Dead Island: Riptide Reviews Are In – It’s An Iffy Effort

The embargo for Techland’s Dead Island: Riptide has been lifted, revealing some rather jarring flaws with the sequel, and most sites have rated the horror game accordingly. All scores are below.

Concluded Eurogamer:

What makes that so sad is that this feels like a series only a few great decisions away from being really good. A better script with a sense of humour, a bit more imagination in quest design, more coherent inventory management and character development… These things shouldn’t be unattainable goals for a developer that must be flush from the unexpected success of the first game. If there is to be more Dead Island – and I wouldn’t object to that – then those things must be high priorities for it to avoid another mauling.

As for Riptide? It’s half-fun, but fittingly enough it’s the boring stuff that ultimately kills it.

Eurogamer – 6
IGN – 7.2
GameSpot – 4
MKGaming – 3/5
Destructoid – 5
Kotaku – No score; “It’s too broken to be worth your time.”
VentureBeat – 65/100
GodisaGeek – 7
GamingBolt – 7
ShopTo – No score; “a cheesy zombie bash em’ up”
VGU – 60/100
SavingContent – 3/5
PSU – 7.5
BagoGames – 4/5
OPM UK – 5
CVG – 5.9
GameInformer – 8
VideoGamer – 5
Polygon – 5.5
GamesVillage – 7
OXM US – 7.5
EGM – 6