While you might be able to turn a strimmer into a far-reaching whirlwind of slicing and dicing, it comes at the price of making noise and attracting nearby zombies. While things like the electrified swords will return, there are tons of new weapons, from crossbows to a new class of weaponry that comes by way of your everyday household tools for gardening and DIY. ![]() There are four new characters – Hunter, Berserker, Bishop and Speeder, this time around – and it’s still all about the first person combat, with a focus on hand-to-hand weaponry. Yet, it’s really all about the gameplay, and this looks to be a pretty logical extension of what went before. Certainly, some of the brief snapshots of where they are aiming were glorious, and I hope they can back them up later this year, but for now, the only Dead Island 2 image out there is the cover art… However, the shift from Chrome Engine to Unreal Engine 4 will help the game’s graphical credentials. The build shown behind closed doors at E3 was still rather early, and actually a snapshot from months before the show, as Gamescom is set to be their next public outing and a development milestone. ![]() However, it’s not quite hit everywhere just yet and, for want of any better solution, the containment efforts continue with swathes of California having been locked off, and providing Dead Island 2 with its beautiful, sunbaked setting. The attempts to control and contain the outbreak on Banoi have failed, and the virus spread across the globe in the months that have passed since then – a story set to be told in the freshly announced Escape Dead Island. ![]() Though Dead Island drops the island setting, it still holds on to the idea of “Paradise meets Hell”.
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