Get Intimate with Zombie Destruction in Dead Island
Zombies are becoming standard fair in nearly every form of popular culture it seems, so what does it take to make a game featuring the undead unique again? It looks like we’re about to find out.
Dead Island was originally announced back in 2007 by Polish video game developer Techland. Made famous for their Call of Juarez franchise, including the recently announced Cartel, Techland was never able to get a publisher for title. Its priority was pushed further and further onto the back burner until everyone pretty much forgot about it. But now Deep Silver is on board to publish the game and, after watching the trailer, you’ll see why we’re excited.
Described as a “first-person zombie-slasher/action-RPG,” Dead Island looks to stand out in the oversaturated genre by giving people as few guns as possible. Projectile weapons will be few and far between, with ammunition even more sparse. The variety of weapons found throughout the entire resort island will be at the player’s disposal. To keep things interesting after so many hours of braindead massacre, the RPG elements bring a much needed change of pace. The player can earn new skills and abilities after gaining levels and spending points in a skill tree.
Very little information about Dead Island is actually out right now. The game is currently set for a 2011 release for PS3, PC and 360, so expect much more information to drop in the coming months. PlayStation LifeStyle will be your source for your zombie-loving needs, so be sure to stay tuned.
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25 Responses to “Get Intimate with Zombie Destruction in Dead Island”
Yeah now that we have a Zombie in charge of the Gov’t they become popular in video games. Even our public schools are filled with them…they are called teachers. So playing games with Zombies should be considered REVENGE of the STUDENT BODY… LMAO
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Intense.
I forgot about this game completely. That was freaking crazy. Definitely never seen a trailer for a zombie game done this way before. Maybe this could actually be something new amidst the zombie overload.
I want to watch the trailer so bad but its not loading on my ps3, I can’t even find a youtube version either. I wish my PC didn’t break.
damned, awesome trailer, 2011 is looking great for gaming.
Depressing,
GOD DAMN IT! I was gonna make a Zombie RPG when I become an awesome badass games designer. Stop taking my bad ass gaming ideas!
Still make a zombie rpg. But reverse it where the player is the zombie and has to spread the virus. While avoiding milita and army. And a skill tree haha
Well when The Walking Dead started (I’m on a games designing course BTW) it got my wondering why nobody had made a zombie horror a lot more like the movie, the game I had in mind was a bit differant then this although your still the survivor.
TBH by the time I get into the games industry Dead Island will be a old retro game so I guess not many people would remember this to say “HEY YOU COPIED DEAD ISLAND!”
i know it doesn’t have the RPG gameplay but that premise has already been done with Stubbs the Zombie
Hahaa yeah, that would be interesting.
Whoa, that’s deep.
DAMN!
that was AWEEESOME!
Best trailer i have ever seen in my entire life
God damned FSP’s. Other than that, the trailer looked badass!
Honestly this will be the 1st zombie game that is a 1st person shooter on the ps3. so its not overdone. in fact, there isn’t enough. and no Nazi zombies doesn’t count.
now that was one awesome trailer
The very first Zombie Game Trailer that got into me!!! Damn… That was One heck of a trailer. AMAZING!!
It was a very well done trailer. But I kinda feel done with zombie games as well…
Their presence in the media mimics the very essence of what we think of when we think “zombies”. There’s an enormous never ending shitload of ‘em, every thing they touch spawns more of them, and every time you think the trend is dead it just rises again from the dead. Oh well, at least no one is gnawing my arm off to convince me to buy it… yet.
Wow, talk about emotionally stirring…
If any of you guys wanna see the trailer in reverse (proper chronological order) I embeded the video here: http://fuckedupgames.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/dead-island-trailer-in-reverse/
Sorta ruining a good thing, but still an interesting watch.
If all they are showing is a trailer with no gameplay, I doubt this will be released this year.
Well it is an announcement trailer, ya never know what else they have up their sleeve. They’re basically using this to say “Hey by the way we’re still alive, doing well thanks for asking pricks” but if we don’t seem gameplay in the next couple months then you might be right.