Recently my friends Jamie, Shadey and I completed a play through of Dead Island 2. Released in April 2023, Dead Island 2 is a first person action role-playing game developed by Dambuster Studios. I never played the original Dead Island released back in 2011, but I knew it was a massive hit with its gory hack and slash zombie theme.
As a stand alone game I enjoyed playing Dead Island 2. As well as a decent co-operative mode allowing up to 3 players to play side by side, I liked the exploration, puzzle solving, boss fights and story. I found the main story line funny at times and I really like most of the sound track. I recognized a few tracks such as Humans Are Such Easy Prey by Pertubator from his Dangerous Days album, and I really like the main theme song, Drown by Karen O. There are 6 characters to choose from, I chose Ryan who at first I thought was a firefighter but turned out to be a stripper. My friends chose Dani and Bruno who are both pretty funny and unhinged.
One thing I really like in games are stats. I do not think my stats are particularly good, but here are some of mine after around 33 hours of play time. One thing which made my friends laugh was getting 0 perfect blocks and dodges. This is something I must have missed during the tutorial.
Having completed the game I feel like I can safely add it to my list of completed games. There are no difficulty settings so we played the game as the developers intended and to top it off we played through the Haus and SOLA story lines which arguably we didn’t need to do but I felt it was important. After taking a break to play The Forest and Goat Simulator 3 it felt good to return to Dead Island 2 to play these and wrap things up.
There is still so much more to do. There are many side quests, journals to find, challenges to complete and named zombies to slay. Not to mention loot to find. I think someone could easily sink another 100 hours completing everything and getting all of the achievements.
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