Lame lame LAME!!! I can't believe that they would make a single player only DLC...especially for a game that should only be played in co-op!!!

They really shouldn't be designing singleplayer content around a co-op centric game. This was a poor choice from the designers and appears to be priced even more inappropriately for what the content is.

I am disappoint.

"Was the story strong enough for you to justify a single player adventure?" put it this way, I played through the whole game very recently with my girlfriend, and I don't really know who this Ryder White guy is.

This is a bizarre choice. Maybe they didn't have enough resources? I know call of juarez was so awful because they pooled all the resources into this game - maybe they've moved everyone around again.

It's very disappointing though - Dead Island was the most immersive coop fun we've had in ages but it looks like both copies will be finding themselves on ebay soon

I was really drunk during that part of the game, so I can't remember who he is. But this sounds pretty lame.

the story was definitly not good enough if nobody hear who beat the game know who he is, as he is a central plot character for the WHOLE thing. lack of co-op is a lack of purchase for me though.

Haven't finished the game, skipped a large portion of the article and comments. But I agree, a single-player focused DLC for a co-op centric game? Terrible. Can we take a tip from the many sites doing a blackout and just not talk about this anymore?

Seriously the game is way too long to play it by myself. Why would I want to do that?

As plenty of people here know, I'm the last person to object to single-player game design… when it's appropriate. This, though, just doesn't make a lick of sense. Dead Island is a co-op experience from top to bottom. I played the beginning of the game by myself to catch up to some friends and then I briefly rode solo a couple other times just to mop up a few missing bits of the game, and it just wasn't nearly as much fun as playing co-op.

In fact, I'm willing to bet that a lot of the bad reviews — and the startling number of times the game has showed up on worst-of-the-year and biggest-disappointments-of-2011 lists — were heavily influenced by reviewers playing the game by themselves instead of with friends. I imagine it's difficult for reviews to arrange to play through a game with other people given their tight schedules and the fact that they're often playing before a game has even been released, but it just doesn't make much sense to judge a co-op game by the experience of playing it alone.

So color me baffled by this decision. The developers seem to be playing to their game's weakness and asking for more harsh press coverage. If anything, I'd think a better choice would've been to design DLC that can't be played alone. That would've ensured that gamers and reviewers alike would've all gotten to experience the game at its best.

Who in their right mind made this decision? This is a game all about co-op, and now a single-player only expansion? Makes no sense at all.

Single player?! About a character I have nothing invested in or care about?! Great choice guys...

im sure their sales numbers will show what a stupid move this was.

Wow, that sounds ridiculous. I havent played this game, but I know that I would not have bought Raam's Shadow for Gears of War 3, if it had been single player only.

Some single player games are getting co-op DLC these days, but this is the exact opposite.

I'm so pissed about this game. My friends and I wasted our money on a Steam 4-pack at my urging. But the net code was never ready and always resulted in people dropping out continuously. We'd give up after 30 minutes. We'd give it another shot after each patch and while there was improvement, they never made it reliable. After about 4-6 patches in we just gave up on game entirely. I've never felt so ripped off. (also co-optimus, why was this problem never identified in your reviews?)

Now they go and make a single-player DLC. WTF is wrong with the developer's head?

I love Dead Island played it religiously when it first came out and had several regular meetups with it. This move to make a singleplayer only DLC is just weird, I mean why not just have some generic soldiers who tag along with white.... doesnt make any sense.