Dead Island Riptide [RePack - Black Box

Friday 21 June 2013

Dead Island Riptide [RePack - Black Box | KaOs]

Developer: Techland
Publisher: Deep Silver / Koch Media
Genre: Action / Horror
Release Date: 23 April 2013
Size: BB 2.47 GB | KaOs 2.24 GB
Parts: BB 1 GB Each | KaOs 0.46 GB Each
Requirements: Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHz, 4 GB RAM, Graphic Card 512 MB (GeForce 9600 GT or better), 7 GB HDD, Windows XP/Vista/7

Riptide offers almost exactly the same experience as Dead Island. The main changes involve a new location, a couple of new zombie types, a new playable character and less glitches in the core gameplay.

The lions share of activity in Riptide involves scrounging for money and parts, crafting weapons using money and parts and using said weapons to hack up attacking zombies that one can then loot for money and parts.

If those activities sound fun just by themselves then Dead Island Riptide could well be one of the most fascinating titles you play every year. The problem for players who desire more moreover is that Riptide is rather low on imagination and depth when it comes to things like mission structure and telling a story that players are likely to care about beyond the ten-minute mark.

Nearly every mission in Riptide is either a fetch-quest or a hub defence quest and while the story starts off with some nefarious CIA-types experimenting on humans, they dont really loom large over the narrative for much of the game. Instead, players are mostly tasked with gathering schematics, building implements of death and then caking their weapons in claret.