Melee weapons are emphasised to the point that firearms are not available for the first half of the game, and consist of blunt and bladed weapons. Upon leveling up, the player gains health and can invest one skill point into a skill tree and level up one of their skills.Ĭombat is carried out through either physical attacks or through the use of melee weapons and firearms. The player earns XP by completing tasks and killing enemies. Dead Island is an action role-playing game and uses experience-based gameplay. Most of the gameplay is built around combat (mainly melee weapons) and completing quests. Under the title Dead Island: Definitive Collection it bundles the game with Riptide, all DLC, and a 16-bit side-scrolling game called Dead Island: Retro Revenge.ĭead Island features an apparent open world roaming, divided by relatively large areas, and played from a first-person perspective. A remastered version of the game was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on. And a sequel, Dead Island 2 was set to be released in 2017, but has been delayed indefinitely. The spin-off, Escape Dead Island was released on 18 November 2014. While praised for its atmosphere, gameplay and playable characters, it was also criticized for large technical difficulties and in-game glitches, graphics, and most notably being hampered for lacking the emotional themes presented in the trailer.Ī stand-alone DLC expansion, Dead Island: Riptide was released in 2013. Despite the pre-release acclaim, the game received generally lukewarm reviews. September for North America/Europe and in October for Japan. However reception was nonetheless positive, with praise going towards the emotional impact, animation, and story, with the trailer being held as one of the best in any medium. The game's cinematic announcement trailer was met with controversy over its depiction of a dead child. The game was announced at the 2006 Electronic Entertainment Expo, but delayed until 2011. The plot focuses on 4 playable survivors trying to survive and escape off the fictional island of Banoi. Centered on the challenge of surviving a zombie-infested open world with a major emphasis on melee. Action role-playing, survival horror, first-person shooterĭead Island is a 2011 survival-horror action role-playing video game developed by Techland and published by Deep Silver for Microsoft Windows, Linux, OS X, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.

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