Dead Island: Definitive Edition

Dead Island is mostly just a standard zombie-killing adventure that doesn't do anything unique to separate it from its counterparts, but it is still a solid experience overall.

The Definitive Edition has a noticeable graphical upgrade, both concerning environmental detail and character models, of both ally and zombie variety, making it still hold up quite well; take note, it is still sadly in 30 fps.

Gameplay is just OK, not punchy enough, but it gets the job done; special abilities unique to every character do spice things up and provide replayability; special infected gradually appear throughout the campaign and provide some challenge. Enemies do have good-looking gore and dismemberment that makes killing zombies satisfying, but not as impressive as Dead Island 2 has. Crafting and weapon modifications are included, but nothing unique, mostly to provide additional damage and passive effects to enemies. It's, of course, good to have such a system, but weapon durability can get annoying during the early part of the game.

The narrative is uninspired and forgettable, just a standard zombie apocalypse affair. The environment is great, but mostly during the first half of the game, before you leave the holiday resort/beaches and go deep into civilian areas, which get less interesting to explore.

To sum up, there are much better options if you want to play a zombie-killing video game, most notably Dying Light, but at the always dirt-cheap price this game is being sold for, I do believe it's a solid enough experience to try out; with friends in co-op, it makes the experience even better.

Who do you voodoo bitch!

Played on: Playstation 5
Version: Playstation 4
Edition: Digital

Well, that's the final time. I have tried this game OVER & OVER again. I just....cannot get into this. At first I'm like "YES! So cool!" & then I realize that I will be doing a BUNCH of fetch quest, vanilla, loot, & repetitive bullshit & pull the plug. I am done. Not for me & I think that someone needs to come in & give this tired genre a new code of paint or just put its exaughsted ass to sleep for a while because as it looks now, first person zombie games are ALL the same.

Final verdict: Don't touch it

‌ Dead Island: DE
✪ {ᏚᏟᏫᏒᎬ : 6.2}
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🝰 | 𝚁𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙽𝙶𝚂

• Story : 2.0
~ the story 'n lore 'n logic 'n everything is stupid. it's- it's just bad. doesn't even try tbh.
𐄁 Characters : 1.0
𐄁 Voice Acting : 6.8
~ some of the voice recordings and npcs actually had surprisingly good voice acting! but the main characters' are bad, even tho you barely ever hear them. to be fair, the writing is dum.
𐄁 World Building/Lore : 3.3

• Atmosphere : 6.0
~ at the start, it does have a decent atmosphere to it (probably cause you're new to it), but it disappears.
𐄁 Immersion : 3.7
𐄁 Intensity : 4.5
~ good at the beginning, but very quickly you start to notice the constant repeating patterns.

• Gameplay : 5.5
𐄁 Combat : 5.9
~ it feels alright for about 30m, then it's just the same exact thing over and over again. no dodge or block either, but kicking and jumping 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘢 does the job?
i do appreciate the variety in weapons tho, but they all use the same 3/4 packs of animations. the inventory is messy too.
𐄁 Gunplay : 6.5
~ the overabundance of bullets take that survival feel away.
𐄁 Stealth : -
~ literally not even an option.
𐄁 Movement : 6.0
~ i was kinda impressed with the camera movement at the start, but other than that it's eh.
𐄁 Traversal : 5.5
~ the cars are ok [cool shaky camera], but it's just, idk..
• Level Design : 4.0
~ it's all just running stupid errands cause everyone else is too damn lazy to do anything. love it! ughh..
𐄁 Pacing : 3.6
~ it's fun for about the lengh of act 1, after that you start to realize oh this is sll there is, and it just gets super stale. and since the story doesn't give you any motivation (other than ~𝘈𝘚𝘚~), it just feels like why am i even playing it anymore.
thankfully tho, some hero popped up in my game and gave me a modded weapon in act 2, that sure helped alot with stupid grindy quests, tho i tried to not use it in the main storyline.
oh and i loved having to run back and forth so many damn times.
• Side Content : 4.5
~ i did pretty much every single side quest, not because they were any fun, but because i made it my mission to find one single quest that was kind of intresting or enjoyable, but nope :D

• Visuals : 8.4
~ definitely a pretty looking game for it's time.
𐄁 Textures : 7.6
⋆ Lighting : 8.7
𐄁 Small Details : 3.9
• Environment Design : 8.0
~ the environments are pretty damn nice sometimes, especially in act 1 (mostly cause everyone has ~𝘈𝘚𝘚~ ^^), after that they still have the same quality, it's just, it feels really dead, and unimmersive in a way.
• Cinematics : 1.5
~ there are so few cinematics, and they are just, garbage.

• Animations : 5.6
𐄁 Combat Animations : 4.2
𐄁 TK Animations : -
~ just STOMP!
𐄁 Facial Animations : -
~ the faces were animated!?

• SoundTrack : -
~ WHO DO YOU VOODOO BITCH! (don't remember anything else)
• Sound Design : 6.5
~ love the random obviously fake screams.

• Multiplayer : 𝜘
𐄁 Servers : ✓
• DLC : 4.6
~ better story than the main game, but i just couldn't care.

• Riptide : 𝜘￬
~ after finishing the original i had so much more than enough of this game, and riptide was literally just that but more. i couldn't take it anymore.

• Performance : ￪￪￪￬

⎆ 𝙾𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚁𝚂⬎
𐄁 Innovation : ⍟¹  ￬¹
𐄁 Replayability : ⍟¹  ￬⁴
𐄁 Customization : ⍟¹  ￬¹
𐄁 UI/HUD : ⍟¹  ￬²
𐄁 Setting Options : ⍟³  ￬¹
𐄁 Accessibility : ⍟‐  ￬¹
𐄁 Collectibles : 𝜘
𐄁 Trophies : 𝜘
𐄁 Extras : 〆

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？| 𝚀𝚄𝙴𝚂𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽𝚂

𐄁 Do i recommend this game? if you really wanna play it, just play the first act. it's basically farcry, but zombies! it's just so soulless. i have less will to live than i did before. but.. ~𝘈𝘚𝘚~ :>
𐄁 Did it make me take my time with it? i guess so? even tho not really?
𐄁 Did it meet my expectations? honestly, i expected shit, then kinda got hopeful that maybe it's not shit, then got disappointed that it was shit.

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〄 | 𝙸𝙽𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽
- Platforms : PS4 Pro
- First Playthrough : 06.12.24
𐄁 Finished at : 16.12.24
𐄁 Playtime : 28ʜ 30′
- Beaten : 1 time
- Trophy Progress : 36℅⁴³'°
⟆⟅ | Won't Platinum (っ⌓^)

80/100
As a Child: 90/10. 90/100

Beat: 2
Definitive Edition: 1 (at Level 40)
OG Dead Island: 1

Play Through with/ Willy & Noah: 36 hrs
New Game + (so far): 38 hrs & 42 mins
Overall Play Time: 59 hrs & 30 mins
Counting OG: 100 hrs ?

PS3 Disc (OG)
Xbox 360 Disc (OG)
PS4 & PS5 Download

Repatitive and boring