I'm really enjoying Dead Island at the moment. The graphics are iffy and there have been a few glitches here and there, but nothing that ruins the game. I enjoy the combat a great deal, nice and visceral and with some tactics for those who can be bothered - targeting the arms of the thugs so you can break them and make their attacks next to useless, breaking the legs of normal zombies to stop them getting up etc.
It's a pity a headshot with pistols won't drop them in one shot like you're trained to think it would by the movies, but you could simply get to a spot where they can't reach you and pick them off, making the game trivially easy. It's a pity that all zombies level up along with you, would have been nice for a few weaker ones to slip into the crowd but as it stands, I'm having a lot of fun with a style of game I don't normally go for.
Oh, and the no kids thing, you think that games have a good enough reputation to get away with featuring the player character bludgeoning little zombie kids around the skull? Really? What's so hard to grasp about what a massive PR nightmare that would be for gaming as a whole? Zombies or no, they're still child shaped, and being able to stove their heads in as you please simply wouldn't fly.
