![]() ![]() As time goes on, his mind becomes more and more unhinged, as an increasing amount of hallucinations encroach into the game. The one somewhat unique thing this game has going for it is the growing insanity of the player character. In Escape Dead Island, I couldn’t help but feel like it existed to pad more gameplay time on. With a game like Symphony of the Night, backtracking doesn’t feel so much like a chore because the gameplay is centered and focused to the point where it seems like natural progression. Near the end of the game, you’ll have plenty of weapons and will be going Rambo on some zombies, but the controls are so mushy that it’s not very satisfying and makes the previous stealth gameplay seem even more cliche and needless. Your character will just comment on specific items you take pictures of, and they’re not particularly inspired comments either. The photography elements are worthless as well, as there are no point or upgrade systems. The only vaguely interesting part of the plot is related to the increasingly tenuous grasp on sanity the main character has, but we’ll get into that a bit later. However, this game lacks the creative writing of Scooby-Doo and the plot only serves to loosely tie the haphazard gameplay together. He decides the best way to get his father to love him is to go to Banoi with his two friends/employees and solve the mystery. ![]() The real treat comes when you meet Escape Dead Island’s star: the rich kid with daddy issues that is equal parts Frank West, Jason Brody, and Colonel John Konrad. ![]() After infiltrating a top secret lab (the only kind of labs video games know about) the two discover that YouTube commenters are right and a big corporation is in fact part of some Illuminati clone, yadda, yadda, yadda. Xian Mei of the original Dead Island plays Halo‘s Cortana to your generic Commando. The game kicks off with a small prequel scene cataloging the events just prior to the beginning of the first game. ![]()
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