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7.7
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Score Breakdown Based on 4592 ratings
  1. 10 (603)
  2. 9 (1336)
  3. 8 (1378)
  4. 7 (637)
  5. 6 (247)
  6. 5 (131)
  7. 4 (59)
  8. 3 (60)
  9. 2 (37)
  10. 1 (104)

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  • Rating:5

    Feels half baked

    Dead Island offers a pretty decent take on the zombie genre. It's very much RPG in style and can offer several hours worth of content but it is still very much a deeply flawed game.Out of all the main and side missions t... Read Full Review

    1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:6

    Left 4 Dead in an Open World?

    Dead Island has always reminded me of Left 4 Dead, it has the zombie theme, the gameplay is very similar, and there are special zombies, very similar to Left 4 Dead, well the game is open world, and I found the idea cool... Read Full Review

    1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:7

    Dead Island Review

    Open world zombie game.Actualy the whole idea of the game was awesome,but bugs,poor campaign and too many modders who made the game too easy.I was really hyped about that game and the game lived up my expectations!The w... Read Full Review

    1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:6

    Left 4 Dead in an Open World?

    Dead Island has always reminded me of Left 4 Dead, it has the zombie theme, the gameplay is very similar, and there are special zombies, very similar to Left 4 Dead, well the game is open world, and I found the idea cool... Read Full Review

    1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:7

    why bad graphecs and so little blood

    graphes remind me of border lands i hate games thet have bad graphes up side a good choce of wepons down side not a lot of fire arms if it had more fire arms maybe i would give it an eight more zombies is a must if you ... Read Full Review

    1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:7

    Dead Island is a unique, intriguing experience merged with a few annoyances that occasionally drown the potential.

    "Dead Island is a unique, intriguing experience merged with a few annoyances that occasionally drown the potential."Positive- Beautiful island that is strangely unsettling and fitting for a horror game- First-person mel... Read Full Review

    1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:3

    Dead Island

    Dead Island, this game is bad in so many ways, from barely manageable console controls to zombies with arms unaccountably far longer than they appear.Real annoyances the complete futulity of upgrading anything or leveli... Read Full Review

    1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:9

    Dead Island review

    Overview:Dead Island is an open-world, post zombie-inducing-contagion-outbreak first person action RPG, in the archetypal sense of modern, scientific zombie mythos, rooted as much as possible [we assume because they cre... Read Full Review

    1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:8

    Great Zombie Game

    Dead Island pleasently suprised me. Getting average reviews, and looking kind of gross, my expectations were not very high. But Dead Island proved to be a fun and entertaining game.The open world setting is fantastic. Y... Read Full Review

    1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:7

    A fun, moody adventure

    Overall the game is FUN. It's satisfying to bash zombies over the head with machetes, sickles, pans, really anything you can find or if you are more technical there are shotguns, grenades, rifles, etc. Not to mention tha... Read Full Review

    1 of 1 users found the following review helpful