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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 PITBULL # 2 on September 1, 2011 at 11:16pm -
No Trust me Fallout with zombies. Same basic Upgrade system.
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Comment by Exploding Knees on September 1, 2011 at 7:40pm -
Boner.
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Comment by jeff the dog on September 1, 2011 at 12:23pm -
i still say booyah every now and then
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Comment by Agent_O on September 1, 2011 at 11:42am -
black people still say booyah? I agree with SoundGraden, they didn't even try with that character. If that's the best these game companies can come up with when it comes creating black characters then they should start getting out more.
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Comment by jeff the dog on September 1, 2011 at 11:20am
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Hawken havent seen that game in forever
but cant wait for Dead Island
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Comment by PITBULL # 2 on September 1, 2011 at 8:38am
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Ok FYI People. Dead Island is FALLOUT with Zombies. ;) Played it.
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Comment by SoundGraden on September 1, 2011 at 8:02am -
Another black guy stereotype, like sam b couldn't just be a normal person like everyone else.Geez, I'm not getting this game.
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Comment by Joseph E T Hughes on September 1, 2011 at 12:08am -
The thing is, though I love for Left 4 Dead, while it's certainly an amazing co-op game, it's not really that awesome of a zombie game. Zombies just happen to be the horde of enemies they went with, rather than the experience really revolving around them. Hell they could be aliens or vampires or an army of gingerbread men, and it would still retain the core experience. Dead Island looks like it may be the awesome "zombie" game a lot of people have been holding out for.
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Comment by ArmedVegan on August 31, 2011 at 9:22pm -
I agree on the story of the people in a disastrous time sounds good. The game looks like fun and I look forward to playing it. Hawken looks fun too. Thanks for the coverage@
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Comment by Hawkeyes on August 31, 2011 at 7:24pm -
i loved the first left 4 dead. it was simple, but if you had a few friends, and were playing against a competitive team in versus, it could get very tense and crazy.
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