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If Dead Island sounds familiar to you, then you have a good memory. It was originally announced in 2007, but no publisher was officially attached. Techland worked on other projects in the years since, but Dead Island was slowly shuffling along in the background. Now, Deep Silver is on board, and the game seems likely to see the light of day. It's scheduled for a 2011 release on Xbox 360, PC and PS3, but no specific dates have been revealed yet.

The Royal Palms Resort is perched on the remote island of Banoi in Papua New Guinea. It's a tropical paradise turned tourist magnet, remote and exotic. Not the sort of place you'd expect to find scattered caches of weapons, boxes of grenades, rocket launchers leaning against walls, and mounted machine guns. In an effort to preserve that reality, Techland, the developers of Dead Island, have stripped those handy gaming conventions away, leaving a stark reality in their place.
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Source: http://au.ps3.ign.com/articles/115/1150440p1.html
 
Pretty damn impressive. Any info around for this game? I'll have a look later if no one else posts it first.

Edit: Too slow. Thanks Jordz
 
Looks awesome! Graphics remind me of Heavy Rain, and love the 'memento' effect with the trailer being played in reverse. Very creative!

Here's a trailer breakdown and analysis by IGN, which reveals more about the possible plot and mystery surrounding the zombie outbreak:

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Kid Presentable said:
Are these the best graphics ever? Close by my books!!
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It's just the trailer, wait until screenies come out regarding the graphics. The game does look interesting though!

Edit; HBK619 beat me to it.
 
Tairy Greene said:
The game does look interesting though!
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Yeah, because there's not many games that have Zombies in the plot. ;)

The preview looks great, but like all games, it'll have to bring something new to the table, and some truly great gameplay to hit the mark.
 
There are already games with zombies in the plot??? ;) Nah, I was going by off what the IGN guys were saying about the game itself, sandbox style, make your own weapons, different type of zombies, etc. I know games have done these things before, but have they done them all together?
 
Tairy Greene said:
There are already games with zombies in the plot??? ;) Nah, I was going by off what the IGN guys were saying about the game itself, sandbox style, make your own weapons, different type of zombies, etc. I know games have done these things before, but have they done them all together?
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Dead Rising?

I hadn't really heard about this up until this trailer. The:spade: trailer seems to be steering the game down the whole 'tug at your emotions' trail rather than a straight out zombie action adventure survival horror title which I think was what this project was when first announced?

Also not sure if it's been mentioned but this is being made by Techland, the same guys that were behind Call of Juarez: BiB. Mixed verdicts on that game IIRC.
 
SpaceCow said:
Dead Rising?

I hadn't really heard about this up until this trailer. The:spade: trailer seems to be steering the game down the whole 'tug at your emotions' trail rather than a straight out zombie action adventure survival horror title which I think was what this project was when first announced?

Also not sure if it's been mentioned but this is being made by Techland, the same guys that were behind Call of Juarez: BiB. Mixed verdicts on that game IIRC.
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It'll definitely have a similarity to Dead Rising in a lot of aspects. But I think that they're also really playing hard on the survival horror aspect which was never really something that Dead Rising didn't play too much on the horror or survival stuff, it was more "get through these ****ing hordes of zombies" kind of a game. So maybe in that respect it'll be similar to a Condemned (with the FP action and all), only a lot more open than Condemned.

Plenty of potential.
 
HBK619 said:
It'll definitely have a similarity to Dead Rising in a lot of aspects. But I think that they're also really playing hard on the survival horror aspect which was never really something that Dead Rising didn't play too much on the horror or survival stuff, it was more "get through these ****ing hordes of zombies" kind of a game. So maybe in that respect it'll be similar to a Condemned (with the FP action and all), only a lot more open than Condemned.

Plenty of potential.
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Yeah, pretty much my train of thought on it.
 

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I have never been a big fan of the zombie slasher style games but this game actually looks quite intersesting and like it might have an enthralling story line to it.
 
SpaceCow said:
The:spade: trailer seems to be steering the game down the whole 'tug at your emotions'
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NFS !!!!!!!!! :eek:
Maybe i'm getting softer in my old age but can't recall ever being moved as much by a video game trailer !!!!!!
( gets up and goes to pantry for some concrete pills )
 
OMG, CGI people!

It will look like any other game out there, far out.
 
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http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/02/this-is-what-dead-island-the-game-looks-like/
 

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Bit disappointed at the preview for this. Sounds more or less like Dead Rising on an open world island, was hoping for something a bit more serious and survivalistic.

Anticipation has died down a bit now for me.

Source: http://au.xbox360.ign.com/articles/115/1153496p1.html
IS DEAD ISLAND ANYTHING LIKE ITS DEBUT TRAILER?
Serious. Somber. Disturbing. These are words I would use to describe Dead Island's amazing debut trailer.

You saw it, right?

Today I got to see about 15 minutes of Dead Island in action. What words would I use to describe the gameplay?

Silly. Wacky. Goofy.

Oh, and fun.

When developer Techland played Dead Island for me today, they chose the stereotypical "video game black guy" character. As he ran around slicing up zombies and bashing in their heads, he would exclaim things like, "Daaaaaamn, that bitch was huge!" and "You a dead bitch now!" Imagine hearing that sort of commentary over the trailer that depicted the tragic death of a young girl.
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As much as I love games, you can kinda see why people like Roger Ebert don't take them seriously, haha

"When developer Techland played Dead Island for me today, they chose the stereotypical "video game black guy" character. As he ran around slicing up zombies and bashing in their heads, he would exclaim things like, "Daaaaaamn, that bitch was huge!" and "You a dead bitch now!" "

What is it with racists and zombie games??? :D
 
Valentino Dmitri said:
As much as I love games, you can kinda see why people like Roger Ebert don't take them seriously, haha

"When developer Techland played Dead Island for me today, they chose the stereotypical "video game black guy" character. As he ran around slicing up zombies and bashing in their heads, he would exclaim things like, "Daaaaaamn, that bitch was huge!" and "You a dead bitch now!" "

What is it with racists and zombie games??? :D
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That's whack
 
Don't be surprised if this game gets banned under the stupid aus games classifications.
 

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