Dead Island for Mac – Zombie apocalypse half and half shooter RPG
It a few weeks ago on the Dead Island Mac App Store, exploration and action game set in a tropical island overrun by the undead. The elements are those of a classic zombie movie with so much blood and a strong RPG component.
Zombie movie and first-person shooters, of course, are not two ingredients whose sum would think of an original result, and yet these are the elements that have made the success of Dead Island. Game consoles and PCs in 2011 a few weeks ago has made its landing on the Mac App Store.
But then these two labels are not sufficient to frame the title, which has one of its strengths the ability to go beyond the constraints of a genre, while exploiting the highly successful genre of the undead raised by the international success of the series The Walking Dead which of the comic books by Robert Kirkman, came on the small screen just a few months before the first release of Dead Island. The game, brought last April on the Mac platform by Koch Media and developed by Techland, is an open world to be explored with a first-person perspective, with the ability to be played individually or with a party with up to four players.
In Dead Island was a strong RPG component, with characters that can be customized and improved by increasing the statistics of different skills by spending experience points that you earn at the end of each battle. In addition to the life, the characters, they also have a bar that monitors the strength and going down as you make strenuous actions: run, jump or melee combat. For ” reload “, it will be necessary to stop periodically to draw breath.
In addition to exploring and ” growth ” of the character, then, the game requires good skills and strategic adaptation, proposing different situations in which it is not enough simply to shoot the opponents rotting, but need to be creative. Finding improvised weapons or inventing the way best (or the least risky) to get out of trouble.
The story of Dead Island is set on a tropical island home of a prestigious resort. A paradise on earth that suddenly turns into a living hell. The morning after a party, the four protagonists (the rapper Sam B., the former football player Logan, the clerk of the hotel Xian Mei and bodyguard Purna) are woken by the hotel, with a voice that invites all to abandon the property.
Obviously, there’s a fire going, but a strange epidemic that turns humans into undead killers and hungry for human flesh. And of course, the final effect is a high-rate splatter, tones, even narrative rather gloomy.
The graphics are smooth, with details of the tropical manicured, supported by the proprietary graphics engine Techland Chroma, here come the fifth version. The minimum system requirements are not really minimal: need an Intel Core i5 2.7 GHz, with 8 GB of memory and a Nvidia GeForce 640M 512MB, OS X 10.8.5.
Dead Island is available at $ 21.99.
