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Professor Jeff: Dead Island Launch Trailer
Greetings true believers! It's good to be back! Where was I? Well, I can't really tell you that, it's a secret. I mean, I could tell you, but I'd probably have to kill you. What do you think Professor Dog? He's nodding. So anyway, I'm back and let's talk about zambies! You know now that I think about it, you guys probably know too much already. Sorry about this, but I'm going to need the internet to come to my house and line up so I can, um, erase your memories. Now where did I leave that chunk of rebar?
It's a little known fact that 75% of all zombie outbreaks occur at lush island resorts.
Ahhh, zombie games... just when I think I'm out, they pull me back in. Anyone who's listened to our podcasts knows that I'm not a huge fan of the undead. As a kid, the only movie monster that scared me were zombies. As an adult I've seen the concept go from fun and original to trite, cliche, and overused in almost no time. It's one thing to put the shambling dead in your game as a little one off treat for players, but when you keep on making the same thing over and over and adding zombies it gets old reaaaal fast. Hell, I haven't even played RDR Undead Nightmare yet. It's not that I don't believe everyone who tells me that it's awesome, it's just zombie burnout.
So it's surprising how much I'm looking forward to Dead Island. When the first trailer came out, it was well made, but didn't show any actual gameplay. The fear was that anyone can hire a third party to make an awesome trailer, but it was a real possibility that the game was going to be utterly terrible. However, as more and more footage has seeped out onto the interwebs, what we're seeing seems to have the potential to blow our socks clean off. Between the MMO-esque mission structure and the incredibly satisfying melee combat, the potential was always there for a good title. But the apparent level of story and characterization shown in this new trailer could really push this title over the edge into something special.
People tend to forget that the best part about undead is not how much cherry syrup you can squeeze out of them, but their effect on the survivors trapped in the zombie apocalypse. Night of the Living Dead wasn't ABOUT zombies, it was about what happens to people in an extraordinary and frightening situation. Recently we've seen several titles that just use the undead as an enemy that the player can mercilessly murder for hours on end without any philosophical, cultural, or spiritual repercussions. That's just lazy. If you want to make a game where people kill babies by the hundreds with a speargun, balls up and do it. Don't hide behind the rotting grimaces of the recently un-deceased.
One of the most tense moments I can remember in these last few years of gaming is a level out of Resident Evil 4 where Leon and company are trapped in a house with Los Ganados trying to burst in from all sides. You start by barricading the doors and windows and then slowly retreat as the zombies eventually overwhelm your makeshift defenses and burst in. It was a tense, scary little set piece with more emotional impact than any amount of Nazi Zombie cannon fodder could ever hope to elicit. But what do you guys think? Are you sick of zombies? Do you crave more of the undead to rampantly destroy? Are you having trouble finding my house, because I found the rebar... I mean memory destabilizer.
More Hawken! That's smart.
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Tags: Adhesive Games, Dead Island, Hawken, Professor Jeff, Techland, The Loading Bar, Video Games, news
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Comment by Carolina H1tman on August 31, 2011 at 6:14pm -
I'm sorry, but the best zombie games to come out in recent years are the Left 4 Dead games. It's gonna take a lot to come to that level of great. I don't think this game is gonna do it, but I hope I'm wrong. I love zombies!!!!!
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Comment by Eugene on August 31, 2011 at 3:10pm -
Oh, cool. That does sound different. Thanks Jeff!
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Comment by Cornhorn on August 31, 2011 at 2:26pm -
dead island looks soooooooo good i love rpg's and zombies.
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Comment by Ronin Automaton on August 31, 2011 at 2:08pm -
It’s this and Lollipop Chainsaw. And maybe Never Dead. Does that one count?
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Comment by Colyn on August 31, 2011 at 1:49pm -
I'm not going to go as far as to saying that I'm tired of zombie games, but I could definitely see why anyone else would.
What makes a good zombie game is something that is original. Something that hasn't been done before. Dead Island looks like it may lack full originality by taking ideas from other games, but that does'nt mean it's going to be bad. Dead Rising + Left 4 Dead + Call of Duty: Nazi Zombies = Dead Island. All those games were great, but they were lacking something. Maybe Dead Island is the zombie game we've been waiting for.
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Comment by Lunatik on August 31, 2011 at 1:48pm -
Not really feeling the setting for it, doesnt come off as creepy enouph.
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Comment by Lt. Commander Armstrong on August 31, 2011 at 1:47pm -
Sadly to say I played Dead Island at last weekend's PAX Prime 2011, and it is frustratingly bad. The whole game is clunky and slow. The visuals are bright and at one point just became annoying to look at. Every time you kill a zombie to goes into this half a second pre-recorded movement. Also I found that wherever you walk you kind of sway a bit to the sides, like you're off balance or something. Just really under performed almost all the way across.
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Staff Comment by Professor Jeff on August 31, 2011 at 1:29pm -
@Eugene
There are quest givers throughout the world that you can choose to pick up missions from and then turn them in once completed. I guess most adventure games these days do that in some form or another, but I always think of it as MMO style.
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Comment by Travis Pickle on August 31, 2011 at 1:29pm -
Aye it looks Gore geous but how does it play Mr jeff?
;)
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Comment by Eugene on August 31, 2011 at 1:24pm
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Jeff I'm confused what you mean by the MMO structure of the missions, care to elaborate?
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