12/31/2022 0 Comments Dead island 2 rating![]() When depleted of stamina, your character’s attacks deal no damage. Running, jumping, and other actions also use stamina. Heavier weapons will use more stamina, which is represented by a blue bar. Stamina is a big factor in Dead Island: Riptide. Your character and skills have a significant impact on how you will need to play in order to survive. These bonuses are passive and do not require you to purchase an upgrade. You also get bonuses for earning experience in hand-to-hand combat, firearms, blade weapons, and blunt weapons. The skill tree lets you invest in three categories: fury (a rage-like super ability), combat, or survival skills. Each level awards you a point that can be spent towards abilities. Dead Island: Riptide’s experience system gives you a rank starting off at level 15 and increasing from there. Zombies are supposed to scale in difficulty based on the number of players and their rank. You have your basic run-of-the-mill zombie without much health stronger “thug” zombies who are slow and have a lot of health but can dish out a lot of damage fat zombies that spit out an acid-like substance, which obstructs the screen zombies that blow up on contact and a “witch”-like zombie that is quick and deals significant damage. Several of the zombie types seem straight out of Left 4 Dead. ![]() The main downside is that there is a lot of backtracking. The developers clearly want you to explore on your own. A map gives you general directions of where missions are located, but it doesn’t prove overly useful. The game is broken up into main missions, optional side quests, and survivors along the way that you can rescue for extra money and experience. These can be found throughout the world, particularly in caves and so-called “dead zones.”ĭead Island: Riptide is an open-world experience, sort of like a Far Cry game with undead zombies lurking around every corner of the island. Blueprints allow you to craft modifications, such as a spiked bat. Weapons need to be repaired at specific repair stations as their durability lasts only so long before they are rendered useless. Some are slow, powerful and unwieldy others are quick and efficient with less damage per strike.īase weapons are weak but can be upgraded if you have the in-game money to invest in them. The variety of weapons ensures plenty of play styles. There are a huge number of ways to kill zombies: everything from pistols and shotguns to bare-knuckle brawling, everyday objects like knives, and more serious blunt objects like baseball bats and pipes. Just like its predecessor, Dead Island: Riptide focuses most of its efforts on gratuitous violence and non-stop action. Players can import their old save data from the original for seamless integration into the sequel. The same cast of characters returns along with a lone addition. Without spoiling the original game’s plot for anyone who might want to go back and play it, the story in Riptide picks up where the last one left off. Riptide is a sequel to 2011’s Dead Island, an action-RPG survival-horror game that took place on a fictional tropical island resort located off the coast of Papua New Guinea. Thankfully, its open-world multi-player take is still fairly fresh. Deep Silver’s Dead Island: Riptide is just the latest in a string of flesh-eating undead titles in the past few years. Although, it does suck that once you complete the campaign you can’t run around the island and clean up quests - so make sure you have everything done before heading into the endgame.Zombie-themed games have become so frequent that they are almost passé. Just like the original Dead Island (that's a phrase I'm saying a lot today), RPG gameplay saves Riptide from its narrative mistakes and lackluster graphics. Your quest log brims with story missions, you run into side quests wandering the sun-splashed island locales, and Techland tosses in new team missions that make the survivors at your bases more helpful in battle. But what’s so crazy is that once again, this stuff really doesn’t matter. Performance is worst on the PS3 and best on the PC, but no version is unplayable or perfect. Textures pop in, screen tearing persists, and missing frames aren’t uncommon. One failure that can't be ignored is that the world still doesn’t look that hot. ![]() It’s through these successes that the impact of Dead Island Riptide’s failures is lessened. When I was playing co-op with my roommate, I didn’t care that we were talking over a random questgiver’s monologue that person’s story didn’t matter, but our plan for getting an engine back as quickly as possible certainly did. This is why you play this game: it’s great gory fun.
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