Most importantly, it’s not another checklist death march. It’s a relic that is rough around the edges, but its linearity feels refreshing, and the gore-heavy combat offers constant, visceral spectacle. The final result of this fraught process, delivered by Nottingham’s Dambuster Studios, can sometimes feel like an old friend.ĭead Island 2’s acerbic tone and dated systems summon a strange nostalgia for the silly, straightforward, but moreish first-person action games that dominated the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 era. In the meantime, Dead Island’s original developer, Techland, has moved on to bigger and better things with its Dying Light series. Over the course of a decade, its development has fallen to a trio of different studios, each attempting to shepherd a sequel to a moreish co-op zombie brawler from 2011. Her other stats are all average but her skills, which involve getting a Stamina Boost for throwing weapons and attacking lone zombies, aren't particularly useful.Dead Island 2 is a game lost in time. The fastest moving, but least tough character with low peak health. He does the highest Critical Damage though if you think you can maximise that. Low Health and Toughness aren't great, while skills like Backstab - which boosts damage from behind - isn't much use. Health recovery isn't great, countered by a slight health regen when killing multiple zombies quickly, and she can trigger explosions with heavy attacks but it's a limiting way to play. Has the lowest resistance to elemental attacks.īasically a tank with high Stamina and Resilience to soak up basic and elemental damage, with skills that focus on knocking zombies down and getting health for doing it.
His Feral skill is useful, giving a damage boost when attacking quickly in succession. Most of her other stats are average, bar lower movement speed and the lowest Critical Damage.
High Resilience and Toughness mean Carla can soak up basic and elemental damage, while her Mosh Pit skill gives her a useful damage boost when surrounded.
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