

The characters won’t just tell you what’s going to be at the end of the tunnel, but the body parts, documents, weapons and enemies along the way will do half the storytelling.Īh, gorgeous Hell-A. Say you’re going through a mission and your survivor is chatting with one of the NPCs as you go. Rather than giving you waves and waves of zombies to slaughter before every single boss fight, Dead Island 2 uses the level design to tell half the story and dialogue to do the rest. The game does a really good job of setting up each moment using the world as well as dialogue. The occupants of Hell-A are wildly eclectic to say the least, and they make sure to keep your survivor busy doing favors for them and saving their lives. The game takes itself seriously in that the characters want to accomplish their goals and feel as though they can achieve them, but it leans heavily into the satire of stereotypical Los Angeles, California. Her other stats are all average but her skills, which involve getting a Stamina Boost for throwing weapons and attacking lone zombies, aren't particularly useful.The story of Dead Island 2 is funny and lighthearted in the same ways as the first game was, using dark humor to power its way through what would realistically be a traumatizing event. The fastest moving, but least tough character with low peak health. He does the highest Critical Damage though if you think you can maximise that. Low Health and Toughness aren't great, while skills like Backstab - which boosts damage from behind - isn't much use. Health recovery isn't great, countered by a slight health regen when killing multiple zombies quickly, and she can trigger explosions with heavy attacks but it's a limiting way to play.

Has the lowest resistance to elemental attacks.īasically a tank with high Stamina and Resilience to soak up basic and elemental damage, with skills that focus on knocking zombies down and getting health for doing it. His Feral skill is useful, giving a damage boost when attacking quickly in succession. Most of her other stats are average, bar lower movement speed and the lowest Critical Damage. High Resilience and Toughness mean Carla can soak up basic and elemental damage, while her Mosh Pit skill gives her a useful damage boost when surrounded.
