![]() ![]() More than once while playing Dead Island 2, I endangered myself while fighting a horde by turning to look at the aftermath of my violent deeds. The effect is both gross and spectacular, kind of like watching fireworks made of blood. Depending on the type of zombie and the weapon you are using, it isn’t unusual to see enemies utterly explode in a shower of gore and viscera. Tired of getting clobbered by that titan? Aim for his arms and see how much damage he can do with two bloody stumps. ![]() Sick of that runner that has been chasing you around? Chop off his legs. By adjusting the angle of your attack a little bit, you can easily aim for individual body parts. It’s gross, and awesome.Īttacks in Dead Island 2 are dynamic and intuitive. When you slice a zombie in half in Dead Island 2, it is entirely possible that you will then see their entrails unspool from their abdominal cavity, like something out of a George Romero movie. Not only are these guys’ skeletons wrapped in digital muscle every zombie in the game has realistically rendered brains and internal organs, which can be ripped, shattered, exposed, and burnt. The developers at Dambuster Studios have ensured that every zombie in the game has realistic anatomy. To call the kills in Dead Island 2 brutal is an understatement the violence on display in this game is visceral, bloody, and raw. And while I noticed a lot of things about Dead Island 2, what made the biggest impression was the fantastically gory and realistic battle system. I was able to go hands-on with an early build of the game, putting in five or six hours to work my way through the opening areas and the first couple of bosses. A little over a month from now, on April 15, Dead Island 2 will come shambling out of the shadows and sink its teeth into a gaming community that thought that – like zombies – there was no way that Dead Island 2 would ever be real.īut Hell has indeed frozen over, and Dead Island 2 is skating across the ice right towards us. More than twelve years after the release of Dead Island, and after a decade of false starts and stops involving at least three video game studios, Dead Island 2 is almost upon us. ![]()
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