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# You played Dead Island yet?
It's begging for a 'How to play...'
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 15:08, archived)
# I'm sure it is, but I'm not dumb enough to pay full price for it :D
(I helped save b3ta! JollyJack - a stench from the past, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 15:11, archived)
# im enjoying that massively at the moment.
mainly because im playing from start to finish with 3 good mates on co-op. Dont think it would be as much of a laugh in single player though.
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 15:12, archived)
# Do you argue over who calls shotgun when riding in the truck?
It's vom-inducing if you have to sit in back.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 15:19, archived)
# nah - i dont like driving anyway, as the slightest error or wrong turn results in groans and moaning from my mates
Its quite funny trying to rob the cash bounty off the dead zombies before your mates do though :-D

You got to the city yet? Its fantastic there - so much more tense and scary than left 4 dead. Very atmospheric. I genuinely thought the entire game took place on the island, so i was well chuffed i had a whole new, bigger area to explore.
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 15:23, archived)
# Nope, still blundering round the resort.
I'm a big L4D fan, so it will have to be pretty damn good to beat that. The aussie accents crack me up, it's like "Home & Away - The Bloodening". That and the shit dramatic music you get when you visit the survivors in the lighthouse. :D
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 15:28, archived)
# Apart from the uncanny valley NPCs and a few lighting issues
I'm not sure what all the whining is about. It's great fun smacking zombies over the head with a baseball bat and the maps are very atmospheric.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 15:15, archived)
# All I've heard is that it A) Doesn't live up to the brilliant trailer.
and B) It's like a bland Dead Rising (Which I love, but I'll be the first to admit - it played like a dog).

I'll get to it eventually, but I'm not paying £40 for somthing that MIGHT not be as bad as people are saying.
My gut usually does me well when it comes to games.
(I helped save b3ta! JollyJack - a stench from the past, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 15:18, archived)
# I'd wait until it's patched. There's a wall of bugs listed on the Steam forums
I've had a few annoying hangs but it's not crashed or anything.
It doesn't live up to the trailer, but then I'm not sure anything would. (The game intro was a bit jarring because of that - basically a first-person piss-head cam of the night before the morning after the zombie apocalypse with swears). I have to say I like it more than Dead Rising so far, but it's similar in some ways.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 15:24, archived)
# it plays LOTS better than dead rising
no crushing time limits, shitty human bosses, its a lot more fun, and its SO good being genuinely scared of a few zombies, rather than a million all bunched together. A standard zombie encounter can go really wrong if you handle it poorly. They can attract their mates, and generally overwhelm you. You really have to make decisions if you want to explore that bit, just because its nearby. Its the most 'simulator-y' zombie survival game ive played. Very in-depth.

Dead rising was one of the most maddening games ive ever played, and one of the rare few i never finished. Bought the sequel thinking they fixed the problems i hated in it, and nope - they didnt.
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 15:26, archived)
# Nout beats kicking one into a swimming pool
and watching the "Urrrrggghhh"ing shit drown :)
(I helped save b3ta! Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 15:28, archived)
# i had one quest
where a grief stricken man asks us to go to his house and kill his wife and daughter, who have succumbed to the zombie-ness. We respectfully agree to the quest, and begin our sombre trip to his house.

When we get there, we chop his wife's arms and legs off with an electrified machete, leaving her spasming corpse twitching with electricity, then all 4 of us surround her daughter and kick her to death on the floor. We then steal all his stuff lying around the house.
We go back to the safehouse and tell him we ended their suffering. He thanks us emotionally.

Its great :-D
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 15:32, archived)
# Ha ha
^ This pretty much sums it up. Robbing stuff off corpses and beating the shit out of them if they get up.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 15:35, archived)
# ^^^^hahahaha very much this
I do actually enjoy bullying straggler zombies, randomly kicking them into the ground face-first. It's very weird in that respect.
(I helped save b3ta! Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 15:45, archived)
# ive just learned the head stomp skill, and its SO satisfying :-D
Kick them over, stomp their head - job done!
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 15:48, archived)
# Booting them down some steps comes
pretty close. ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 15:33, archived)
# Playing it on the PC at the mo
Cost me £6 off Play.com as I had a fair bit of credit on the site; this is a real Marmite game as far as I can tell. The reviewers have been arguing like hell; personally I love my level 13 Sutcliffe Hammer...remember, if it ain't a Peter you're not a beater!
(I helped save b3ta! Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 15:22, archived)