Dead Island: Definitive Collection

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7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 127 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 24 out of 127
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  1. PublicNuisance
    Jul 18, 2019
    8
    I really enjoyed the original version of Dead Island so when a Linux version of the Definitive Editions was made and went on a deep discount I couldn’t pass it up. Overall I would say that there wasn’t much difference from the normal version. The graphics are a bit better but it’s not like the graphics of the old version were bad. The gameplay is pretty much the same. I played through soloI really enjoyed the original version of Dead Island so when a Linux version of the Definitive Editions was made and went on a deep discount I couldn’t pass it up. Overall I would say that there wasn’t much difference from the normal version. The graphics are a bit better but it’s not like the graphics of the old version were bad. The gameplay is pretty much the same. I played through solo and had a blast. I never felt like there was a point where the game needed you to have a group of human players to progress. Everything felt doable solo which is something some co-op themed games will fail in.

    You get to pick from 4 characters to play as. Their backstories don’t really matter because they don’t get much explanation in game. What will matter is what kind of playstyle you prefer. Each character has a different speciality for weapons whether it be blunt weapons, edged weapons, guns, and throwable weapons. You will gain XP for completing quests and killing zombies. You can then use those points to upgrade various skills. It really does a good job of allowing you to tailor the upgrades to how you want to play. There is also a fury mode which when enabled will send you into a frenzy where you can do much more damage then normally which is very useful on hordes or mini boss type enemies. I picked Xian whose speciality was edged weapons. It is very satisfying to hack off zombie legs, arms and heads. When using blunt weapons you can also crush their skulls and bones.

    There were a few negatives along the way. I pretty much had to turn enhanced navigation on. With it on it literally gives you a line to follow to your next objective on your map. I don’t like this type of handholding but with it turned off the objective marker on the map would often dissappear for me. I would rather have my hand held then have no idea where to go next. There were also a few points in the game where enemies could shoot me through walls. I could also shoot them but would have no idea they were there until they began shooting because I can’t see though walls. There was also a glitch in the jungle level for a bit. Basically for the first bit in the jungle there were no fast travel options to that area and some side missions would send me back to other areas. I could then not be able to travel back to the jungle once complete. I had to quit the game and reload it and would be auto inserted back in the jungle with my progress intact. This issue went away about halfway through the jungle section. There was also a flickering issue. It would happen maybe once every few hours for about 2-3 seconds and then go away so it wasn’t a major hassle but it is still a bug.

    I played Dead Island Definitive Edition on Linux. It may not show it on Steam but I purchased this game back in 2016. I am just getting around to playing it now due to an issue where the game would crash before loading the main menu. At first I just put the game on the back burner expecting the glitch to be ironed out. I kept reinstalling the game to see if it was fixed but several years later, updates to game, kernel, Mesa drivers, and trying several different distros and the game still had this issue. I finally put time into solving it. What was the cause was a file called “LibGL.so”. The game was made to only work with a specific version of that file. As you can imagine over the years updated versions of have been made. The game will crash with anything newer than that version and no distro I tried uses one that old. The file is also not included with the game, it uses whichever version your OS has installed. I had to download a copy of the correct version file and drop it into the game folder. Once I did this the game launched just fine. The performance was great as well. I ran the game maxed out at 1080P and my FPS was usually 80-100 or higher. It supported framerates above 60 which was fantastic. There was no manual saving but the game auto saves after every completed task so it isn’t terrible although I would prefer manual save. There was support for Vsync, one AA setting, one ambient occlusion setting, as well as 7 other settings to tweak. Alt-Tab worked just fine. The game did crash once but just the one time and no more. Not bad for how much time I put into it. My CPU usage during gameplay was usually around 30%, my system RAM usage was usually around 5GB and my VRAM usage was usually around 2.2GB. The game took up 9.22 GB of storage and uses Techland’s own engine called Chrome Engine 5. I played version 1.1.2 of the game.

    I paid $3.30 CAD for Dead Island Definitive Edition. I can say that for how much fun it was it is easily worth $50 CAD. It has some bugs and issues but none overshadow the fun I had. I finished a solo playthrough in 26.5 hours.

    My system:

    AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | MSI RX 580 8GB Gaming X | Mesa 19.1.2 | Samsung 850 Evo 250GB | Manjaro 18.0.4 | Mate 1.22.1 | Kernel 5.2.1-1-MANJARO    … Expand
  2. VG_Alex
    Feb 2, 2020
    8
    The first person game with action elements, the gameplay and background of the game are very interesting, the customized weapon system is one of the core of the game, which enriches the fun, the defects are obvious, the details and plot narrative need to be improved.

    8.0 Good
  3. Smock
    May 31, 2016
    9
    Bigger, better, faster, kill them all.

    - Better graphics ; lot of improvement
    - New power fist
    - All DLC included
    - Better load screen too
    - A good optimisation
    - A good price if you have the original Dead Islannd

    Cons :

    - No FOV slider
    - No FPS limit
  4. DefinitiveHero
    Jan 28, 2022
    10
    Very solid open world zombie game, that is for some reason extremely underrated. It’s not better than Days Gone, but it’s way better and more fun game than Dying Light. It comes down to two factors - horror and atmosphere. Dead Island has amazing tropical island atmosphere, while Dying Light takes places in boring looking city. Also, Dead Island has actual nice horror vibe to it, whileVery solid open world zombie game, that is for some reason extremely underrated. It’s not better than Days Gone, but it’s way better and more fun game than Dying Light. It comes down to two factors - horror and atmosphere. Dead Island has amazing tropical island atmosphere, while Dying Light takes places in boring looking city. Also, Dead Island has actual nice horror vibe to it, while Dying Light is not scary at all. None of them are extremely scary, but Dead Island at least tried to be and in some cases, it does it well. I have a feeling people often forget that this game came out in 2011, before all the other major open world zombie games. This was one of the first real ones and for that alone deserves a lot of respect. Dying Light 2 seems to be way better than Dying Light 1 and seems to have even some horror back, but Dead Island will always be better zombie games than Dying Light 1.… Expand
  5. Mehrab4K
    Jun 1, 2020
    10
    Dead island and Dying light Is a best game i ever seen and i recommend play this game with controller
  6. TheRadiosongs
    Jan 28, 2022
    10
    This is perfect zombie game, beautiful location, good sound effects, very good graphics for a 2011 game, beautiful women in bikinis and tons of zombies!
  7. Finnstone
    May 31, 2016
    10
    hack hack hack, lvl up, slash, slash, slash, lvl up, loot loot loot, lvl up, quest quest quest, lvl up, skill points skill points skill points ... best zombie game out there. 10/10
  8. Iowntheworld
    Feb 15, 2022
    10
    Dead Island is far from perfect, but in 2011 it was at least somewhat original concept, after all open-world zombie games weren't really a thing back then. Overall it's literally only decent game that Techland has managed to make. Dying Light 1 had extremely boring environment and meh story and Dying Light 2 is just an absolute joke.
  9. Nick7000
    Mar 7, 2023
    9
    Прекрасный тайтл. Увлекательный, захватывающий, залипательный. Если какие-нибудь минусы у него и есть, искать их я решительно отказываюсь.

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Metascore
70

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. CD-Action
    Aug 21, 2016
    70
    Everything that was good in the original Dead Island and Riptide (like the combat system and the co-op) is still good in the new versions remastered with the Dying Light engine. Unfortunately everything that was bad (like the writing and repetitiveness) is still bad. [08/2016, p.59]
  2. Games.cz
    Jul 18, 2016
    60
    Fairly common remaster of a quite unusual first-person zombie fighter game, which includes all the patches, DLCs and add-ons, including Dead Island: Riptide. Small bonus is a classic arcade fighter game; however typical fans of 3D action games probably won't be pleased.
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  3. GameOver.gr
    Jul 7, 2016
    70
    A quite decent package that contains the two Dead Island games with updated graphics and lots of extras. It’s not something really new, but if you’ve missed them on their initial release now is the time to try them out.
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