You are also informed that specific pieces of zombies can be used in upgrading your weapons in the same way you would traditionally using blueprints. How deep you decide to explore these new abilities is up to you, but you can unlock some unique skills this way. Autophage skills become available that will increase some abilities or base stats at the cost of health and stamina. After unlocking Fury Mode, you begin to learn a bit more about how your body is reacting to the virus pumping through your veins, and can choose to explore this a little bit more. The skill cards we criticised during our preview certainly do get better over time once you start experimenting with them. It also does a great job of weaving the narrative into the gameplay mechanics. It isn’t a fool-proof method by any means, but it is also never not fun. But this is only because going in hand-to-hand combat with the zombies is highly effective against some of the Apex Variants (the various mini-bosses found throughout) that up until that point I had struggled with them and their larger amount of HP. My only gripe with this is that the returning Fury Mode unlocks a little bit too far into the adventure. Even in the last few missions you are encountering new zombie variants and gameplay mechanics to keep things interesting. It is glorious and gorious and sadistically satisfying seeing an arm fly off in slow motion as you dismember thousands of the undead.ĭead Island 2 will never let the slaughtering go stale either. I have seen eyes popping out after hitting a zombie across the skull, jaws completely ripped off, tibias, fibulas and more gore than perhaps anything I have witnessed before. But what this means is that if you repeatedly attack the same body part, you can remove chunks of flesh or even the entire appendage with a bladed weapon. Zombies are anatomically accurate, albeit with parts added or missing for visual effect. Speaking of body parts, Dead Island 2 has them in abundance too. Aimlessly slashing and bashing away will usually yield results eventually, but smart Slayers will learn to utilise the information provided in the Zompedia. These can also be combined together creating chain reactions that, if executed successfully, mean you can just sit back and watch the carnage unfold before your eyes.Īs you progress, some zombies will have elemental resistances, along with weaknesses to certain body parts. And you don’t need to look too far find a jerrycan full of water, petrol or some other illicit substance and you won’t be far away from something electric or a flame source. As well as being able to upgrade every weapon with a range of elemental effects, you can take advantage of the thousands of environmental opportunities too. But look around you and Dead Island 2 is a veritable playground for you to kill zombies in a large variety of ways.ĭead Island 2 allows you to really get creative over your zombie killings. Seeing these affluent and recognisable locations overridden by the walking dead never gets boring. The original Dead Island stood out for being an idyllic getaway covered in blood, something that Dead Island 2 continues. That is, covered in gore and viscera from both human and zombies alike. These are iconic locations but you will have never seen them in this light before. You will start in Bel-Air, before heading to Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Venice Beach and Santa Monica Pier. What follows is a bloody, visceral romp through the streets and sewers of LA. A fellow immune person, his wisdom after surviving the events of Banoi proves invaluable to surviving in this newly nicknamed HELL-A. How do you find out if you are immune? Simply get bitten by a zombie and don’t turn into one.Īrriving at Emma’s house also introduces one of the survivors from the first Dead Island game, Sam “Who Do You Voodoo, Bitch?” B. And perhaps more crucially, you are immune to the deadly zombie virus. But, if you want to hear quips about zombie paedophiles, look no further than Jacob.Īfter surviving the plane crash your chosen Slayer is invited to Hollywood star Emma Jaunt’s house up in Bel-Air. None of them are what you would call ‘nice’ but there is also a large amount of inane chatter to themselves on your journey. Each have unique base stats but it is the levels of depravity to look out for. From the six you can choose from it is best to choose the one you like the least. What follows is a memorable opening as you choose your character during a zombie outbreak on the plane as it crash lands back in LA.
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