Dead Island 2 (Zero Punctuation)



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This week on Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviews Dead Island 2.

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28 thoughts on “Dead Island 2 (Zero Punctuation)”

  1. It's cool that they finally released it, but they released it so far outside the window of people actually caring about zombie games. I enjoyed the first one a lot, but if I pick this game up at all, it'll be a GOTY bargain bin edition a year+ from now. At least the game seems relatively competent, albeit it looks kinda repetitive.

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  2. I genuinely thought this was a retro review, cuz I watched and enjoyed the trailer and never paid attention to it after so I assumed it'd been out for years

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  3. Days Gone was a lying sack of putrefying entrails. Every demo was showcasing these running horde battles that turned out to be mostly avoidable, which is good because there just isn't enough ammo to wipe those zombies out. That horde mechanic was how other games should have handled the same: run and gun to keep things interesting! Instead games went the HIDE AND WAIT SHHHH style of encounter. Or set up random traps and hope they go off somewhere in the horde's vicinity.

    Dead Island 2 has a craft system to make encounters interesting, but the long bake time for this title just gives you kind of a "blah" feeling toward the whole thing. You can't hype something for that long and expect people to still care at launch.

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  4. Yahtzee, never missing a chance to dunk on Days Gone. To be fair, I never played it and based on description, I might have plucked all the hair off my body top to bottom in frustration if I had to deal with an annoying pissant of a main character.

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  5. I really thought the game came out 6 years ago or something, and it was so bland everyone forgot about it like I did. Turns out I forgot about it since it didn't exist.

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  6. The pathetic thing about TLoU is that it couldn’t even bother having its zombies be a focal point of the story. They’re just kind of around now and then as a catalyst for everyone in the series to be total shitheads.

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