While it’s certainly not the game-changing first trailer for Dead Island, today’s just-released trailer attempts to give a tug to those same heartstrings with music right out of a Hallmark commercial matched to in-game footage.
I’m still on the fence on this one – I just cannot get with Dead Rising at all, which appears to be Dead Island‘s closest analogue – but McWhertor’s hands-on with the first hour has assuaged my fears for the time being. A melee-heavy zombie game could be fun.
DNR
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 8:55 AMGotta Admit at the very lease these trailers and there “heart strings” music make me very interested.
Drunkin Punkin
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 11:50 AMLet’s hope the narrative is a little better than most zombie games. This would make the horror better too.
Resident Evil wasn’t bad but it moved very quickly into monsters and evil corporations. The fact that the main character is a trained cop/special forces person kinda alleviates the horror.
Steve
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 1:37 PMLoved the first trailer they released, if the game can hold that kind of tension/character buy in it could be a sneaky contender for GOTY :)
Scott
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 1:38 PMZombies are scary because if you get infected through a scratch or thier blood in an open wound…you become one of them.
This changes everything, you act differently, think differently and everything becomes important.
If your conveniently “immune” in all these “zombie” games, then the care factor is gone and you may aswell imagine your slaughtering orcs and goblins.
Joe Mama
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 4:02 PMIt also doesn’t help in this game you just respawn and lose some xp and money.
Grandmaster B-Funk
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 9:16 PMmay i just say that i love the logo for it?