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Dead Island Developer Techland Trademarks 'Dead World'

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Posted November 3, 2011 - By Adam Rosenberg




Dead Island

Once the calendar year ticks over into 2012 and we can start talking about the events of the current year in the past tense, I'm pretty sure that many gamers will end up looking to Techland's Dead Island as one of the year's sleeper hits. The first-person open-world RPG is a buggy good time, a melee-focused slugfest that is held back, but not ruined, by a few notable technical limitations.

The game made a splash and sold well for the developer, which of course means that we'll probably be seeing a sequel at some point. Techland hasn't gone on record with any official announcements, but a recently discovered (via Siliconera) trademark filing in the U.S. for something called "Dead World" is connected with the Polish studio.

Hardly confirmation, but let's all try to remember that the September 6 release isn't even two months old yet. Good to know though; a Dead Island sequel that leaves the island of Banoi behind -- as a "Dead World" title would suggest -- can only be a good thing.

Source: Siliconera

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  • VanitySepulcher

    I adored this game. I did unfortunately run in to a few minor bugs, but nothing too terrible. At the very end on the roof of the prison the zombies were coming through the walls. I couldnt get away fast enough. I liked the co-op very much but my second and third time playing i missed out on major mods because nobody would stick together. I honestly cant wait for a sequel. Maybe I wont buy it new so any major flaws should be patched.

    Posted: February 19, 2012 3:29 AM
    VanitySepulcher
  • xboxjoe96

    I loved this game at first but once i reached lvl 40 it would freeze and wouldnt let play as that character anymore it has done this three times. I love this game it justs breaks me to know ill never be able to reach lvl 50

    Posted: November 3, 2011 3:44 PM
    xboxjoe96
  • greydeath63

    At first I loved this game but the bugs and ultimate problems with save game not loading is a killer!
    I m level 30 in the game and started seeing glitches that would appear to be as if there were going to be become something of a nuisances. but the bugs began to become worse as the game progress.

    zombie running through walls
    being attacked be invisible zombie
    Using fast travel caused items to disappear
    zombies spawning rapidly
    On top of a truck I killed 42 infected that continue to spawn out of no ware and climbed an invisible wall an attacked me
    At another point my son and I were playing co-op, and the game had nothing but infected, no other zombie was visible in the game
    Infected becoming super zombies and running up 2 story walls during the third cerabus head mission.
    Zombies and human advisories spawning just after the are killed (while in the same game screen
    while playing co-op game freeze during game play and all game play being lost
    Suicide zombies taking no damage when attacked and do not responded to any action
    trucks and other none playable characters missing but still can be heard
    in water presumed dead zombies attacking from behind, in this case a drowned female zombie I just took cash off of attacked me from behind the second I turned from facing her. I killed he again her again and backed away only one body was present.
    Thug in the police station kept spawning, I went in and killed the thug and the other zombie in the first office you come to, left and killed the Suicider and other zombie behind the gate and turn around to find the other thug was alive again in the office. I opened the door again burned him and finished him off a second time, check the other door at the back of the office to fond it locked. went around the through the gate killed all of the zombies. looked through the window from the other side of the office only to see the thug was back. My son said this did not happen when he came through.
    Objects disappearing from my storage, money from items I just sold would be there but if I left the area I was in when I sold them it would be gone and no I had not died and lost it to the resurrection charge.
    areas of my map that have been explored have become green again as if they were never explored.
    game began hang on log in, and now after finding the green skull my game will not get past the loading screen.

    Normally I would blame this on a bad game and try and get it replaced. but I was told that these are known issue with the game. I was told there would be patch coming out but have not seen one. I went to their web site but could not find any acknowledgement that there were any problems with the game. Which hacked me off because I work in the IT industries and the first thing we do is acknowledge there is an issue and send out steady updates until the issue is resolved.

    We suffer steep penalties if we to do not resolve the problem in a timely manor. It took me search and going on customer blogs to find out was was going on and how sever the problems are with this game. I have read how there is possible a problem with the storage and that there is a invisible number of items you can carry. I have also ready about the save and freeze problems and that the only advise that has been given is to load a game with the same character and you will be able to start over at the last save point, ONLY MINUS YOU ITEMS AND EQUIPMENT< AND AT LEVEL 1 EXPERIENCE! I don t want to replays the game over like that or start over at all, I paid for a game that was finished and not buggy, I paid for a fun game experience!

    At some point they will be forced to acknowledge there is a large problem here and deal with it. In the mean time word of mouth is spreading and they will continue lose customers. I am telling my colleagues and friends to not buy this game, at least until it has been fixed. Until then I will refer them to other games.

    The need to make right by the customers they have duped into buying a game that was not ready form market these issues should have been caught during quality control testing. they need to make restitution to the customers who brought their product and will not be able to finish the game. I will gladly sell them back the game for what I paid for it, I will not even charge them for the hours of inconvenience I ve experienced. This way they can shut me up! and I can buy a game that actually works like BATMAN, Arkham City!

    It s really to bad because I was truly enjoying the game, and can understand problems that occur in the rush to get a product out the door. What I can not tolerate is a complete disregard for the consumer!

    Posted: November 3, 2011 12:12 PM
  • lowkevmic

    I think and open world zombie MMO, would be awesome. I doubt if that's what they're up to, but someone needs to be.

    Imagine an online survival open world game, where you can play online with a team of up to maybe 5 people. All of you must rely on each other to survive, and you travel the world in search of everything from weapons, first aid, shelter, and the possiblity of other teams or tribes of people. As you find more and build a larger tribe, your chance at finding a cure and restoring humanity is greater by the numbers....Wait...did I just describe The Walking Dead?? Okay, I think I did, but it would make for an awesome MMO.

    Posted: November 3, 2011 10:29 AM
    lowkevmic
  • mykellpickle

    i love this game for one yea buggy but cant wait for dlc to keep playing it this game is a visionary in its field to say the least like border lands was to Fps RPG progression i cant think of any other company that even tried to do something on this scale like techland did to zombie island and u cant ignore the fact the game is simply beautiful

    Posted: November 3, 2011 10:21 AM
  • BONERJAM

    I liked Dead Island but I got kinda bored with it near the end. Also if they are making a sequel I would like to see a split screen co-op option.

    Posted: November 3, 2011 10:20 AM
    BONERJAM
  • mykellpickle

    @ macross2012 nd knight5000
    you two are really just hatting on a company lets see you two make a open world zombie game........ yea didn't think you could if ur complaining about it dont buy it no one cares to hear people slander a game alot of people actually like so good day to u two haters

    Posted: November 3, 2011 10:17 AM
  • mykellpickle

    @macross2012 and knight5000
    you two are just haters hatting on everything i thought this was a good game buggy yes but not a bad game like u guys make it sound now GTFO if u have anything bad to say no one care about ur input u wanker's

    Posted: November 3, 2011 10:11 AM
  • ninenightmares

    Where's my add-on that's what i care about.

    Posted: November 3, 2011 10:03 AM
    ninenightmares
  • PiMD360

    I enjoyed the game, and can't wait for DLC. Truthfully I did not run into one bug and I logged 30+ hours.

    Posted: November 3, 2011 10:02 AM
    PiMD360
  • knight5000

    The first-person open-world RPG is a buggy good time, a melee-focused slugfest that is held back, but not ruined, by a few notable technical limitations."
    Are you kidding me? The game had more glitched files then working ones.
    And did any of you ever call the company support line? They outright hung up on me or gave me the runaround for 2 solid weeks.

    Posted: November 3, 2011 8:43 AM
    knight5000
  • macross2012

    Dont know if anyone is going to trust this company to buy another game from them after how badly this was released. And if your telling me they are making a Zombie MMO, think again..

    Posted: November 3, 2011 8:19 AM
    macross2012

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