4/5 ★ – RoseFNV's review of Dead Island 2.
Kinda sucks that after 12 years this comes back just to end on a cliffhanger, but overall this is MUCH better than it has any right to be. There's just so much to love and have fun with here; lots of really well designed and absolutely gorgeous world spaces that are all super fun to explore and murder zombies in, a well rounded tone that dashes solidly between campy and serious and a combat system that is Super satisfying when combined with the Insanely detailed gore mechanics and well designed enemy encounters and the variety of the various weapons. Even the Ranged weapons manage to be fairly fun here, which is a shocker considering how much I hated them in the first game. Honestly shocked to have liked this as much as I did, Especially since I didn't really like Riptide or the first one, but this gets the formula for these games in a way even the OG developers didn't, and I'm shocked such insane quality came from the devs of homefront the revolution of all things. Overall, I really had a lot of fun with this? I'll definitely play a sequel now that it's been confirmed this is doing really well financially and the likelihood of one's existence is all but confirmed, and I'm really glad to have given Hell-A the chance it deserved.