We’re really getting our money’s worth out of this paradise over-run with the undead groaning corpses.
EDI isn’t so much a sequel to Dead Island, or Dead Island Riptide, than a comic footnote which serves only as a rickety bridge to Dead Island 2, out next year. It’s priced accordingly, though, and there’s something to be said for the straight-up approach of this cheapish zombie-slicer.
Particularly for fans of a certain island-based television programme.
The graphics of the previous instalments have been scribbled over with stylised cartoons, similar to that employed so effectively in the Borderlands titles.
We follow three stereotype-soaked teens who, high on journalistic promise, take a boat to Zombie Central and have difficulty stringing together realistic sentences. These two matters aren’t necessarily connected, but it is a shame the dialogue isn’t tighter.
The survival-exploration-mystery balance of Escape is on the money, and the shadow of Lost looms large over its story.
You won’t be indulging in matters befitting a more expensive game, like crafting weapons or hunting your own food. It’s also linear as hell and deep as a wafer.
But its simplicity is a strong point for the gamer who enjoys his zombie-pulping uncluttered.
Out on PS3, Xbox 360, PC
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