Dead Island is a solid action/RPG game with superb hand to hand combat and amazing visuals.

User Rating: 10 | Dead Island (Platinum Hits) X360
As a zombie games/movies fan, I was really looking forward for this title since Ive heard about its development for the first time. To put the things straight - Dead Island isnt a perfect game, it has some flaws, the storytelling could be better, same for the NPCs voice acting, but on the other side provides great gameplay with exciting hand to hand combat, nice visuals and open world to explore. In relation to combat system - Dead Island is not supposed to be a shooter and it's visible in the shooting mechanics which are not so fluent in comparison to any standard FPS title, whereas the melee combat is an immersive, close-quarter brutal fest with blood, limbs and beheaded corpses left after each encounter with zombies (and the first person view is helping to deepens this experience). As the RPG/action game, Dead Island offers a quite sizable world to explore within few different locations (holiday resort/moresby town/jungle/prison) - and we are going through each of these with an atmosphere of desperation and survival by any means. The effects of the zombie outbreak are visible everywhere and each encounter with them is thrilling, especially with the fast infected ones. On top of that zombies are very well designed and their sound is superb, with creepy growling etc. Overall I loved this game, spend more than 50hrs with it and for me its a must have for any gamer looking for an RPG/action game with zombie outbreak background.