Dead Island Review, Survival Horror Game themed RPG with First Person View.

Game fictions are berseting on a very beautiful resort island called the island Banoi. Unfortunately in this game we can not fully enjoy the beauty of this island. At the moment we wake up in the hotel Palms Resort and found that the entire island has been filled with zombies. We must find a way out of this daunting island and along perlarian, we will meet some of the survivors and also the mysterious person who communicates with us through radio will lead us into the forest to find the source of infection that spread terror in the beautiful island.This game presents four figures of characters to choose from, namely the Xian Mei, Sam B, Logan, and Full. Each character has a character of its own background, such as Xi'an May constitute one of the main Royal Palm Resort hotel employee who survived, Logan is one of the main football star whose career ended due to his ego, Sam B is a famous rap star, while Full was a police officer whose career ended sydney because errors are not intentional.

GameplayUnlike the game Left For Dead and Resident Evil, this game offers gameplay a la Grand Theft Auto, the game presents an Open World levels full of zombies on setting Banoi tourist places in the island. we can freely explore the island which includes the beach area, Hotel, Urban, Forest, underground passage, to the prison. In this game we also can use the vehicle to shorten the travel time from one place to another due to the extensive level of play and we can use the vehicle to hit the zombies that face in front of us.

Then we will also meet with some of the NPC who survived the terror of zombies to receive the main quest and side quests. In one of the main main quest will follow the movie Black Hawk Down and by using the same title quest with the title of the film, where we have to find a helicopter crash site to look for passengers who are still alive and saved him from the zombies as well as securing food into the bunker. Overall the main quest is presented in this game very interesting to follow the story throughout the game even looks flat and there is no intrigue. As for side quests are also very varied, such as finding missing persons, rescue people trapped inside a damaged car, to find the teddy bear and return it to a child.

Even more great again feature allows you to play cooperatively with friends up to 4 people and allows us to choose the same characters with other players. Each character in this game has a different skill and proficiency in a particular type of weapon. As Xian may have the skill to fight at close range with kungfunya and experts using sharp weapons, like swords. Meanwhile, Logan has the ability to throw with a sniper and expert in throwing weapons use.

This game also has a touch of RPG elements though actually not that deep. where by killing zombies and complete the quest then we will get some exp points which have been collected if the character is full then the level will be increased. And we also will get some skill points to learn the skills-skills that are in the skill tree are categorized into 3 in this game, the Fury that brings skill-a skill that can make the characters have more power and issued a pretty deadly attacks, which presents Combat skills-skills that will help increase attack power, and so in character, and Survival is a skill-a skill that is supportive like to add stamina to increase the storage of goods carried.
We can also have various types of weapons, but every weapon in this game has a level and statistics as in most RPG games, so we can only use weapons that have levels below or equal to the level of our character. In addition to using weapons, we can also perform jumps and kicks. If we combine the two movements would produce a powerful attack that can bring down a zombie. In addition, we also can assemble and modify weapons we have, to be able to do so we must look for workbenches scattered on game map and to assemble a weapon we need some requirements of the item, such as blueprints mod weapon, the weapon that you want to modify, and certainly just money. as an example we can assemble paired baseball stick with a nail into a pretty deadly weapon when we will make a zombie flick into a zombie's head bouncing off him. Our character can also have the stamina drained during the attack and ran, so we must pay attention to character also in addition to health stamina characters.

Zombie we face are also various types, some walking with slow, some fast running, nothing can blow up themselves as it approached us, until there is a nimble movements of up to difficult to kill. Nothing is so special with the AI ​​zombies in this game. In their mind just trying to eat our approach. It's just a lot of them keep us busy to save themselves when surrounded by them.
GraphicThe beauty of the island Banoi presented with pretty good success, and details in this game. Coupled with a fairly good lighting effects and fog effects and animation that looks like real water. Zombies in this game also successfully displayed with very scary and horrible but when viewed up close texture zombie looks terrible and is not detailed. O well, this game also features plenty of blood splattered on the screen so it is not good for small children.

OverallTechland managed to bring something different from other horror games are also themed zombie. The result is a combination of FPS and RPG game with Open World settings make survival horror-themed game is becoming quite interesting to play.Plus support cooperative mode which is becoming a major focus in this game makes the player easy to jump directly into the game in progress. And a lot of fun when we work together with friends in completing various quests and kill any zombies that appear in front of us.

Dead IslandPublisher: Deep SilverDeveloper: TechlandGenre: Survival Horror FPSRelease Date: September 9, 2011
ScoreStory. 70Gameplay. 80Graphic. 85Overalls. 90

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