Drops at midnight.

Getting 7-9's on early reviews. Not too bad given the crowded market. Multi-player is still pretty enigmatic.

Who else is going to give this melee(not shooter) based fps a shot?

Surprised you want it. Wouldnt you get bored of always dying first?

 

Originally Posted by norcaljeff

Surprised you want it. Wouldnt you get bored of always dying first?

Damn do I <3 you. No homo. Except for the heart. Objectively, yeah, that's a little homo.

 

Originally Posted by threeven

Just decided to try gamefly and this was the first game they sent me. Shipped saturday so we'll see when it comes in. Heard gamefly is kinda slow but one of their major shipping centers is like 10 minutes from where I am so hopefully will be quick.

Gamefly has always been a 2 day turn around for me so, GL.

Thanks. I guess...

they're my favorite kind! lol

Excited to hear how people like it.

A couple of my friends that I played Left 4 Dead with were saying it looked good and they were going to pick it up -- I'm probably going to wait and see how they like it before I get it myself.

Feel free to post updates/reviews, I'd be really interested to hear them.

agreed trailer is pretty cool

I only got to put in about 2 hrs into the game last night due to having our ffb draft, but here are my initial impressions:

I spent the first hour or so completing initial missions and getting used to the gameplay. While it seems easy at first, you really underestimate how quickly the early weapons you use will deteriorate/break. It really does take a while to find your groove to easily kill the zombies. Especially when you get bombarded by several runners at once.

Once I got the feel for it, I wandered off the beaten path and just started exploring. The island seems pretty massive, and wide open for free exploration, but if you wander into the water or into a place you don’t belong, it says LEAVING THE GAME AREA. Kind of lame, but as far as I can tell the map is huge and these boundaries shouldn’t be too much of an issue.

So far I only met a handful of zombies that were hard to kill. Most of them are a pushover and simple to beat, as long as you remain aware of your surroundings. There aren’t too many wide open areas like the beach, most of them are by pools and bungalows where there are paths cut out and you can very easily get trapped in a corner or with your back to a wall.

I haven’t messed with the difficulty settings, but thus far its seems a little too easy. I am reminded of Manhunt, of how easy most people were to kill, but how extremely fun and gratifying of a game it was anyway. I must’ve wandered around randomly for an hour or more and had lots of fun just scavenging off dead bodies and killing rando zombies.

There are lots of small cars littered around certain areas. I was only able to drive one out of 20 or so I came across, but it was awesome, running over zombies to kill them was lots of fun. I also found bullets in one of the cars and got excited, but never found a gun to put them in. So far the weapons I have had are oars, wooden boards, wrenches, etc. Random melee weapons. I found a few workbenches and messed around with some weapon upgrades, but haven’t put too much time into that yet.

Skill trees seem pretty standard, offense/defense options, plus specialty options. Each character has a predilection towards certain weapons, I picked the chick who is the best with sharp weapons, and likewise I spent skillpoints on skills related to the sharp weapons...

So far I would give it a B+

PROS:
Island seems huge, lots of exploring to do
Roaming around and killing zombies ignoring your missions is fun and there is no pressure to complete the storyline
Gratuitous blood and violence

CONS:
Weapons are few in number and fall apart easily, no bad ass weapons early in the game
Fighting system too easy in the early stages
Gay boundaries preventing exploration of some mapped areas
Graphics are cartoonish at times
The environment isn’t as interactive as I’d like
Game seems too focused on weapon maintenance and upgrading, not enough lootable items unrelated to weapon upgrades

I read that theres some better gun gameplay later in the game. In the same review, game informer says you can get 'armed to the teeth' but a sentence later they say theres not a lot of ammo

Is that any good war? I've only played a ps2 version shortly but remember liking it

just saw this online. some are really funny.. there glitches
http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/pos...n-dead-island/

 

Originally Posted by tommpat2000

Is that any good war? I've only played a ps2 version shortly but remember liking it

hated earlier drivers but this one is alot of fun. there is a story to follow and WOW ITS FUCKING STUPID. I only did a few missions and now ive been driving around the city checking it out. kinda fucked up they cut bay bridge in half(you go over san fran side and your in oakland, no tunnel oakland side)

 

Originally Posted by threeven

Glo4m, you on XBL? Co-op?

prob cant play tonight but add me for sure, same name on XBL

 

Originally Posted by sacaniga

nice write up gloam thanks

np, next time im in asheville you're getting me high tho

 

Originally Posted by sacaniga

i don't smoke weed believe it or not... we'll get into some trouble though

I think he was refering to huffing paint chips