Hours into my play time as Carla I also unlocked the dodge for her, but I couldn’t equip both, and with both offering different ways to play as well as different buffs for using them, it offered a genuine choice about how you want to spec your slayer.Įven the moves you unlock offer similar choices.
Amy doesn’t have the parry block, and instead has a dodge on the same button.
These character-based skills are varied to each different play style.
Perhaps as Carla you want to make it so successful blocks give you a health boost, that’s an option. As you level up, you gain more space for cards, and you can build a character to play how you want to. There are different slots for these skill cards, and one of them I never even got to see what it was all about. Each slayer uses a card-based system, and you gather new cards as you play. Despite being a canned animation for each of the weapons, it never gets old, and makes the parry worth learning.īut of course, that’s only an option when you start if you pick Carla. Doing so unlocks a brief window to hit “X” and then you can smash the zombie up with whichever weapon you’re using. While you can block, you can also parry attacks. But there’s an art to the combat that adds some depth, and eventually adds options. Whether you’ve modded a knife to inflict electricity, or have a mace that does fire damage, it feels right. The weight to each of the variety of weapons on offer feels good. Melee weapons instantly just feel right, too. A brief (but unskippable, even if you’re playing through with a different slayer, sadly) tutorial section introduces the combat, main characters, and then you’re off to the races. The zombie outbreak is destroying LA (Hell-A, which is a joke that never lands for me), and the cast of slayers has snuck onto the plane, which itself has infected humans on it crashes, and we’re back to trying to survive. The story starts with a plane trying to leave for safety. This is boots on the ground zombie-smashing, with a massive amount of weapons, and some of the most (and I hate to use this term here but) “life like” dismemberment I’ve ever seen in a game. There’s less a focus on parkour and verticality that other games might be chasing. Catharsis in a game: chopping and beating zombies to a pulp, it’s just a damn good time. In my extensive time (I played five hours of the game, but with multiple characters, so genuinely this is the most time I’ve ever spent with a preview build that I can recall) playing it, all I could think was how enjoyable it was mechanically. But Dead Island 2, in many ways, takes things back to the roots.
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This is the series that started it all in many ways, with a studio that splintered off and made Dying Light, itself becoming a huge franchise. OK, so boring stuff out of the way, now you know it works, what is it? I don’t think it’s being disrespectful to say that Dead Island 2 isn’t looking to reinvent the wheel. In fact, I’d say Dead Island 2 is a huge credit to Dambuster Studios, because despite multiple developers taking a stab at this one, it being years in the making, and being a little way off yet, the Xbox Series X version I played was pretty much bug free, ran well, looks great, and feels like something that love and energy has been poured into. I want to get that out of the way right here and now, because with a game that has been this long coming, it’s almost a surprise that it works at all, let alone the fact that after five hours of playing, I kinda wanted to… just keep playing.
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