Played this a bit more yesterday, one of the regular campaigns, not the 'quick play' which was on a cruise ship as it happens. This one was in NYC, fighting through an upscale shoping mall, onto the street and into the subways. Surprisingly substandard for a 2019 release (wtf?) ... guns suck, zombies really suck (even the boss zombies aren't scary in the least), characters are meh. But I have to say the levels are gorgeous. Epic fail then.
“a man gets struck by lightning and goes “zzzt”, Jason gets shot and dies and the submarine blows up.”
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.
“a man gets struck by lightning and goes “zzzt”, Jason gets shot and dies and the submarine blows up.”
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
"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked."
James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951
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.
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.
"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked."
James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951
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?
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.
