I would imagine at the behest of the publisher like always.

The game has been in development for a few years now (IIRC mostly cause they swapped engines they announced it at the end of the last gen so totally reworked it for current + they built the chrome 5 engine)

I think initial buyers might encounter some roughness but console users should experience a fairly decent game.

I suppose if they dont make the descision before the discs are burned then its too late.

Resistance is the same but they can blame the beta feedback. Did Dead Island have a Beta do you recall?

Jaxx is winding me up as he has dead island and poor T2D missed postman pat......................

And I thought I was the least patient gamer I knew.

I still think I'll wait for your review anyway. God, does that come over as sycophantic as it sounds!
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Hahaha unfortunately I didnt get time to play though so you will be on a level par with me today

Regarding postman, I have EXACTLY the same problem, it's frustrating if I order a game that can't fit through the door i.e. collectors pack or just anything that can't fit through my door, I get the little card saying come before it shuts at 1pm, but the postman usually comes after it! Then as well as that the main office where I need to collect them is about 15 - 20 mins drive from my house / work and I only get 45 mins for my lunch so can't really do it in time and end up waiting until Saturdays! What a palava!! Lol

We have to both put our Dead Island Tea Shirts on,Turtle Beach Headsets and see if we are pleased or as frustrated as a few others........

Well played it tonight for about 3 hours and i find the game very addictive and hard to put down,does not deserve the negative reviews and certainly not the Edge magazine score of 3/10 as that is a complete joke.

From what i have played so far i would give it at least a 8/10 and thats been mild,just love the way you rank up with so many quests and missions and zombie bashing has never been more fun.

People loved Dead Rising and i thought that game was pure pants,this is so much better and i can see me spending many hours playing this game,will pick up Resistance tomorrow but if i continue to enjoy this dead island as much as i am then i doubt very much if the plastic wrapper will come of for a fair few weeks.

Be interesting hearing about other peoples opinions that have the game like Jaxx ,since he has not posted anything so far tonight I'm guessing he is loving it like me.

Also I'm sure the guy in the lift who speaks to you as the game starts was the same guy from the original Bioshock......The voice acting is not that good and they all have Australian accents for some unknown reason,but at the end of the day its a really enjoyable game and I'm well pleased with it.

If people are expecting the same type of game as the trailer then they are in for a shock as its nothing like that and its best compared to fallout with Zombies with Borderlands thrown in for good measure with a small slice of left for dead and dead rising only 10 times better than the last game i mentioned.

Edited by time2die (Fri 09-Sep-11 00:40:06)

I played an hour or two last night with a group of mates it was fun, we did run into a few technical issues but imo it doesnt look like anything too major, the most annoying was the ingame voip being always on, needed to shuffle some device defaults to stop it (we use our own mumble server with push to talk so we dont need the voip, especially if its always on).

But yeah, seems like a good laugh, heard the voice acting, its true its not stellar levels but i'd say it does a good enough job for all the people you need to speak too and the length you have to deal with them for (i.e get quest, hand quest in). I found the ambient sound though quite disturbingly realistic for some reason, it might just me being tired to but hearing those seagulls i thought damn its early for those things to be out, look outside and no seagulls, all ingame...

IMO i find it hard to compare the game with the feb trailer... I keep thinking if i did what would i be expecting? A more individual game? A more survivalist game? I dunno, only games i can think of when that happens is res evil 4 and i dont think anything can come close to that.

But yeah, so far a good laugh esp with mates

Been playing for a few hours not sure what I think! Enjoying bashing zombies but not so much the constant collecting and upgrading etc. Feel that it slows the gameplay down a bit! Been playing with 2 other friends done quite a lot of sidequests maybe I need to do more of the story and see if it grips me! I like the graphics when you look out over the island it looks nice! Not found too many bugs as of yet but seen a few glitches! Will keep playing for a day or so and see how I get in I think.

Done alot more of the main story now and it has me hooked, loving the knives and scythes