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Dead Island Reveal Trailer

Creepy computer people eating each other backwards in slow-motion.

Feb. 17 2011

Posted by: Jeff

In This Episode:

Dead Island

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Edited By Telecomdog

I miss LOST... and the game looks great to!!

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Edited By Funzzo

I thought the CG was good.
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Was not expecting this, pleasant surprise, and if zombies are done well I will never complain.

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@csoup said:
"Hopefully this kind of emotion is brought to life in the real game, then we would have a real winner on our hands. "
Exactly what I was thinking. No, we don't really know much about the game, but this is very thoughtfully put together. I like it a lot.
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That was magical.

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Edited By MightyDuck

Very interesting trailer, creepy as hell!

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Edited By boylie

That is fucking bumming me out. Goddamn.

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Edited By Faint

Looks pretty cool. I hope its not just some terrible version of left 4 dead or something though.

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Edited By Vigil80

Looks pretty swell. 
 
Word is that the game's melee weapons will degrade, though, which is bullshit.

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Wow, I... I really hope the game can live up to this.

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Edited By tim

What a crazy awesome trailer, not only did it implant the game forever in my head, it simply was touching as fuck too.

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Edited By MrHammeh
@Pinworm45: 
 
Its the whole atmosphere of it all.  No little things about this trailer make it amazing, its when you suck it all in as one piece that it can be appreciated.  And the perfect song for that too.  Amazing!
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Edited By OldManLollipop

Hellooooooooooooooooooooo uncanny valley

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Edited By ashton

that was just fucking cool

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Edited By CenturionCajun

I have to say I knew nothing about this game and the title did nothing for me. After watching that trailer however I am eagerly awaiting more information. Good job marketing team. You have won my attention.
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Edited By tweetspot

holy crap... why does another zombie game actually look good????? <-the number of question marks indicates how puzzled I am

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Edited By clarke0

I'm tired of zombies, but this trailer was very impressive. Hopefully the game is anything like this in tone or atmosphere.

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I love the trailer, but I prefer the one at IGN where they put it in reverse so everything was running chronologically 

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Edited By landon

Worst case scenario the game sucks and the developers decide to make a movie instead. This was a fantastic trailer.

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That was one of the most intense trailers for a video game I've ever seen.

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Edited By kollay

So, you ARE the zombie?

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Edited By TheDeadComedian

THE best video game trailer I've ever seen. I'm surprised to hear myself say that

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Edited By HydraHam

I am still iffy on a melee only first person based zombie game, the idea is unique i guess and intriguing but it would have to have ALOT of variation in melee weapons to keep me coming back.
 
the 4-player coop is a huge plus though.

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I'm a wizard and...
 
OMG this is depressing

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Edited By damswedon

It is a good cgi-trailer but I don't think it is the golden-plated trailer that people are saying it is.

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@OREOphosphate said:
"   This provokes more feeling than the entire 1st series of The Walking Dead. "
Really? The show's that bad? Man. I haven't watched it (by rule of thumb, games and comics adaptations are off-limits), but I've heard it deviates heavily from the source material. This trailer reminds me of the first arcs of the original TWD comic. You watch it and you feel so impotent and angry and even scared for what may happen to the characters. 
 
I really hope both this game and Telltale's version of TWD end up being good.
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@damswedon:
It's not about the fact that it's CG, though. I thinks it's more about the way action in the trailer is played out that makes it so awesome.
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I loved that music.

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Edited By MachoFantastico

Stunning trailer. 

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Edited By StandStrong

That's the first time a gametrailer had made me want to buy a game without knowing anything about it. Emotional and very cool - I like it

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Edited By TobyD81

That's pretty awesome! I've never heard of this game before, and I'd love to see more!

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Edited By SharkMan

trailer made me very sad :(

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Yo im a Assassin...
 
..and this trailer made me feel emotions!

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Edited By Parabole

This is an awesome trailer with the intimate music and the trailer going from two bad scenarios and ending in the middle, in a caring moment. Very good. The close-up, music, and death of the little girl was sad. =(
Someone edited the trailer to show the clip unfolding in a straight timeline, and it looked generic. I didn't even care what the game was about. But I did see that the little girl returned to normal after dying (as a zombie).

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Best game trailer I've ever seen

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Edited By Goblinoid

I waited a few years for the game and lost my hope for it ever becoming released.
 
And then, out of nowhere, game this trailer. I was "You gotta be kidding me!". In a positive way.
 
This was just what I had hoped for. Back when L4D was coming, I hoped that Left 4 Dead would be a game where you peek around the corner.. "Ok.. No flesh-eating zombies..". Then you rush and *BAM*, car-alarm starts sounding. With an intense adrenaline-rush, you haste to the nearest apartment, hide with a kitchen knife in your hands and hope that the zombies didn't see you. And I got extreme action horror where there is plenty of guns and magical safe rooms inside corrugated iron cabins.
 
I don't want 2 weeks after the infection. I want RIGHT NOW THE INFECTION! And this seems to be just the case.

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Random...but neat work nonetheless.
Could be fun! (..?)

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Edited By Raikoh

This is game from Techland.  Call of Juarez series and Nail'd. 

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Edited By KarlPilkington
@JoeyRavn said:
" @OREOphosphate said:
"   This provokes more feeling than the entire 1st series of The Walking Dead. "
Really? The show's that bad? Man. I haven't watched it (by rule of thumb, games and comics adaptations are off-limits), but I've heard it deviates heavily from the source material. This trailer reminds me of the first arcs of the original TWD comic. You watch it and you feel so impotent and angry and even scared for what may happen to the characters.  I really hope both this game and Telltale's version of TWD end up being good. "
The Walking Dead TV series is great.
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Amazing trailer, but all the switches between slo-mo-backwardyness and normal-paced-forwardyness made it kinda hard keep up.

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@Pop said:

" this is probably the best zombie game trailer I have ever seen, the game can't be as good as this. This is made by the guys that made Call of Juarez and Nail'd soooo... nah probably won't be this good. "

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood was actually pretty good IMO. Don't know why people aren't cutting that game some slack.
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Like Heavy Rain.....But with Zombies!
 
Not a bad mix.

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BEST TRAILER EVER

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Edited By GunnBjorn

Man, this makes me wonder. When making a CGI movie like this, where do CGI artists even begin?! This trailer is the result of an extreme level of talent! There are moments that look incredibly life-like (01:48); the facial expressions are uncanny! And, of course, the emotions this trailer conjures up are heartrending (02:28). And it all started as a happy family on vacation... Yes, I admit, I felt a lump in my throat. Well done, Techland!    
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Edited By Phoenix0010

When I first saw this I thought "LOST, with zombies." Then I saw the first frames and the background music and thought my suspicions had been confirmed. Thank goodness theres a hotel resort in there somewhere. That ought to make it atleast a tiny bit different.

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Great, now I'm all depressed. :(

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That was just fucking wonderful.

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Edited By IBurningStar

OK....that was neat, I guess.

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Edited By duskvamp

I remember seeing a video for this ages ago, completely forgot about it. First time I saw the trailer I thought 'Here we go... more zombies', but I love it, just hope that the game lives up to the phenomenal hype that this trailer is causing..

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Edited By landhawk

A game? About zombies? What a novel and refreshing concept!