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Fair warning: violent content ahead.

Our head honcho Nick Puleo was one of the first keen pair of eyes to catch today's announcement trailer for Dead Island, an upcoming first-person survival horror title. The trailer is as brutal as it is beautiful, taking our generation's already unhealthy obsession of zombies to a new, more sadistic plane of thought.

Polish studio Techland seems to have somehow heard our laments, as their last high-profile title was Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood - a title whose heels we nipped for lacking co-op. For this new "first-person zombie slasher" they've chosen to support four-player drop-in/drop-out co-op. Furthermore, the game will be significantly "darker" in tone than the excellent Left 4 Dead series, and will feature RPG elements to some extent.

An early gore tech trailer gave us a fleeting glimpse of what kind of nasty, real-time character damage would be presented in Dead Island, and it was impressive. Now, Techland and publisher Deep Silver have released a pre-rendered trailer that's sure to get your blood free-flowing in anticipation.

 

 

Dead Island will see players struggling to stay alive while concurrently trying to unravel the mystery of a zombie outbreak on the Royal Palms Resort island of Banoi, Papa New Guinea. The game is currently slated to release in the highly competitive fourth quarter of 2011.

 

 
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rafoca
2:59 PM
2/16/2011

One of the best gametrailers... EVER!


Biohzrd451
3:25 PM
2/16/2011

Sounds interesting .


smurphster
5:35 PM
2/16/2011

just tell me it has split screen and i'm sold.


bigDinyomouth
9:59 PM
2/16/2011

speaking of techland,co-op, and Call of Juarez. You guys know that Call of Juarez the cartel will have (I believe) 3 player co-op right? I read it when i was skimming through the new EGM at the grocery store the other day.

I just mention it because techland is on a roll and now they have 2 games I will be buying from them this year.


txshurricane
10:55 PM
2/16/2011

Jn--- Replying to bigDinyomouth -----

I specifically looked for that. Gonna grab an EGM to confirm.


samoza
4:37 AM
2/17/2011

If Call of Juarez and Dead Island are both co-op they should be solid games to look into. I've completed the first two Juarezs (Juarezi?) and they where good fun, if not spectacular.

I also have to laugh about Dead Island being significantly darker than Left 4 Dead. That series has some lighter moments - but its still a very dark game!


BigBadBob113
7:52 AM
2/17/2011

That trailer is ridiculously awesome!


aeiah
9:45 AM
2/17/2011

L4D is a rather funny game - the banter between the characters and the self aware absurdity of the whole thing is great.

id never heard of this before but it looks awesome. ive always liked the whole tropical island setting for zombies since i watched zombie flesh eaters - but you cant take the film too seriously and i hope this game wont take its self too seriously either, even if it does scare the crap out of me


Macrocephalus
9:59 AM
2/17/2011

Wow, that really is one of the best game trailers I've ever seen, and despite the fact that I'm really zombied out, it catapults onto a high spot on my list.

Still, I'd tend to suspect that the feeling offered by the trailer really won't be there in the game. Other than Heavy Rain, how often do games really shoot for loss, grief and the like? I think HR's huge success despite its unusual nature and controls probably showed that it's very under-explored territory, but this is probably going to be just another zombie basher. I'll keep my eyes peeled and hope for the best, though!

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Release Date: 09.06.2011
Genre: FPS
ESRB: Mature

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