Dead Island Riptide (2013 Video Game) User Reviews

Brilliant game

[851222 · 10/10 · 28 April 2013]

Greetings from Lithuania.

I'm not going to lie - i'm a huge zombies and survival horror fan. I have been waiting for this game since i beat the original "Dead Island" year ago (in fact, i beat it twice), and that was one of the most involving games ever. "Dead Island Riptide" does not disappoints to say at least - it's soooo good, involving and bloody that i must confess - sometimes it's even better than the first "Dead Island". It's also more polished, and graphics are also a little bit improved. Quest are very fun. This game has very dark humor. RPG element in this game is probably the main engine that drives this game - it's so damn good and addictive that i can't stop playing it. I totally recommend this game to everyone, who loved the first one.

This is a good time.

[brown_sam57 · 9/10 · 29 April 2013]

Alright, lets get this settled. Many people are giving this game a bad review for the wrong reasons. The first dead island. Was it perfect? No. Was it a fun gory zombie slash game? Yes. Thats exactly what this is. If you are looking for a complex story, don't buy this game. If you want open world, zombies, awesome weapon mods, good graphics, and the odd mangled bikini clothed women, get this game. If you loved the first Dead Island, you will love Riptide.

I personally feel this game has delivered everything I am looking for in another Dead Island game. The only thing I would like to have been added, more variety of zombies.

Overall, this is a great game and with a brand new price of $49.99, thats pretty hard to hate.

Amazing, Fun, Addictive,

[djb1995 · 9/10 · 1 May 2013]

this game is brilliant i promise you that dead island and dead island riptide are 2 of the funnest games you can ever play

the new characters, zombies and features that have been added in this game will lead to weeks of fun. No joke, these games are addictive. as far as graphics go they have improved since the first dead island and are fine, realistic enough for me. reviews have been hard on this game saying the graphics are bad and its bug/glitchy, i promise you when i say this, they don't know what they are saying. graphics don't make a good game, customization, excitement, story and good features make a good game. this game is fun to play with friends or on your own. if you like ,action games or scary games or shooting games or the first dead island than i am certain you will like dead island riptide. one of the funnest games in history. 10/10

A half baked sequel to a half baked original.

[NicolasHunter500 · 29 June 2013]

After having seeing the score for this game on meta critic, I was skeptical about playing this one. I had played a little bit of the first one and it left a very sour taste in my mouth and I thought it could have been so much better, especially considering its innovative concept. This one, however, doesn't improve on the original in the slightest. It is almost as if the developer completely ignored all the criticisms aimed at the first. The combat here is dreadful, you can perform light attacks, but you can't block or even counter enemy attacks, which becomes incredibly frustrating, considering you'll face massive hordes of enemies occasionally. Killing the zombies feels very unsatisfying as well. The damage modelling is well done, you can remove limbs and heads depending on the weapon you use, but unfortunately the attack animations are appalling. The kick animation is so poorly textured it shouldn't have even been implemented. Fist fighting is useless and all of the guns are amazingly underpowered. The voice acting of the Australian characters is absolutely atrocious. I don't know, if the developers tried to make them sound as irritating, grating and moronic as possible then I guess in that respect they've succeeded, but seriously, it is utterly embarrassing and cringe worthy to listen to and during the cut scenes you'll be wanting to reach for the mute button. There is also this really stupid and unnecessary RPG element to the game. You receive "experience" for neutralizing zombies or accomplishing quests but it really didn't have to be included, in fact, this game would have worked better as a straight up survival horror game where it doesn't reward you for what you do. The island itself looks very pretty but that is the only positive thing about this game.