Frustration Island: Refund Edition

I remember enjoying Dead Island when it was released back in 2011. I have beaten it 3 times CO-OP with different people and we enjoyed it. But playing it now brings only frustration.

The so-called "Definitive Edition" is worse than the original and you can't buy the original:

• The original had many bugs but this one has even more
• Removed some weapon mods
• Strip-down gore
• Broken physics
• Removed nudity
• Uglier graphics & runs poorly

Act I is okay, even fun. It's better to just roll the credits after the end of it and never come back. Anything beyond that is not only a waste of time, it'll actively ruin whatever enjoyment you've had with the game up to that point. Act II almost immediately becomes glitchy, stupidly unbalanced and incredibly frustrating. Endless swarms of respawning zombies. Some of them can one-shot you by throwing knives like it's a CoD game. Mobs of zombies will constantly clip through walls and floors. Don't get me started on the gunplay - it's atrocious.

The story is as generic as it can get. The characters look and talk like shit. Quests are boring and repetitive, go from point A to point B, return to point A and repeat.

Reviewed on Jun 23, 2023


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