Monday, February 21, 2011

Deep Silver shoots down Dead Island

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Publisher Deep Silver's fired a Shotgun blast at the head of rumors pointing to a movie adaptation Dead Island, though assured if the zombie romp were to make the jump to the silver screen it'd be a top notch affair.

Rumors of a flick based on the survival horror outing – which finally crawled out of the woodwork last week after a three-year hiatus – have been flooding the net lately, prompting the publisher to set the record straight
You have probably seen the Dead Island trailer if you are not reading this from under a rock or the Planet Zaed. 

My first impressions were, “Wow, this is captivating. Not, “This is outrageous, that little girl is dead”. OK, it is a little risky showing a dead kid in your opening shot, but in the context of the video, it is justified. There is no controversy to be had here, this is not a game about killing kids, zombie or otherwise. 

In regards to the game itself, can this be anything more than Left 4 Dead, on an island? Guardian UK – Dead Island: will it be the most controversial trailer ever made?The dead kid technique has been used in films and games for quite a while now, this is no new thing. 

In Dead Rising 2, the main character Chuck Greene has a daughter, Katy, she has been bitten and is on the verge of becoming a Zombie and it is your side-task throughout the game to get a chemical called ‘Zombrex’. Also, the F.E.A.R game series has a spooky little girl as their poster child for their title. Alma, an 8 year old girl in a red dress. Alma’s appears in the game at random intervals and make you want to turn the lights on. No controversy there.
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