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Zombies in Paradise


Hey, it’s a new Dead Island preview! You remember Dead Island, the game with the terrifyingly upsetting CG trailer that traumatized everyone who saw it? Well, this new trailer isn’t nearly so disturbing — which is fine, actually — but this time it does show off a lot of the locations and zombie models and what the game’s actual gameplay will kind of look like, although it doesn’t show any gameplay proper.

Now, you may be sick of zombies and zombie games, and I wouldn’t begrudge that of you. But there several things that make me intrigued by Dead Island: first, the vacation island is a new setting for a zombie game; second, the fact that the gameplay happens in the harsh light of day, unlike virtually every other horror game, makes it actually seem more real, and thus more scary; and third, there are zombies in bikinis, which are both disturbing and kind of sexy, which then makes them more disturbing. As far as zombies games go, this could be a lot worse, is all I’m saying.