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April 17, 2024

Dead Island 2: SoLA

Dead Island 2: SoLA
8.8
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Based on 3 Reviews
72
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April 17, 2024
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Summary

Stage dive into the heart of SoLA, the ultimate Californian music festival, built upon ancient grounds. Stalking the pulsating heart of Los Angeles’ final rave is a psychedelic beat that has unleashed total chaos, leaving nothing but a rotting crater of gore and a malevolent presence haunting the shadows. Something is out there and it’s still hungry.

Key Features

New Storyline – A deadly virus sweeps through The Valley, turning its inhabitants into ravenous zombies as a chthonic rhythm calls from beyond: the beat of the Autophage. Lured to the festival by an enigmatic warning message, players must explore SoLA’s ruins and put a stop to this otherworldly menace.
New Location – A visceral, gore-drenched music festival in the heart of HELL-A echoing to the sound of The Beat which threatens to turn the living into zombies and could soon make its way out of the forsaken city and across the globe.
New Enemies – Including the Whipper, a new apex variant enemy, driven mad with self-loathing by the Autophage. Their compulsion to self-mutilate has turned them into a horrific nightmare of disemboweled intestines, allowing them to lash out at range. Along with this mangled creature is the Clotter, another new unsettling apex zombie, that can decompose into a revolting pile of gore, making it immune from damage in that form, and then reform elsewhere to continue the fight. Capable of firing a powerful jet of putrid blood from their heart, it’s deadly both up close and at a distance.
New Legendary Weapons – Tear the undead apart with the Ripper, a deadly fusion of a baseball bat and circular saw into a percussive machine of dismemberment. For slicing at a distance, try the Sawblade Launcher: a heavy weapon firing rotary sawblades, this is the perfect weapon for ranged decapitation and dismemberment.

Dead Island 2: SoLA Trailer

Dead Island Series Games8

September 6, 2011
72
Dead Island
April 23, 2013
59
Dead Island: Riptide
December 5, 2014
77
Dead Island: Epidemic
April 21, 2023
71
Dead Island 2
November 18, 2014
42
Escape Dead Island
June 1, 2016
65
Dead Island: Retro Revenge
November 2, 2023
68
Dead Island 2: Haus
April 17, 2024
72
Dead Island 2: SoLA

Critic Reviews3

85
SoLA is a brilliant addition to Dead Island 2. The music festival it is set in, combined with the new weapons and enemy types build on what made the main game very successful already. The DLC fits perfectly into an ongoing playthrough of the game or adds a neat little experience for players who have already seen the credits of the game itself.
April 29, 2024
2023’s Dead Island 2 was gaming junk food in the best possible way. It was dumb fun surrounded by smart humor and satire. In SoLa, none of that has really changed. Melee combat is still visceral — literally — and bloody good fun. The game’s visuals remain sharp, detailed, and full of humorous touches. The new DLC is an improvement over Haus, but there are more and more moments where things feel a bit stale, too. Come to SoLa with realistic expectations for more of the same, and it’ll be a pretty good time. Let’s hope that the planned third DLC shakes things up.
April 29, 2024
It is likely that Dead Island 2: SoLA is the last major update for Dead Island 2. It’s a shame then that it’s the weaker of the two post-release add-ons
April 29, 2024

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