Dead Island: Slice and Dice in Paradise

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The most immediately striking thing about Dead Island is its tropical setting. Developer Techland may have recently shot itself in the foot by taking its established wild western Call of Juarez series and setting it in a present day urban backdrop with The Cartel, but its decision to set a zombie game on a beautiful resort island in the Pacific Ocean was undeniably a smart one. Survival horror typically relies on shadowy corridors to ramp up feelings of dread and claustrophobia, but Dead Island sets the action in lush, open, sun-kissed vistas – palette-swapping sparkling blues and greens in place of dull blacks and greys. The idyllic beauty that surrounds you serves to make the violent encounters with each bloody-minded zombie all the more jarring and unsettling.