Sometimes addicting, sometimes lacking a je-ne-sais-quoi
User Rating: 7 | Dead Island (Platinum Hits) X360
I finally beat the game. Starting it I found the panorama to be quite amazing. A resort, some nice places, beaches, and a macabre set full of blood, solitude and zombies. The first hours of the game saw me addicted to it, wanting to search for new places and find cool special areas. The game does good impressing you from the start and painting amazing scenes of dead and gives you quite the feeling that if a zombie pandemonium happened at an island it would be like this. As the game keeps going you find yourself walking a lot, even though its fun and you can use cars as well. In certain moment you feel things are getting boring as side-quests can be repetitive or somewhat stupid (talking about their individual plot), but then something happens and as you explore the whole island there is this sensation that you need to keep looking for amazing places. At certain point I kind of felt I was playing Oblivion, but with zombies. Nevertheless, the characters in the game lack of reality and the voice acting is quite bad so you don't feel connected to their histories. At the start I heard what they said but then I started skipping their dialogues. Some side-quests seem to be there just because the creators thought they needed to add more as, maybe, the game was too short or something, so I, as a quest-grinder, completed them and got nice rewards but not that great to complete them. even though if you get involved with the game, you might like them, as I did. At the second half of the game I started to get bored because of these side quest I was completing that really didn't add much to the game. At elast they could have added some psychological dialogue or history behind them but it is just "go from here to there and then back and kill zombies". But I want to say it was fun for a while. When I got bored I started to follow the main quest and found it interesting enough to keep playing and at the end I grinded for many hours to see how would the game finish. I have to say I am happy with the plot in some way, I liked killing zombies and the weapons and customization. The graphics are not very good, but they do enough to let you feel like you are really in an evil island. Finally, it didn't end being the Oblivion game I though it was as the game is not full of the great details Oblivion's got and the plot doesn't grow on you as much. But the game was thrilling, entertaining and fun while the hype lasted, and it lasted quite enough to make it a memorable, not classic though, game time.
