As far as claims go, yes, I’m being bold and melodramatic. But then, so was Techland’s original Dead Island trailer, which I think set expectations for the co-op zombie shooter to unreachable levels and ultimately came back to haunt it. This time though, the situation is different. No zombies, dead kids or shattered families. Just ATVs. And funny. And trees.
It doesn’t get any more official than an announcement from Lionsgate motion picture group president Joe Drake; there will be a Dead Island movie, and it sounds like it will be the first major motion picture based on a video game trailer.
Buggy, but fun hack-and-slash zombie role-playing game Dead Island/ shipped more than a million copies to stores in the first few days of release and expects to send out two million globally by the end of week, the publishers say. Of course, these aren’t sold to gamers numbers, but it is still pretty impressive.
Love it for its body parts, looting, insanity and amazing settings, hate it for its ludicrous bugs and iffy graphics, either way you owe it to yourself to at least check Dead Island out.
