Today, I finally finished the game, “Dead Island”. It was a pretty long ass game too. A lot of missions and side quests you have to go through.

The game is taken place in a fictional island named, Banoi, which is off the coast of Papua New Guinea. You play 4 different characters in the game: Xian Mei, Sam B., Logan, and Purna. You can play up to 1 – 4 players, in the game. The character I picked was Purna, the black woman who specializes in guns. I played by myself in the game, because I have no one else to play the game with. You start off in the Palms Resort Hotel, the night after the hotel party and then the island have been taken over by zombies. The Island of Banoi is meant to be a hot vacation spot for tourists, but it is not so hot anymore when there are zombies around.

This is not just a first person shooter, it’s also a role playing game. You don’t have to go through all the side quests but the main quests are the main part of the game, you must go through. A lot of people complain that this game doesn’t have much weapons and guns to choose from. I think the reason for that is, because when you’re in a zombie apocalypse, they want to make it seem realistic & believable. After a zombie apocalypse, there’s nothing much left anymore. Everything is pretty much all gone, and that includes things to survive with. You must go around and find that stuff yourself. So it makes a lot of sense to not have a lot of weapons in this game. They want to make sure if you can fight zombies and survive with very little items. It’s part of gaming and they want you to have skill.

There is plenty of gore throughout the game and it can get pretty nasty at times. Plus, the game can get pretty scary and creepy as well. This has gotten mixed reviews. It’s another one of those love or hate things, but despite all the negative reviews on this game, I thought this game was absolutely amazing. The game was very addicting. I couldn’t stop playing it. A lot of people said the game play had problems and said it was boring, but really? I had an absolute blast fighting zombies. The game can be a bitch, and frustrating. You like playing those games where you can get mad at and throw your controller to the floor so many times? Well this game will do that to you.

There were a few slight problems, however, I didn’t like how they did the mapping. They need to improve the mapping more ’cause it was confusing. Plus, the game was kind of laggy and glitchy at some spots. Other than that, this was a great game. It had a good story, the characters were very well voiced.

I think this is one of the best games of 2011, of course, that opinion could change when I start, “Batman: Arkham City” next which I will start tonight. I also still need to get “Battle Field 3” and “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3” sometime in the future as well. There’s a lot of new games for the PS3 I want to get. It’s hard to catch up with them all. Games are pretty pricey, so I play one at a time.

Kev