Review: Dead Island: Riptide (Xbox 360)

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Review: Dead Island: Riptide (Xbox 360)

Added: 22.04.2013 8:00 | 5 views | 0 comments

Once bitten, twice shy?

Review: Dead Island: Riptide (Xbox 360) review

It’s been described as a spin-off of the first game, which is a good call on the part of Techland and Deep Silver because if they called it a sequel they’d have been taking the piss. Riptide is basically the first game in a different location; as before, the survivors of a zombie apocalypse band together to explore their environment, looting and shooting their way to a potential escape. Dead Island’s notional appeal is in sauntering around a paradise-gone-awry - the juxtaposition of idyllic setting and total horror clashing - while thwacking your way past legions of the undead...