Dead Island PS3 - worth a playthrough?

[Si Man 87]

Myself and a mate were considering picking this up as we are both zombie gaming fans, unfortunately the reviews are a bit of a mixed bag so was hoping for some user feedback on here regarding the single player campaign and if it works well online?

[2Incher]

I thought it was pants, very linear with few choices that change anything about the game. I still caved in and bought riptide though, that's loads better but I got stuck at a boss called mr dead and never went back to it.

[Si Man 87]

That's what I was fearing, is riptide a whole new game in itself? If so what does it do differently?

[QualityChimp]

You can get the first game for less than a tenner and personally, I really enjoyed it. (360)

Single-player was really tense and co-op was great fun.

A lot of the reviews are from when it was released and it had a load of issues, but by the time I played it at the end of last year, it was patched up and I thought it was a good example of how to do drop-in gaming.

I'd say go for it!

[MonkeyJuggleDX]

I really enjoyed it and would thoroughly recommend it. Riptide s great so far as well.

[rmoxon]

I thought it was terrible. A horrible looking, and dull to play, open world game with very little variety and even less personality.

[dvdx2]

Technically it can be a bit ropey, but i really enjoyed it. Great atmosphere, tense, although a tad repetitive.

Not much gunplay until later in the game though, so if you are looking for an fps, look else where

[MonkeyJuggleDX]

I thought it was terrible. A horrible looking, and dull to play, open world game with very little variety and even less personality.

But you don't like EDF, so your opinion is null and void.

[speedlolita]

It's a bad game, but it's pretty fun. Like EDF.

[QualityChimp]

I thought the sound was particularly good in this.

From the spooky loading music to the distant grunts of the city level.

It's not for everyone, but I genuinely got a lot from this game. It was tense at the start when you're underpowered and fun by the end when you're tooled up.

I really didn't want to go out on missions sometimes as it was so tense!

I liked the setting and if wasn't for the undead messing the place up, the hotel would have been really pretty!

[hudson]

Me and a few friends have just bought the definitive version for PS4 for £2.59 off the store. None of us have played it before, but I reckon we could get a decent laugh/session out of it tonight.

[QualityChimp]

Me and a few friends have just bought the definitive version for PS4 for £2.59 off the store. None of us have played it before, but I reckon we could get a decent laugh/session out of it tonight.

That's exactly what we did and it was a good laugh.

Just be careful of levelling because if someone streaks ahead away from your sessions, your character will be fighting monsters at their level.

I wanted to finish it again, but the others had enough of the relentlessly depressing atmosphere of the city.
Definitely got our money's worth, though!

I got the DLC cheap too, so may just play that on my own.

[hudson]

Thanks for the tip. Yeah, I think we will only play when we are all ready to play together. Can you dive straight into co-op or are there tutorials you must do in single player first?

[QualityChimp]

Thanks for the tip. Yeah, I think we will only play when we are all ready to play together. Can you dive straight into co-op or are there tutorials you must do in single player first?

If memory serves, there's a whole section at the start you do solo and it only goes co-op after a certain point.
Not only that, but you need to save your progression or it makes you do that opening again.

I can't remember if it's best to assign one person as the host, because I *think* their game is the one that remembers your progress.