Something that has also been talked about a lot is the fact that in Dead Island 2 you can really smash your opponents to pieces.

This is a potentially very interesting system that I have high hopes for. Even though this preview version (which was a few hours long) didn't give me a lot of stuff to try, I was able to equip myself with cards that make the enemy take damage when I use health packs and another one that leads to successful combos making me more durable.

Basically, it works like a level tree where you continuously replace cards so that you always have the perks you want. There is also a card system that the developers are really proud of. I look forward to exploring more of this in the finished adventure. The latter can provide things like more damage, or electrocuting your victims but also other advantages. As long as you have enough raw materials, you can both fix your tools so that your heavy iron pipe might be enough to kill another handful of zombies before it breaks again - and upgrade them. First of all, we have the repair system, which also includes improvements. The battles lack a little weight but are the highlights of Dead Island 2.įortunately, Dead Island 2 has other things going for it.

It slows down the pace, and this is amplified when I'm not able to pick up the piece of cloth that is right in front of me because I'm not standing in exactly the right place. Nor am I keen on having to collect tons of raw materials to have enough to fix the pool cue I use to kill enemies. The setup simply feels a bit too old-fashioned, the events in the story need to offer a more dynamic and surprising setup than just plodding along with what is basically exactly the same model as the first Resident Evil established in the 90s.īesides, running around with a massive crowbar that needs repairing on a workbench after I hit two spongy zombies in the head feels a bit silly. And already in the preview version I played, I had a little too many doors that lacked batteries (who ran around and ripped out all the batteries during the apocalypse?) of which I had to find to progress. Some examples of what I mean are that you often get missions that simply involve clearing an area of advancing zombies before any new event can be triggered.

E3 2019 no dead island 2?