When we came to, one of the survivors, a frenzied man in a really loud tropical shirt, was standing over us with an upraised baseball bat, screaming at us to nod our head to acknowledge that we understood what was being said (presumably to prove we weren't another zombie) or he'd crack open our skull. We began our demonstration session with our character, Sam B in this case, lying on a slab inside the pool house, fading in and out of consciousness and only vaguely aware that the survivors had dragged him in while frantically fighting off another raging zombie that had somehow made its way inside.

You don't have to have an electric machete to survive Dead Island…but it helps! These characters will essentially act as four different character classes, described by publisher Deep Silver as a 'leader,' a 'tank,' a 'jack-of-all-trades,' and an 'assassin.' But every single character starts out the same way-suddenly attacked by zombies at the hotel, knocked out, and dragged to a nearby pool house converted to a shelter. This is where the game begins.ĭead Island lets you play as one of four characters, Xian Mei (a former hotel employee), Logan (a surfer), Sam B (a former hip-hop artist), and Purna (an as-yet unrevealed character).

The events that unfold in the much-talked-about trailer chronicle how the bloodthirsty undead ambush the guests, leaving only a handful of survivors in and around the resort.

By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot'sĭead Island, as the trailer suggests, takes place on a resort island where a sudden, unexpected zombie outbreak takes the island's population-mainly regular people on vacation-completely by surprise.

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