Dead Island has landed!

Well me and my housemate got our copies of Dead Island in the post today from shopto.net (on T2D's advice, they are awesome lol) but unfortunately I am out most the evening this evening so I won't be able to get my teeth into it until tomorrow! Tried to register the DLC on the xbox.com site but it didn't like it, I wonder if it's not activated until Friday? I would assume so...

Just thought I would open a new thread for people to post their thoughts on the game, I am sure I will put a full review up tomorrow night at some point! Who am I kidding, I will probably still get back late tonight and play it until the wee hours of the morning!

Jaxx

Looks like the code won't work until Friday, called ShopTo and they confirmed.

Don't make me Jealous matey i got home to find a royal mail card with a failed delivery on it.............I know what your thinking ? but i do not have a signature required for Shopto.net deliverys.............Now i realise what happens as it comes bundled with a free tea shirt and the post man could not get it through the letterbox.

Another thing i hate about Royal mail is there collection depot times 8am till 1pm.....So now its after 2 pm and i can not collect it even though they answer the phones.

My postie does not come till after 1pm even on a good day so that collection service and times is severely flawed.

Anyway now to wipe this PC and move onto my Imac............see you guys in a few days......

Hey and take a look at THIS...........Suppose if you dont really play in third person animations then developers dont really care how it looks.............And it looks pretty dam pathetic if you ask me .

Apparently according to a lot of N4G forum posts they generally look like this .......

Posted by a N4G member.....................

They are funny but it's completely normal for an FPS, The animations are only like that so it looks right when your in the First-person view. Look at Mirrors edge in third person, it's the same XD

Edited by time2die (Wed 07-Sep-11 16:56:18)

You should get prompted to Patch the Game But im so happy that you may not be able to play it this evening as your out ...Makes me feel a whole lot better.

Code for which btw? If its the bloodbath dlc its not out until next month or something

Apparently according to a lot of N4G forum posts they generally look like this .......

[censored]?? You can keep that!

What has it got to do with the FPS view? Sounds like lazy developing again.
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I'm sorry but why should developers spend time and money on 3rd person animations for a first person game? Any first person game you force into 3rd WILL look spazzy unless it has a dedicated third person option.

Its not the way the game was meant to be played and if it wasnt for the dev command/build appearing it would never be seen? To expect them to be looking good is pathetic regardless of what game it is.

Indefensible really. Say no more.

http://segmentnext.com/2011/09/06/dead-island-crashe...
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You're a bit late but useful link i guess as it rounds up some fixes.

They [i assume deep silver] shipped the entire wrong build , its been sorted for euro release apparently though but theyre doing some form of "compensation" for it.

Assuming the audio issues are still present in the proper final build they could be solved by editting a config file from its default to openal, that solved it for people using the dev build (as said in the link).

TBH i havent heard of anyone crashing from my us friends or anything like that however if there is one thing that concerns me its the FOV, its apparently 55-60, depending how it might limit how much at a time i can play it, narrow FOV isn't good, im used to FOV's of 80-95, it makes a massive difference

They [i assume deep silver] shipped the entire wrong build .....

That's the indefensible bit. Either gross stupidity or blatantly a lie.

It's not the end of the world, but admitting it, fixing it, and then moving on would do their reputation a lot less harm. Though I doubt they have the biggest reputation to uphold anyway.

Let's hope the compo is worthwhile having.
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Totally agree, who ever did it is a massive tool and needs to pay more attention. Deep silver are the publisher, they handle everything to do with the game being distributed inc builds for digital distributors

Hahaha that looks hilarious in third person! The arms flailing all over the place! I didn't get time to play last night unfortunately but I will be hitting it for a good 6 hours this evening so will let you know what I think! Hmmmm seems a bit poor if the DLC isn't available for a month as ShopTo say the voucher is only valid for 15 days.

That video you linked T2D the graphics look nice in first person, I'm happy with that Let's see what it's like later though! Hopefully it will keep me entertained for a while, or at least the weekend!

General thoughts are that the game is OK for me, for now.

Couple of things that are annoying me though;

1) Vehicles, fence posts, etc, seem to be completely solid objects and indestructible to my vehicle driving into them, a bit unrealistic
2) Not being able to kick people from an online game

Other than that, a good effort from the devs. Couple of glitchy moments here or there but not bad as a whole.

Yawn ! more zombies. Are developers so unimaginative that they have to keep coming up with more and more zombie games? Won't be wasting my money.

Zombies will always sell, be it games, movies or TV, everyone loves a good zombie session It's pretty much the same as every other zombie game, you have different types of zombies, similar kind of story etc. but I like that it's more of an RPG. I don't think we have really had an RPG with Zombies yet, it's basically Fallout 3 crossed with Borderlands with a lot more zombies than Fallout. It's got me hooked though, the gore and the cutting of limbs is great fun, plus you get exp, everyone loves exp

Have you tried the vote kick?