New gameplay video for Dead Island: Riptide shows there’s more to game than controversial statues

Spent countless hours in Dead Island and definitely will be getting this too. But it really doesn’t look like they’re putting a whole lot of (or any) effort in to improving the gameplay. Saying they are sticking with mechanics that the dead island fans enjoyed just sounds like an excuse not to update a lot of it IMO.

It looks like the exact same game just with different objectives and locations which should be a given in any sequel. Looked like the same annoying lock-on mechanics, the same jumbled throwing weapon inventory placement, the same hastles of throwing weapons and having to keep track of the exact positions they land at. Probably still won’t be enough zombies to warrant playing multiplayer, leaving players fighting each other for the kills rather than fighting the zombies to survive.

They’ll probably even still leave in the ‘stomp fighting’ mechanic where multiple players can interrupt each others stomp as they greedily try to get it in themselves. The vehicles will probably have the same intense mouse smoothing and keep you struggling to keep your view from returning to the center.

This video done absolutely nothing to really get me excited let alone enough to pre-order, it looked like the same old stuff. I wanto see what’s new about the gameplay mechanics and what’s been fixed up since the original if anything.

I’d say anybody who didn’t enjoy the original would not want to get thier hopes up that this will be any more to thier tastes.