Dead Island Riptide Preview

PSX Extreme is offering a fairly short preview for Dead Island Riptide, which sounds like mostly a round-up of the available info. Here’s a snip:

Developer Techland plans to make this new title bigger and better in just about every possible way. That’s exactly what we want from a sequel, right? Well, for the record, they’re calling this more of an expansion than a sequel; you can import your save from the first title so you can use your leveled-up characters at the start of Riptide. And the tropical setting has returned, even though you’ll be on a different island called Palanai (before you were on Banoi). Once again, enhancing combat skills and crafting new weapons with which to battle the undead horde will take center-stage.

While the first game was solid entertainment, I remember having an issue with some technical and design miscues. Techland swears those drawbacks will disappear in Riptide and they’ve also worked to implement several positive tweaks For instance, while weapons will still lose their effectiveness over time, if you’re more proficient with a certain weapon, it will degrade slower. The guns have also been overhauled and are said to be deadlier. Therefore, if you nail a charging foe in the head, it’s probably gonna die. The rest of the game will play out similarly in comparison to the original, with one very significant addition.