Dead Island Gameplay Video

GameTrailers has a massive “To Kill Time” gameplay walkthrough for the upcoming FPS/RPG Dead Island, with Deep Silver brand manager Vincent Kummer showing mostly early areas.

It shows the player character (in first person) spending most of the video fighting zombies, but you can spot some of the promised RPG elements in the form of missions and side-missions you can accept, crafting benches, damage counters in combat and XP from kills, the use of special skills, and dialog, though options appear limited to accepting or refusing missions. We see the PC pick up some weapons like “Diving Knife of Havoc”, or the “Baseball Bat of Padding” which has a level requirement of 4. Kummer notes guns are available and powerful but rare and you’re no expert in them, so you spend most of the time in close combat. It also shows the typical open world shooter elements we know, with driving available through the large island map, safe hubs in different spots, and the like. The game is 25-30 hours with 4 player multiplayer.