The original Dead Island was a much wider world, but Dead Island 2 feels fuller, tucking away more stories in its limited space. Sometimes Dead Island 2 will show you glimpses of a big wide world, but your journey on foot will be more restricted than it first appears. The snapshot of a world of spoiled brats who once lived in excess now ripped and torn apart by the undead was as cynical of modern culture as Grand Theft Auto has been for decades, and enriched the world with character and history I didn't anticipate. The apology script even included prompts of when to cry and told the influencer to feign sincerity. The text of the apology implied the influencer was downplaying the outbreak to their fans-"truthing" it like we see so often in the real world when irresponsible people with microphones convince others to believe bad ideas. My favorite detail, however, was a whiteboard that contained a scripted apology that a resident influencer was tasked with delivering to their fans in the early days following the zombie outbreak. It would've been a lavish place if not for the fact that its former denizens were now shambling in and around the pool, stopping to sometimes eat the flesh of victims long since left baking in the California sun. Sports cars littered the sizable parking area, and a recording room told me about the streamers who once solicited subs and donations there.
The glass-paneled McMansion, done up with a spiral staircase, a bowling alley, and basement bar led out to an elaborate sun- and blood-soaked poolside turntable and home gym. Instead, I explored the space and found a lot of environmental storytelling that felt deeper than anything in the original game, and perhaps deeper than this game could've had if it hadn't ditched the sandbox. I had to pass through this as part of the main campaign, but I could do just that-find the key and move along. Now Playing: Dead Island 2 Isn't What We Were Expecting.Ī great example came about an hour into the game, when I trekked down the Hollywood Hills and found myself in a luxurious home/studio belonging to a media group of online influencers-rich Gen Z kids with podcasts, basically. These side attractions, be they puzzles or just temporarily inaccessible, gave me the sense that, though the world was narrower, it was also sometimes deeper.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's I encountered many locked rooms, safes, and loot caches that would each require further investigating or even backtracking, some of which wasn't possible in my limited demo. While this is a much more linear game than its predecessors, there are many optional nooks in each area. Sometimes the way these areas would snake around surrounded by unclimbable walls felt very restrictive, closer to a game as tightly set as BioShock rather than even the original Dead Island's large hubs.
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In my hands-on time with the game, I visited several areas, including the disgustingly wealthy Bel-Air, a dilapidated but probably once five-star hotel, and a formerly proud movie studio. That took some mental remapping of what this game is going to be, and while I do find the smaller scope disappointing, it's not without its benefits too.
Action-RPGs, especially zombie-centric ones, have so often utilized an open-world setting over the past 15 years that it was, for a good while, jarring to see that Dead Island 2 isn't actually the latest in a long line of them. It wasn't until two hours or so into my seven hours with Dead Island 2 when I finally understood that the linear nature of the game wasn't just part of the tutorial, and that Dambuster Studios' game wasn't going to eventually swing its proverbial doors open and reveal to me the sandbox I was looking for.
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