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Dead Island offers flashes of fun in unfinished, buggy PC release

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Dead Island is a first-person action-RPG that places you on a beautiful island and then surrounds you with zombies. The story can feel threadbare, and the characters are often little more than cartoons, but the struggle to stay alive gives you more than enough reason to keep playing. As Robert Kirkman loves to point out in the Walking Dead comic series, the real dangers after a zombie infestation aren’t the undead, but the survivors that also surround you. When society breaks down, it’s the people that become truly monstrous.

You play one of four characters who is immune to the infection, which is a clever way of explaining why you’re the one leaving safety to help with every major and minor mission. The game has moments of brilliance and is often fun, but it’s also clearly not finished—and nearly broken on the PC. I can’t wait to revisit things when the technical issues are sorted out.

How bad are things at launch? This is the first game I can remember playing where a developer’s no-clip mode was mapped to “Y” as a default in the final code.

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