"Dead Island Focuses More On Surviving Than Shooting" or "Yeah, Dead Island Again"

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

I never got the hype over the original trailer. I mean for a start it was a purely pre-rendered cutscene, which we all know are never anything like what the game is going to be like and is the reason why I never trust any game that doesn't show me actual in game footage ever. The fact that it seemed to be just another zombie game was also uninteresting to me too (oh yay, more bloody zombies, because we've never seen those in a game before right?).

Then a short while after that trailer the developers came out and said they were genuinely surprised at the reactions they'd had because apparantly the game wasn't gong to be anything like what the trailer was showing anyway, which raised yet anohter eyebrow for me and basically confirmed for me that they'd designed the entire thing purely to draw some sort of emotional attention to what was going to possibly be a very shallow game.

And then they went and likened it to Borderlands crossed with Dead Rising, which confirmed that they'd been bullshitting us the whole time.

Oh and then we saw the actual gameplay footage and it looked medicore at best.

And WTF is with that logo? How is that dude hanging from a fucking palm leaf? There is like no support in that leaf what so ever man!

[Pip Boy]

Originally Posted by Hawk

I never trust any game that doesn't show me actual in game footage ever.

This link is just for you, Hawk.

All in all, Im slightly disappointed that what originally looked like it was going to be a really realistic grim survival horror game (kind of like the first few levels of play in Fallout 3 or New Vegas) is instead a cooperative 4-player RPG game almost more like Borderlands. Don't get me wrong, I liked borderlands, its just that I'm not sure if this game is going to be what I hoped it would be.