It’s a refreshingly streamlined approach that contrasts with some of the more convoluted skill trees found in other modern action adventures, allowing you to choose between basic abilities like blocks and dodges and then layering on cards to further enhance them. I certainly appreciate the variety of playable leads, although a by-product of having to accommodate six separate vocal tracks in story cutscenes means the dialogue can come across as noticeably disjointed at times.īuilding on each character’s base stats, Dead Island 2’s skill card system allows you to tailor your character traits to best suit your play style. Ryan is described as an exotic dancer and is dressed like a fireman on his way to a bachelorette party, but the closest he gets to a stripper’s pole is the steel pole he uses to strip the arms and legs off his undead assailants. For my playthrough I opted for Ryan, the more tank-like member of Dead Island 2’s playable cast who regains health every time he knocks a zombie to the ground. Amy is agile and athletic, able to regain stamina with each weapon throw and gains a damage boost when attacking isolated zombies, while stuntman Jacob has more health and his attacks grow more powerful when landed in quick succession. Speaking of which, Dead Island 2 allows you to choose from six different slayers, each with their own base strengths and weaknesses. Fuses bought from vendors can be used to open locked garages, allowing you to ransack them for rare items and weaponry, while certain other areas are guarded by overpowered zombies denoted by a skull symbol that killed me with one hit – clearly they’re intended to be avoided at first encounter, before eventually overcome later on once you’ve leveled up your character to be resilient enough to withstand their attacks.
Still, each section of the city I’ve seen so far is sizable and encourages exploration and return visits.
The Los Angeles setting is not one big open world – rather 10 districts stitched together by loading screens – and despite the presence of countless abandoned vehicles, you’re forced to remain carbon neutral by roaming around entirely on foot at a speed that feels somewhat listless in the wake of Dying Light 2’s high-speed wall-runnings. After surviving a plane crash in its opening moments during an aborted attempt to escape the city, Dead Island 2 sent me on a search for fellow survivors from Bel-Air to Beverly Hills.
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