "Fall Out 3 play style?" I thought, "Sweet." The player went on and on opening every single damn bag which got boring so I fast forwarded to the elevator when obvious things were about to go down(literally...) I predicted the whole scene to my dismay though I saw one thing, a zombie ran?! Oh hell here we go again Left 4 Dead....
Furthering my study: A random voice begins to guide the player to a Storage room, in which he's chased down a hall by fast as heck zombies. Only to barely shut the door to safety and turn around to get knocked out by what appeared to be a.....zombie? At this point my head slammed my keyboard. I'm all for innovation, but this takes away the whole zombie thing to me. Zombies shouldn't be able to sprint and shouldn't be able to full force knock someone out, why even knock him out? It clearly could have bit him and ate him. Not much going for it so far and the beginning is made to reel a player in....if I were playing it, just like Devil May Cry 4, I would have stopped already.
Now I could go on and on here, but I'm going to point out things that this game has that's been done before.
1. Fall Out 3 game style.
2. Warcraft talent trees
3. ZOMBIES.
You see the problem today is, zombies are too over done. They're not even something to fear anymore. Dead Rising 2 which I feel Dead Island is a cardboard copy just about(only much worse) made a total joke of a huge zombie outbreak in a mall. What happened to "survival horror"? Amnesia the Dark Descent for example, now that was survival horror for ya. That had me yelping and left clueless at times, totally helpless as well. Castlevania(the first ones) were great survival games and were scary just due to the shear challenge. Dead Island in conclusion is simply nothing special to me, the idea has been done way too much, the gameplay no matter how you change it has been beaten to death. Overall it's a bland game that's somehow getting attention(kind of like Angry Birds, and yes I despise Angry Birds)
Now before flaming comes in, I did play a half hour of Dead Island. Only to drop the controller and go back to Pokemon Emerald(nostalgia...even if it was the worst region.) Dead Island just doesn't have enough appeal like Dead Rising had, even though I wouldn't say Dead Rising is great it was at least good for some kicks and fun for a while not to mention it could get rather challenging. Don't lie to me, TK was a total pain to fight that first S ending play through.
In complete closing, thank you for reading this small review. This is all just my opinion there's honestly no need to go crusade this forum to flame me for it. You guys can post your opinions too, just no flaming I'm tired of the internet being full of it just because someone feels a different way.
To the point: Dead Island, is it a game worth the hype it's getting?
Anyone I know has for the most part become obsessed with this game, why? I see nothing good here at all to be blunt. I'll break it down in reaction steps to make this organized.
Preview at Gamestop: Friends goes, "Ohmygod! Dead Island due look!" I look and take in the preview yet I couldn't help feeling we've done this routine too much. Pretty graphics were a plus though, yet I yawned at it.
Giving a second chance: After further hearing the hype and excitement it's giving my friends I began watching Youtube play through(I enjoy analyzing a games beginning in order to decide if it's worth 60 freaking bucks, if it can't hook me through watching then it simply lacks something) The beginning of the game was interesting at least, "Fall Out 3 play style?" I thought, "Sweet." The player went on and on opening every single damn bag which got boring so I fast forwarded to the elevator when obvious things were about to go down(literally...) I predicted the whole scene to my dismay though I saw one thing, a zombie ran?! Oh hell here we go again Left 4 Dead....
Furthering my study: A random voice begins to guide the player to a Storage room, in which he's chased down a hall by fast as heck zombies. Only to barely shut the door to safety and turn around to get knocked out by what appeared to be a.....zombie? At this point my head slammed my keyboard. I'm all for innovation, but this takes away the whole zombie thing to me. Zombies shouldn't be able to sprint and shouldn't be able to full force knock someone out, why even knock him out? It clearly could have bit him and ate him. Not much going for it so far and the beginning is made to reel a player in....if I were playing it, just like Devil May Cry 4, I would have stopped already.
Now I could go on and on here, but I'm going to point out things that this game has that's been done before.
1. Fall Out 3 game style.
2. Warcraft talent trees
3. ZOMBIES.
You see the problem today is, zombies are too over done. They're not even something to fear anymore. Dead Rising 2 which I feel Dead Island is a cardboard copy just about(only much worse) made a total joke of a huge zombie outbreak in a mall. What happened to "survival horror"? Amnesia the Dark Descent for example, now that was survival horror for ya. That had me yelping and left clueless at times, totally helpless as well. Castlevania(the first ones) were great survival games and were scary just due to the shear challenge. Dead Island in conclusion is simply nothing special to me, the idea has been done way too much, the gameplay no matter how you change it has been beaten to death. Overall it's a bland game that's somehow getting attention(kind of like Angry Birds, and yes I despise Angry Birds)
Now before flaming comes in, I did play a half hour of Dead Island. Only to drop the controller and go back to Pokemon Emerald(nostalgia...even if it was the worst region.) Dead Island just doesn't have enough appeal like Dead Rising had, even though I wouldn't say Dead Rising is great it was at least good for some kicks and fun for a while not to mention it could get rather challenging. Don't lie to me, TK was a total pain to fight that first S ending play through.
In complete closing, thank you for reading this small review. This is all just my opinion there's honestly no need to go crusade this forum to flame me for it. You guys can post your opinions too, just no flaming I'm tired of the internet being full of it just because someone feels a different way.
