Many gamers have been raving about the return of Dead Island after its three year hiatus.  They came out with a brilliant cinematic trailer that makes you feel like you’re part of the action, alongside that it also made you feel like you’re watching a movie or a short film.  If this game is lucky, it’ll live up to the hype and gamers will be able to be sucked into this zombie island and lose themselves.

Dead Island is supposedly a first person “zombie-slasher/action-RPG” related somewhat to your typical zombie films.  There will be a single player campaign and up to four friends will be able to join the game and drop in/drop out on the cooperative online mode.  It is being developed by Techland and published by Deep Silver.

Techland (the developers of Call of Juarez) sets the video game at the Royal Palms resort on Banoi Island which is located in Papua New Guinea with characters named Xian Mei (a staff member at the hotel), Logan, Sam, and Purna.  No, there isn’t a real Banoi Island but they certainly do their job to make you believe that there is one.  Banoi Island brings thousands of tourists worldwide and so you are lead to assume that the population would be high.  You and your character check into this Chinese hotel chain and then things start to get weird, starting with guests attacking other guests, infecting them with this disease that begins to spread rapidly.  Think Dawn of the Dead.  The objective of the game is the attempt to escape Banoi Island unscathed and uninfected.

As for the fighting, it’s going to be based mostly on melee weapons so it’s going to be your job to try to fend for your life by using every day items that you can find scoured around Banoi Island.  You will be able to use such weapons as a pipe, paddle, or a broomstick, everything is available to your usage.  Though Dead Island is based mostly on melee, you will be able to gain access to firearms but ammunition is extremely hard to find so it seems to make more sense to pick up that pipe when you see one.  One thing that I find pretty realistic is that your melee weapons can degrade/break with excessive use and if you favour a certain melee weapon, you will have the option to repair it at a workbench (there will be certain workbench locations).

Now that we’ve discussed the shooter options, let’s dabble in the RPG elements.  There will be a levelling system and a skill tree that will assist you in becoming stronger over the course of the game.  As you level up, you will gain access to new tactics, new character animations, and of course boosts in stats.

Dead Island will be multi platform and will be available on the PS3, XBox 360, and the PC later this year.

Although the following trailer really took a toll on my emotional heart strings, the concept was brilliant, though relatively depressing.  Usually, I'd say "enjoy" but I don't really know how enjoyable you will find it.

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Hey guys, it's LindsayBrohan blogging for Bretto!

As you all know, two separate groups of selected individuals were invited to have tours of Zipper's headquarters in Washington.  One of the days was a media day and the other day was a community day, the difference between the two was that on the media day they were allowed to take videos while playing and during the community day, they weren't.

So this is where the following video comes into play.  During the media day, someone took footage of the online multiplayer for Socom 4 and therefore it was leaked via YouTube and Bretto had to let you guys know as soon as he did.

Take a look at it and let us know what you think!

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Resistance 3

InsomniacGames is coming out with their third installment of the Resistance trilogy (due to be released September 6th, 2011), Resistance 3.  I myself have purchased the first and second Resistance and have played both but the thing in my mind that raises the most questions is, was it really necessary to create ANOTHER Resistance?  Apparently InsomniacGames believes so.

The Resistance trilogy is a Playstation 3 exclusive game, unavailable to any other platform so all of you PS3 users, listen carefully.

Resistance 3 is going to pick up around 4 yeas after the end of Resistance 2.  Sentinel Joseph Capelli (the main character) had finally given up on fighting the Chimeran menace.  For those of you who have yet to play any of the Resistance games, the Chimera are an alien species that inevitably worked together to take over the world.  They were made out of humans and brought together to fight man kind as a whole.  Joseph has had a complete role reversal and he is now hiding out with his family, trying to survive the invasion and soon to be extermination.  He is then offered a proposition.

Fyodor Malikov comes to Sentinel Joseph Capelli and presents him with an offer, he has an opportunity to deliver a huge and devastating blow to the Chimeran population and so Joseph must leave his family and embark on this mission with Fyodor Malikov.

Within the game  you will experience new upgradeable weapons, two player online or split-screen campaign co-op, the return of the weapon wheel (which was an amazing feature).  

The one thing that I always enjoyed about the Resistance trilogy is that it combines both elements of a first person shooter and a RPG, delivering just enough kick to satisfy your shooter needs and just enough storyline to satisfy your needs to be drawn into a world of alien invasion, terror, and fantasy.

Check out this live action trailer for the soon to be released game!

Enjoy!

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

I know, I know.  It's a frustrating thing for those of you who have no interest in Call of Duty, but the demand for the game means that I have to post about it!

It has been rumoured that another instalment to the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare series is in the midst of production.  Our sources say that Activision's three studios: Raven Software, Infinity Ward, and Sledgehammer Games are teaming up to get the offline single player campaign made and Raven Software is the main producer for the online multiplayer.for this one, that leaves the question....what happened to Treyarch?

A second question that we're left with is why can't Infinity Ward take care of the online multiplayer on their own?  Well, that's solely because last year in March, Activision got rid of Infinity Ward's two founders, they created a new company called Respawn.  Most of the employees of Infinity Ward left to go team up with the two former employees of Infinity Ward, and therefore IW isn't as fully operational as it once was.

I wish that I could give you guys more information but that's all that we have at this moment.  We'll keep you updated!

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