Review: Dead Island Riptide (This Is My Joystick)

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Review: Dead Island Riptide (This Is My Joystick)

Added: 01.05.2013 17:17 | 17 views | 0 comments

Sequels; love em or hate em, theyve been an important part of this generation. Rather than taking risks on new IPs, many publishers have played it safe and stuck to tried and tested franchises that are guaranteed to bring the cash flowing in. With developers and publishers downscaling and going out for the count left right and centre, you cant really blame them either. Yet sequels dont have to be a bad thing. Weve been treated to some fantastic trilogies and more-ogies during this console cycle; Uncharted, Gears of War, Mass Effect, Assassins Creed and Bioshock just to name a few. In these examples, every successive release stuck to the formula that fans loved whilst making refinements that kept it fresh. Sure, there may have been some missteps and divisive opinions over those changes, but at least you can say they tried something new. Which is a lot more than can be said about Techlands Dead Island: Riptide.