The Definitive Edition is just Dead Island and Riptide with all the DLC and some graphical improvements.
If you were holding out hope that Dead Island: Definitive Edition would address all the problems with Dead Island, or that Deep Silver would spend a lot of money completely altering and improving a five-year-old game that isn’t remembered very fondly, you’ll be disappointed. With Techland now treading similar pastures and doing a hell of a lot better with it, and with Dead Island 2 still in development hell, Deep Silver have teamed back up with Techland to re-release “Definitive Editions” of Dead Island and Riptide along with new title Retro Revenge. Our review was one of the more brutal, with Alan Williamson calling it a “run-of-the-mill hack and snooze adventure a monotonous single player experience and a multiplayer experience full of tragically unfulfilled promises”. Furthermore if you played it single-player you might as well have gone to the Options menu and turned ‘Fun’ to ‘Off’ (it’s just above ‘Film Grain’). Well remembered as one of the buggiest games in the world, Dead Island was also extremely repetitive and the island was just boring to explore. Trouble was despite a protracted period in development Techland just couldn’t quite make it work.
A great game on paper, Dead Island was a first-person free-roaming zombie survival horror with RPG elements and a focus on co-op, sort of like an open-world Left 4 Dead with missions and levelling up.
In 2011 Techland and Deep Silver released Dead Island, and oh boy what a s**tstorm that was.
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