Kow wrote:

Maybe the enemies have levelled up. You can repair stuff anyway, can't you?

Yeah, they're definitely levelling up but the draw of keeping my fancy stuff over white means I'm making it harder for myself.

Next sledge I find will be pimped out to Shark, just need some damn elusive weight plates.

I'm using a white two handed axe that is better than an orange cleaver that's a few levels lower. I think the rarer ones can sometimes seem worse than white, but have better durability etc.

Eventually I just carried the weapons that filled my quick selection, and about 2 or 3 spare. Got fed up with carrying lots of weapons as I only generally used about 3 anyway, with different stats for different situations.

Elmlea wrote:

That is not better than Borderlands, btw.  That's a terrible way to do it, you may as well not bother playing co-op!

Borderlands' nuanced system meant you gained a tangible benefit from playing with higher-level characters as they could take the majority of the damage and do the majority of the killing, but you'd still benefit because of the shared XP.

I don't see the logic here Elm. Surely just standing there while your mates kill everything is a worse way to play co-op than everyone being able to get stuck in equally?

Yeah I'll be there. I might just stand there and watch you lot mash up zombies for me as I hear that's the best way to 'play' these games.

Break both her arms with a baseball bat covered in broken glass. Or Sky+ it or something less violent.

have you ever played dead island elm? it does make sense for you to give it a go before engaging in lengthy criticism based on a review! after, however, i can certainly see where people mightpick fault with the game, but it's quite enjoyable nethertheless

i think my biggest gripe with the game is actually the setting (paradoxicaly i suppose. maybe the island could be near the shetlands instead or something) , i never like overhot seeming too-yellow and bright colours, it's made quite a few games uncomfortable for me

I'm convinced the reviewer never made it as far as the city as I don't seem to remember it being mentioned. I loved using the rooftops as a way to escape the zombies...

Played a bit more last night. It's fun, but definitely a mixed bag. The world is solid and appears large. The mechanics are a bit of a mess, but they're not terrible and everything seems to have a purpose.

Weapons wearing down is particularly annoying, but the possibility of running out of weapons keeps the tension up and made me stay on track when doing missions. It's contrived, but saves the game from being too easy. It's already managed to give me a bit of a phobia of cabanas and swimming pools.

The combat is a bit basic and very hit and miss, that pays off in a bizarre way - when you do fluke a decapitation on a charging zombie it feels amazing.

The mission structure would be my biggest gripe, it really is fetch quest leading to fetch quest. Tonally it's b-movie cheese and not in a good way. Plastic character models, bad Australian soap acting, overcooked lighting and an almost fantasy setting kill any sort of realism or horror. I think a lot of people would have liked it more with a darker and more horrific tone, the problem with that is that those sort of games are harder to sell.

I'm certainly finding it worth £15, there's plenty here to enjoy without it being a classic.

It might stay a while. They sold out recently and it took a few days for stock to get in. My copy arrives this Friday, apparently. Along with a bunch of X Files DVDs and some Alan Moore comics.

It's £15 in Tesco.

Hurry up and catch up Iain, it's much better in co-op.

Webbins wrote:

...and Act II is much darker.

The best bit of the game (though I did enjoy the prison), Act II almost seems like a different game to the holiday island setting. This is why I don't think the reviewer played through the whole game.

Subbax wrote:

They seemed to have squeezed in every accent they can think of. I swear I heard a scouser and I'm just waiting for a Mexican now.

Just like working at Tesco eh!

Played for a few hours, really good fun. But the map doesn't tell us where to go anymore even though we have just been given a mission to find some pills and bandages for some dying woman.

Halp!