Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Dead Island Preview (Xbox360)

http://www.strategyinformer.com/xbox360/deadisland/612/preview.html

Like most things, Dead Island is a lot more fun in a team. And in our latest play-test we put the four-player co-op side of the game through its paces. There's a hidden strategy to walking around in a group ,as each playable character has a certain function. Xian Mei, for example, is an 'assassin' class. whereas Sam B is a tank. Zombies are more likely to go straight for Sam than Xian, so it's a matter of using these known behaviours to your advantage. Still, the different classes have slightly less meaning in single-player as there's no group that follows you around.It's just you and so a lot of the strategy of taking on the undead denizens is lost.