Dead Island 2

It's been nine years since Dead Island 2 was announced, and the zombie bash-'em-up has finally been dragged out of development hell. Is it worth your time... or dead on arrival?

- Alan Wen

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Los Angeles is many things, but one thing it most definitely isn't is an island. That might make it seem a curious choice for the setting of Dead Island 2, but the sands of Venice Beach certainly suit the theme of a zombie-ravaged paradise.

Rather than letting you loose to find a way to escape the city, LA's fairly large and detailed districts follow a linear pattern of way-points barred by missing circuit breakers or locked doors; but traversing them on foot isn't as engaging as the parkour in, for example, Dying Light.

You'd be cross too if you'd had your head dipped in boiling poo.