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After a zombie virus sweeps across a beautiful island resort, survivors must fight their way to freedom while trying to find out exactly what went down in this open-world first-person action game.
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"Technical blemishes aside, you might be surprised how well loot-driven open-world questing and a tropical zombie apocalypse go together."
5 ★ (5)
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2 ★ (1)
1 ★ (1)

Gorgeous remaster and tech issues fixed - welcome back to Banoi, folks!

Dead Island: Definitive Edition is a remaster of the original 2011 multi-platform game bundled together with the downloadable content and is a much cleaner, improved version of the game - making it th… Read more

Dead Island is a heck of a game

If you love killing zombies, this is the game for you. You're on the Island of Banoi and suddenly you are in troubl,e: you find yourself surrounded by zombies and you must do anything to survive. You… Read more

Dead Island is a heck of a game

If you love killing zombies, this is the game for you. You're on the Island of Banoi and suddenly you are in troubl,e: you find yourself surrounded by zombies and you must do anything to survive. You… Read more

Dead Island Review

Dead Island is finally the RPG that every zombie slayer fan has been waiting for: a beautiful open world game, with an intriguing story and a fluid combat system. Guts, gore, bones and blood will all… Read more

Dead Island Review

Let’s cut the crap and get straight to the point. Dead island is a game that will likely divide the masses. Fans of the RPG genre should at least take it for a spin. Those familiar with the Fallout ga… Read more

Dead Island (or more like 7/10 Island?)

Dead Island, though announced back in the age of Red Rings and COD4, came to prominence only recently, when a moving, original CGI trailer was released. This led many viewers to expect an emotive, com… Read more

A slow descent into brain dead boredom.

Wow, this game is broken on many levels. Glitches and freezing are abound in this zombie game. Aside from decent melee combat, this is your typical MMO inspired open world game. My main problems with… Read more

RPG-Lite, Heavy Zombie Blood, not too much more.

Video Review More often than not if a game has some truly fun gameplay and mechanics they can usually carry the other aspects of the game – like story, shortage of features, and technical polish—that… Read more

My favorite game

I liked this game so much especially when you play it co-op. It has great look and raphics and also it is easy to understand.This game became familiar to me and to my friends in about 1 hour only of p… Read more

Dead Island is a swell place to be if you're not dead

Zombies. Not the most original theme, but an intriguing one. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I first heard about this game. A cross between the two big name franchises in the genre namely Left 4 Dea… Read more

Issues as contagious as a deadly zombie bite

You remember that trailer, right? The one that told the harrowing story of a small family torn apart by a fleshthirsty zombie infestation. The one with the slick editing, beautiful music, memorable im… Read more

Milk it.

Dead Island is a long game with a short list of variety. In Dead Island you get to choose from a shallow list of shitty characters that are so bad you don't actually want to pick any of them. But that… Read more

Loaded with problems but fun

When I first heard about Dead island I thought it sounded new and fun, then I hear that it is from the makers of Call of Juarez: The Cartel . Check out this review to see to see how bad the game is .… Read more

Grinding meat has never been so entertaining

Dead Island is an open world, melee focused, zombie themed game that has completely caught me off guard. The game is a really weird hybrid and plays very different from what one would expect by watchi… Read more

The Best Zombie Game Yet?

Dead Island is another in a recent trend of zombie games to come out in the 21 century. From movies to video games, zombies and vampires are competing for video media domination. In the video game wor… Read more

A Vacation To Remember

I can't remember the last time I enjoyed messing around grinding in the first portion of a game thanks to the addictive melee combat system & getting those pretty exp points to pop up! That you'll… Read more

Rough around the edges

I have to admit I am big fan of all things Zombie, so the general idea behind dead Island immediately appealed to me, deserted on a holiday island that has been hit by a Zombie Virus ? Sign me up ! I… Read more

If you're prepared to put in time, there is fun to be had here.

Dead Island is a fine example of a game that fails to really capitalise on its concept, there are great ideas present in the game but they are held back by the sheer volume of small annoyances that pl… Read more

Vacation in Hell

Story: The four protagonists of the game whom you will be able to play The story of Dead Island takes place on the beautiful tropical island of Banoi, just off the shore of New Guinea. While the islan… Read more

Welcome to Banoi. You'll love your neighbors...

Dead Island breaths a bit of new life into the popular Zombie-game franchise by offering up plenty of exploration, intense combat, and seamless co-op that will keep you engaged for hours on end. The v… Read more

My dead Island

After playing Dead Island on PC with an Xbox controller for about twenty-five hours I can really appreciate the work that was put in designing the world and the Ass-holes populating it. It is a surpri… Read more

Go for the Head!

Dead Island is the newest game from developer Techland (The people behind the Call of Juarez series) and publisher Deep Silver ( Nail'd , Risen , My Animal Centre just to name a few). To best describe… Read more

Zambies!

Dead island, at long last I got to play this after hearing about it years ago, and it didn't disappoint! First I'd like to point out a few things that stand out for me, both good and bad. The combat i… Read more

Pish

Boring, repetetive, Polish console port rubbish, even lopping off heads gets boring in the first five mins as the animations are so poor and all the same. FUCK THIS CRAPPY GAME and praise Mithras or w… Read more

perfect blend

I've been long on the hunt for the addictive game that would potentially last longer than 2 weeks before burning me out, and alas! I found it! Recently I've been diving more and more into the open wor… Read more

Crazed

Finally, A zombie game that is Free Roam. Love this game. I love how you can customize weapons by using Mods. However, Never was a huge fan of Grand Theft Auto and it kind of has a similar look about… Read more

A flawed, yet fun, Apocalypse

Dead Island , Techland's long awaited zombie game, finally made a big splash early this year with a CG trailer that got people enthralled - a beautiful, touching take on the tried and tested Zombie Ap… Read more

A Fantastic Disaster

Dead island is by no means a good looking game. It gets the job done with good skin modeling on the enemies with body parts falling apart in semi-realistic ways, if you wail on a guys arm with a baseb… Read more

Killing Zeds and slurping energy drinks

Loving it so far after the patches. There is some jankiness with movement but that will likely be fixed with upcoming patches, as long as the developer continues supporting it. The gameplay has been s… Read more

While Numerous Bugs Hinder It, Dead Island Is Still A Good Time

At a glance, Dead Island doesn’t seem to be anything special. It looks like yet another first-person shooter with a survival horror theme, a mash up that gamers are all too familiar with. However, in… Read more

Zombies ARE back, Brad. At least for a moment...

Left for Borderlands. Good enough COOP. Decent loot management. Interesting environments. This game has these things. But if the repetitive combat was as shallow as it appears at first, a few bullet p… Read more

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