First off I know that the guy in the green shirt is Dominic, what I was making fun of is that he was trapped in a zombie infested hotel as the sole survivor for two days and no one even so much as looks at him in the cut scene. you don't even bring him with you back to the life guard tower!
The reason why I say that I would not get this game to play just single player is that when I am playing single player I am looking to be immersed in the world that I am playing but Dead Island feels unfinished with the amount of bugs, glitches and poorly programed animations there are. Also some of the game seems to just plain tell you to play it in multiplayer. Respawn points in the game are generally close, as in a few feet from, where you just died which is nice if you are playing in multiplayer but in single player you get swarmed and killed over and over. Also I mentioned that the cutscenes have all four characters in the game, even if you're by yourself.
Atmosphere is probably where this game does its worst. The resort zone is beautiful but everywhere else on the island is rather ugly and bland, ideas ripped straight from every other zombie game and the sewer zones are just boring. If this is supposed to be a zombie horror game it is doing a terrible job because nothing in the game is scary in the slightest. Even when there are areas where zombies are supposed to pop up and surprise you it never works because they are so obvious. strange dialogue and bad voice acting never really seem to get across that you or any of the other survivors are really in danger (when talking about the food problem the life guard comes off as pestered rather than desperate).
Quests are both good and bad in this game. The bad is that you will have your fair share of fetch quests, and then some. The side quests are mostly really odd for people to be asking you for during a zombie apocalypse, like going and getting a necklace, or a teddy bear, at one point you save a guy who wants you to then go and get a key to a safe so he can get "the money he is owed". Repeatable quests are ripe in this game and are as confusing as the side quests are. Items respawn every time you load into the zone ,be it from a different zone or just turning the game back on, so you are normally going to have an abundance of whatever item the repeatable quest needs. this leads to some confusion as you hand a lady her 100th bottle of water in which she replies she is crampy still or you hand someone their 40th can of food and later you hear some dialogue that suggests they are having food problems...no your not you liar you just want me to go fight more zombies! On the other hand the main quests do follow survival logic, turning on the light house to flag ships, getting food to help survivors, seeing if the police can offer help, that kind of thing.
That being said the game does have plenty of redeeming qualities to it. the RPG elements to the game really enhances the game and makes it fun, moding your sledge hammer to having blades on all sides of it or an on fire baseball bat is always a formula for good times. The fury in the game is enjoyable when you use it on a large group of zombies and it really makes you feel powerful when it's up. After your fury is down you go back to fighting for survival or at least kiteing the zombies for survival.
The multiplayer design for the game is fantastic. When the steam version was finally fixed me and some friends played through the game and the game scales zombies well to having a group of people playing it. Special zombies pose a greater threat by killing someone in two hits, small zombies do not go down as easy to the effect that it is still a fight in multiplayer and not just four guys running through a group of zombies killing them all. Even if you don't have friends to play this with you can still enjoy multiplayer with Dead Island seamless online system. You can hop in and out of other peoples games without any consequences, you even get to keep what you were driving.
if you're expecting narrative, a great story and something you can immerse yourself in you will be very disappointed but as I said in my video if you want to bash some zombies and maybe do some fetch quests this is the game for you.