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flashing snall
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Posted: 19th Feb 2011 16:18 Edited at: 19th Feb 2011 16:19
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So I watched this trailer a few days ago... And my heart was wrenched a little on the inside. I think this is one of the best sort of short story in a trailer things I have ever scene. There is so much in this little clip.



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Posted: 19th Feb 2011 16:23
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Saw this a few days ago too. Awesome trailer. The only problem with these things is, the game could still be utter rubbish .... or more likely, extremely average. I hope not though, because the impact of the trailer deserves a great game to do it justice.

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Meh, the backwards thing is exactly what the tomb raider trailer did not so long ago... just a little more poignant. It looks OK though.

So what if I'm heartless

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." That's a bit like saying Hey bullies! So yeah, this words thing isn't working, but I'll tell you what will
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Libervurto
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Posted: 19th Feb 2011 16:41
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What fallout said.
Facial animation is getting scarily good.


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Posted: 19th Feb 2011 17:36
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I was also blown away by this. Apparently some people think it's manipulative and cheap because it begins with a dead girl and sad music, but I think that's just it's way in. All told, it's very well crafted.

What Fallout says still stands, of course: the game could be awful. But as a three-minute short film, I think it's fantastic.

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Posted: 19th Feb 2011 18:13
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I had a quick poke about though and found out it's a 1st person, mostly melee based, open world on an island. Sounds interesting so far.

I can't believe people would suggest a film is "manipulative" because it uses components that have an emotional effect on you. Tell you what, next time someone makes a war movie, how about they just do anyway with the whole people dying thing, because that's so manipulative!

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Benjamin
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Posted: 19th Feb 2011 20:03
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Judging by the trailer there will be 0 hours of gameplay.



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Honestly, I couldn't help thinking "Oh god, not another zombie game" while watching that trailer. That said, it is an interesting trailer, even though it doesn't tell a damn thing about the game itself.

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Posted: 19th Feb 2011 21:04
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I don't think anyone has ever made a good zombie game. The Resident Evil games are pretty good, but Left 4 Dead and that other one are mindless shoot 'em ups. To me, they don't go any way to capturing the awesome atmosphere of good zombie movies. Dead Rising took a good stab at it, but there was no horror to it. It was just a sandbox.

While I agree there are a lot of zombie games, to me, they're all failures. I welcome any attempt to make a zombie game which tries to recreate the horror/apocalypse/hopelessness of good zombie films, so I'm hoping this goes some way to achieving that.

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Posted: 19th Feb 2011 21:44
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Dead rising 2..... nuff said.

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Posted: 19th Feb 2011 22:01
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Quote: "That said, it is an interesting trailer, even though it doesn't tell a damn thing about the game itself."


I agree. I think as a piece of storytelling it's incredible, but I know nothing about the game from it except for it has zombies.

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Posted: 19th Feb 2011 23:07
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Zombies in hotels.

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I was just about to jump on here and make a thread about it myself

saw it a few days ago and loved it, I too agree with fallout that most zombie games don't come anywhere close to the sense you get from a good zombie film.

I also decided to check out the steam store page for dead Island and based off the screens and description it seems pretty interesting, as said before its an FPS with a focus on melee, which is hopefully more advanced than L4D2's melee system. I'd been following this for a while, if im not mistaken development was started on this back in 2007 or 8 but i could be wrong, but then mdeia for it just sort of dropped off as the developer started to work on games like Call of Jaurez and Nail'd. So they have an alright track record but have been working on this for a while so i have high hopes but I could easily be let down, it'd be dead rising 2 all over again


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Quote: "The Resident Evil games are pretty good, but Left 4 Dead and that other one are mindless shoot 'em ups. To me, they don't go any way to capturing the awesome atmosphere of good zombie movies."

I don't know - I think it's impossible to take zombie films seriously any more, hence only films like Zombieland which capitalise on the B-Movie silliness of it are any good. This is kind of why I like Left 4 Dead - certainly it's quite generic and silly, but if they'd tried to make it serious it would have been dreadful.

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." That's a bit like saying Hey bullies! So yeah, this words thing isn't working, but I'll tell you what will
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Posted: 20th Feb 2011 02:15 Edited at: 20th Feb 2011 02:17
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Quote: "take zombie films seriously any more"

Have to agree, from all zombie movies / movies that somehow had zombie like aggressors that I've seen, they've been either plain dumb or funny, even when they're not meant to be (Dawn of the Dead (that baby scene for example), [Rec] (When they hit the old lady with the metal pipe, when the girl freaks out, etc.)) and only a couple are thrilling, although never actually scary (Resident Evil 1 and 28 Days Later for example).

And the best zombie movies are always those parodies, like Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland.

However, I really like Zombies and thus my expectations for Dead Island are high since I've first stumbled upon it, and I can't wait to see more of it - the trailer / teaser leaves me interested enough to get through another year without news, at least.

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IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!


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Posted: 20th Feb 2011 04:35
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It's just as good backwards.


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flashing snall
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Posted: 20th Feb 2011 06:41
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Do you think the man's t-shirt has any meaning? It has '15' in big letters, and then 06-july in smaller letters. I cant figure out if thats spose to be a hidden date of importance, like a release date, because it seems awful far off.

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Disturbingly sad. Although one of the best trailers I have ever seen.

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Posted: 20th Feb 2011 10:03
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it is actually pretty sad. Such is life some might say, but as a father you cant actually imgine how scary that is. Id have to say that is a big deterant for me, regardless of quality. Cant say that ive ever been a big zombie fan either; if you ask me the whole idea is overplayed and has never been interesting. Zombies have only been good as cannon fodder opponents... in movies and in video games. Gets kind of tiring to see games that only rely on the zombie shock factor to get attention.

Im going to go play a nice game of cake mania and curl up to a good sesame street number book. LOL

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Quote: "I think it's impossible to take zombie films seriously any more"

It's maby becouse I never watched Zombieland, but I still take Night, Dawn and Day of the Dead seriously. And to me, there can't be enough zombies. I love Resident Evil (as much as I played it, wich is surprisingly not all that much), I love Left 4 Dead 2, maby it's mindless, but it still is damn fun and you have to have that much brain, that you know how to do teamwork. And I even have played The Last Stand very much It's a fun little game. And altho HL games aren't really zombie games, I love their zombies. Especially going around in Ravenholm!

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Posted: 20th Feb 2011 11:10 Edited at: 20th Feb 2011 11:11
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I have to admit, I don't think zombie films are scary, but I never did. They're not horror in the terrifying sense. The horror of a zombie movie is the idea of an apocalyptic world where all your family and friends are dead, society no longer exists, and absolutely everywhere you turn or go in the entire world, death is waiting, even if any one zombie by itself isn't that dangerous. It takes a certain willingness and imagination to enjoy a good zombie movie.

For this game to meet all those criteria and work, it has to do the following:
- Develop the characters very well, so you really care about the people around you and feel their loss when they get killed.
- Fill the game with lore and story that makes you feel isolated, and without hope.
- Give you plenty of options for escape and fighting, but make it relentless, so you never feel safe.
- Give you more to worry about than just going from a to b, and killing stuff as you go. You need to worry about where to sleep safely, getting food, protecting yourself, first aid, helping people you genuinely care about (rather than just being told you care about them) etc.

It's a tall order for any game.

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Quote: "It takes a certain willingness and imagination to enjoy a good zombie movie."

That's what it takes for any movie.

Quote: "For this game to meet all those criteria and work, it has to do the following"

I couldn't agree more. I wish this wouldn't be just an average zombei game, but actually a really good zombie game

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zombie game and really good in the same sentance!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.... weew. J/K... btw...
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the trailer is extremely touching. Not many trailers manages that well.
If the final game is NOT a typical hack and slash kill many zombies to win then ill be surprised.
The trailer is amazing... very amazing..


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