Whelp, one good thing came out of this: I spinned up Dead Island Riptide for the first time in ~18-months, and it is a foookin' great zombie shooter (/stabber/blower-upper), 1000x better than this POS. DI zombies are dangerous AF and scary AF.

Bit wank. A couple of cool set piece bits but overall a bit wank. Underexplains and ends up not making much sense.

I'm told the book is much better.

Ta Xen. I'll probably give it a miss then. I have realised over solitary confinement that my favourite niche genre for mindless watching is action horror.

Time for a thread

The book is meh, fyi imo. Not terrible, not great, it just exists and plays out the premise from start to end. Perhaps if I was a bit more excited by the idea I'd enjoy it more?

Yeah, my understanding is that it's presented as a report or series of reports? Documentary style, like. So yeah, I think you've *got* to be into the premise to get much from it.

 

Yeah, exactly. It’s like reading a bunch of collected columns/diaries/logs. I found it quite forgettable.

One of the golden age SF writers - maybe Olaf Stapleton - wrote a book that wholly comprised reviews of imagined books. That, by contrast, was a great read as I remember.

Ditched WWZ the game, played smore DIR and even launched L4D2 just to be sure. Yep, WWZ is irredeemably bad.

I picked it up free on Epic a week or so ago. Glad you saved me the effort of trying it out :)
I noticed I have a dead island beta in my steam library. Anyone tried that?   

Beta? Like for a DI3?

Was very interesting how they turned Glasgow city centre in to New York via the magic of swapping some street signs and dotting a few yellow cabs about the place.

I feel like I must see it now. Watch out for the Zombie army massing at the corner of Tenth and Sauchiehall.

 

I remember suckyhall! (lived in Glasgow for several months winter of '76-77 while I commuted to Edinburgh College of Art)

I think its called Dead Island Epidemic. I should install it and see what it is I guess.

It's a top-down isometric game  :-S

(Fortnite is the coronavirus of gaming)

Ah, thanks for that. Doesn't look like nearly as much zombie shooting/bludgeoning fun to be worthy of the name.   :-D

The main thing they did to make it look completely unlike Glasgow was stick up "Alcoholic Beverages Prohibited" signs. I've attached a couple of photos I took at the time.