
island framing pitch, and it’s up to you to escape. L.A has been designated a quarantine zone, hence the Escape from L.A. The player, one of six chosen Slayers (we’ll get into the details later) are aboard an evacuation flight, when it crashes. The world has gone to hell, zombies do ravage the earth and you, the player character, are one of the lucky ones with immunity. It would be remiss to call the story in Dead Island 2 “more of the same” and clock off, but that wouldn’t be entirely true. When There’s No Room In Hell, The Dead Go To Beverley Hills Is it the sequel we’d long-since given up on, showing us how it’s done, or should we have abandoned hope all ye who feined enthusiasm all that time ago? Tool up, and let’s find out. It’s the usual affair: the world’s gone to pot, survivors are surviving and the undead have got a penchant for the consumption of human flesh. Various developer changes, delays and no more than a trailer had people wondering if it was going to go the way of Scalebound and Starcraft: Ghost.įortunately not, and it is finally here! A fully fleshed out sequel, set in the aftermath of L.A (which yes, isn’t an island but shut up), Dead Island 2 is kicking and maiming its way into the newest generation of consoles and PC’s. After nine years, the game that was beginning to look a lot like a myth has finally made it. But is it worth the wait? The Finger Guns review:Īs I said back in my preview, it’s still surprising to see that Dead Island 2 has finally made it. Chucking away the grimness of the first game, it's bold and bloody beautiful. After many changes and delays, Dead Island 2 is finally here.
