I don't agree with the "Review is something subjective"... there is a share of subjectivity and of objectivity.

Reviews ARE NOT opinions. That's why you are journalists.

A review should analyze how well the creators achieved their creative goals. Does the final product achieves what they proposed and how well it does.

Not being of the person's (reviewer) taste SHOULD NOT be the focus. Otherwise the review becomes an opinion, something that any of us could write.

Honestly, I don't like Dead Island and can't say much about this review in particular, but it's kind of bad to hear that people in Gamespot think their job is simply giving out opinions.

Ridiculous.

Killing, racism... it's all perfect for a religious person... so stupid

it's 60% of their game... 20% are cutscenes 5% are menus and 15% are gameplay, not great gameplay, just gameplay.

Looks like BF3 on Pc... not impressed.

Let the franchise die already.

Or, at least, rest for some time.

They are blaming the promotion the game had??

Has anyone at Capcom actually played the game?

It's bad. Done, there's the explanation.

Btw, great soundtrack in the kickstarter video... Is this part of the Dreamfall (2nd game) soundtrack?

Was actually surprised with Dead Space 3...

It was a better game than the 2nd.

It was never an horror game for me, it was always an action game with some horror elements.

Pacing and graphics in this one are great.

@kukumav Wow, what you said is ridiculous.

To make a game you need money! Game companies go to publishers to try to sell their game (or the concept of it) and if the publisher thinks the game will give them great income when launched, they fund it.

Thing is, the industry is mostly run by business man that have more notion of market than art, and force creators to make their game as it would be more profitable, compromising artistic views.

Those artist that want to create their games as they imagine can't find publishers to fund their projects, therefore they try their chance directly with gamers and artist on kickstarter.

It's one of the greatest things nowadays.

@handelo But I doubt Physx will have much impact now...

Both of them uses AMD hardware, I'm not a tech, but shouldn't it make games easier to have a port more compatible with AMD techs?

And Physx is already a gimmick... Consoles having no support for it, physics will still be calculated on CPU, and I doubt many developers would re-code them for CUDA.