Dead Island
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| Studio |
 Techland
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| Publisher |
 Deep Silver
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| composer | Pawel Blaszczak | ||
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
All platforms September 6, 2011 September 8, 2011  |
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| platform | Windows , Linux , Xbox 360 , PlayStation 3 , PlayStation 4 , Xbox One | ||
| genre | First person shooter , action adventure | ||
| Game mode | Single player , multiplayer ( co-op mode online or via LAN ) | ||
| control | Keyboard , mouse , gamepad | ||
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| medium | DVD-DL , Blu-ray , download | ||
| language | English , French , Italian , Spanish , Polish , German (subtitles, texts) | ||
| Current version | 1.4.1 | ||
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| information | Indexed until January 2019 ( List A ) | ||
Dead Island is an action adventure horror first person shooter developed by Techland . The international version was published on September 6, 2011 via Deep Silver . In Germany it was initially not published due to the then threatened and later indexing. In January 2019, however, the definitive edition of the game was removed from the index and was released in Germany on April 9, 2019.
As of February 2013, over five million copies of the game had been sold.
action
The player whose character is at the beginning of the game from a choice of four possible candidates (all with different biographies and skills) selected is on the fictional resort island Banoi in Papua New Guinea at a party as a zombie - epidemic breaks out. The game begins the next morning in your own hotel room, where the character finally wakes up and finds an abandoned, devastated hotel. Now he has to fight his way through hordes of former vacationers turned into zombies and former employees on the island. The four main characters turn out to be immune to the zombie virus. Often the player meets other survivors who give the player a variety of tasks, such as finding missing relatives, medicines or food.
Right from the start, the player is contacted via radio by a stranger who gives him helpful hints. After helping several groups of people on the hotel beach, the player sets off for the nearby town. From there, under the guidance of the unknown, the boat continues into the jungle, where a research laboratory is located. There is supposedly research on an antivirus. It turns out that the stranger on the radio is called Ryder White and is sitting on a prison island off the coast. His wife is sick with the zombie virus. With the help of the indigenous people of Banois, a serum against the virus can be produced, but the laboratory is overrun by zombies. The player finally arrives by boat to the prison island, which is also partially populated by zombies. White steals the serum from the player and wants to escape by helicopter in order to have the island and with it the plague afterwards cremated by the military by dropping an atomic bomb. When the player finally confronts White at the last second, he injects himself with the serum and mutates into a zombie creature. He is killed by the player and the group escapes in White's helicopter. The island remains under military quarantine.
content
The action is in the context of the tropical vacation island, on which numerous undead guests and other opponents are. The player can use many objects on the island as weapons (e.g. paddles, crowbars, baseball bats, wooden planks, pipes and pipe wrenches, knives, machetes and much more). These can also be thrown.
Dead Island has many RPG elements, for example you can repair or improve your weapons or assemble new weapons from various objects (e.g. a machete with a stun gun, a burning baton) or make bombs. The completion of tasks (so-called quests ), which are set by different survivors, is rewarded both with experience points and partly with new building instructions or weapons. There are main quests and side quests. Killing zombies also brings experience points. There is a level system which includes 60 levels - after each level up the player can improve his skills (such as weapon strength or special combat movements).
There are also cars in the game that can be driven by the player and have a loading area on which objects (such as gas bottles or petrol cans) can be transported.
The game world of Dead Island works on the open world principle, i. H. you can go or drive to many places right from the start. However, some places (such as bunkers) can only be entered due to the mission. Additional areas will be unlocked as the game progresses. These areas represent the chapters ("Acts") of Dead Island. Act I takes place in the "Resort" (a hotel and bungalow complex, which is idyllically located on the beach). Act II takes place in the nearby slums of the city. Act III takes place in the jungle and IV on a prison island.
Multiplayer
Dead Island has a co-op mode, which can be used online (depending on the platform via Steam , Xbox Live or PlayStation Network ) or via LAN with up to 4 players. The special thing about this is that players can get in and out of another player's co-op mode at any time. The player can start a co-op game alone and also start and end missions alone if a suitable player is nearby in the game world, but can join the game at any time.
If a mission is successfully completed in co-op mode, all players receive the same reward, which everyone must collect separately from the (NPC) client. This prevents a player from taking all the good rewards and leaving others involved empty-handed.
technology
The game runs with the Chrome Engine 5, through which, among other things, the detailed injuries of the zombies (e.g. broken legs, beheadings etc.) are possible.
development
The game was developed by Techland and published by Deep Silver. It was actually supposed to appear on the market in 2008, but the date has been postponed to September 6, 2011 (USA) due to various development hurdles.
Sales versions
The pre-order edition of the game includes the “Ripper” DLC, the “Bloodbath Arena” DLC and the Brainwave Bomb. However, this content can also be purchased later for an additional charge.
The Austrian online shop GamesOnly exclusively sold a special edition of the game limited to 5,000 pieces, the so-called Red Edition , which, in addition to the game DVD and the pre-order DLCs, also included a steel case, a bloodbath bag and a bloodbath towel.
continuation
Techland first announced plans for a sequel called Dead World in November 2011 . But these speculations were denied in 2012 at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). Techland and Deep Silver had now officially confirmed that the successor will be called Dead Island: Riptide (English for "raging current"). On September 18, 2012, Deep Silver and Techland published the first official trailer for Dead Island Riptide on the successor's official website and on YouTube , after a teaser and some in-game screenshots had already been published there in August 2012.
At E3 2014 in June 2014, publisher Deep Silver announced the sequel Dead Island 2 , which was being worked on at the German developer studio Yager Development , but in July 2015 publisher Deep Silver withdrew responsibility from the development studio . The reason given were differences in the performances of the game. The open-world game is based on Unreal Engine 4 and was originally due to be released in early 2016 for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 .
Novel about the game
- Dead Island: The Official Novel by Mark Morris , Panini Verlag , 2012, ISBN 978-3-8332-2448-5 .
filming
On September 27, 2011 it was announced that Lions Gate Entertainment had secured the film rights to Dead Island . The film is supposed to be based on the game, but the plot is supposed to be about the family from the game's trailer released in February. The producer is Sean Daniel .
Web links
- Dead Island at MobyGames (English)
- schnittberichte.com: Indexing January 2012
- Indexing decision of November 17, 2011 (list part B) (PDF; 192 kB)
- Indexing decision of January 11, 2012 (list part A) (PDF; 200 kB)
- Dead Island system requirements
- GamesOnly.at: Dead Island Red Edition
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.schnittberichte.com/news.php?ID=3346 schnittberichte.com, February 24, 2012.
- ↑ Fabiano Uslenghi: Dead Island disappears from the index. In: www.gamestar.de. January 28, 2019, accessed January 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Patrick Jackson: Dead Island Series for download. In: www.game-dna.de. April 9, 2019, accessed April 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Rachel Weber: Dead Island sells 5 million. In: www.gamesindustry.biz. February 5, 2013, accessed February 5, 2013 .
- ↑ http://www.computerbild.de/artikel/cbs-News-PC-PS3-Xbox-360-Dead-World-Dead-Island-Nach Nahrungsmittel- 6746027.html , computerbild.de, January 11, 2012.
- ↑ http://deadisland.deepsilver.com/ Official website for Dead Island Riptide , September 18, 2012 (accessed October 5, 2012)
- ↑ Marcel Kleffmann: Dead Island 2 - developer studio replaced: Yager no longer involved. In: 4Players . 4Players , July 16, 2015, accessed November 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Dead Island 2 - sequel to Yager announced on GameStar , accessed June 10, 2014.
- ↑ http://www.gamona.de/kino-dvd/dead-island,film-zum-spiel-angekuendigt-soll-innovation-des-genr:news,1992369.html , gamona.de, January 11, 2012.