“We want you to get really up close and visceral in our game. “We really want this to be a sort of personal journey, right?” says art director Adam Olson as I recount studying this undead woman – watching the way the skin moved independently of her flesh, watching how she twitched, and shuffled, and wobbled as she struggled against the sand. And her guidance was appreciated, because what a stunning game it is. She told me to soak in the ambiance – the sights, the sounds, and *deep breath* yes, even the sweet rotting smells – of this doomed Los Angeles as we sat down to get about an hour’s worth of time with Dead Island 2. It’s HELL-A, per an enthusiastic Dambuster rep, who is basically our tour guide for this unlikely excursion to a doomed west coast vacation. She could be drunk, in another time and place, and just off for a walk down Venice beach.īut this isn’t LA. There’s an undead woman – flesh hanging off her cheek in a clump – limping towards you. Alongside the wash of the sea, you can hear subdued, guttural groaning, the shuffling of Crocs through sand. You can see the ebbing of the shoreline, how the light scatters differently on the surface of the waves versus the sand. It’s midnight, and the light of a full moon glints on the surface of the Pacific Ocean.
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