Thankfully, if you’re joining a co-op session you can take all your weapons and skills across with you – which is a God send when you’re mate is a much higher level with better gear than you.ĭo you like collecting loot and resources until your bags are full? If you answered “Yes”, you’ll love this game.

The game does feature co-op, with the difficulty slightly increasing when playing through the game as a team. Yes I did, and I did it in the name of this review. Named FLESH, or Fully Locational Evisceration System for Humanoids, the function sees each zombie layered from the skin to bones and organs, creating incredibly detailed and gory kills.ĭid I excessively slice up a zombie to see how each layer was exposed and how far it could go? Yes. In fact, the team at Dambuster Studios created entirely new technology to make sure every layer of rotting flesh is on show.

READ MORE: Final Fantasy XVI’s award winning potentialĮvery attack with a weapon is categorically brutal, tearing off layers of flesh and snapping bones with every swing. If you’re going into this thinking there’s just a little bit of blood and a couple of severed limbs – think again.

Whether you’re new to the series or have been readily waiting all this time, I’m happy to say it delivers. It depicted a man jogging up the Venice Beach boardwalk, listening to music, oblivious to the chaos unfolding around him.įans eagerly awaited more news, and now, after almost 10 years and a couple of studio changes, Dead Island 2 is here and ready for players to sink their teeth into and it’s an absolute blood bath of a game.įor the past week, I’ve been swinging machetes and sledgehammers into faces and launching Molotov cocktails into hordes of terrifying flesh-eaters – it’s been a blast! Back in 2014, Dead Island 2 was announced at E3 with one of the most memorable game trailers ever.

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