Escape Dead Island Critic Reviews

Escape Dead Island was a surprise for me. For a budget title and a spinoff of the series, it’s way better than it should be.

Escape Dead Island is a decent game, but nothing more (though also nothing less).

Escape Dead Island is totally different than any other entries in this franchise. The graphical design and the spontaneous happenings are entertaining, but the shallow combat system, the scant choice in weapons and the many crashes make this game very average.

Fans of the franchise will love this spin-off, but even they will have to put up with the terrible checkpoints and audiovisual hick-ups. Clumsy game design at its err... best?

It truly rides that line of mediocrity without falling into either camp too heavily. If you’re curious, I’d say go for it. It does enough right to make it worthwhile to play through for those that can enjoy themselves despite some missteps.

Technical issues weigh down a game that could be good enough because, even when it doesn't catch the eye with its plot, the main character's charisma or its mechanics, it entertains while you unfold the mysteries of Narapala and the origin of the virus that turned the paradise into a swarming hell of zombies.

A big misstep on the path to the second Dead Island chapter. Developer Fatshark clearly rushed things, to the point where there are really few reasons to play this spin off.

There's a pervasive plainness to Escape Dead Island that hasn’t been common since the PlayStation 2 days.

There isn't much reason to play Escape Dead Island. The narrative has a few standout moments and you'll occasionally meet an enemy that will throw you for a loop. Those moments are, unfortunately, needles in a haystack of monotonous gameplay that's ultimately boring.

Escape Dead Island is a very poor quality game, with so many flaws and bad design choices.

It could have been a good spin-off, but in the end there's very little to save in this particular zombie apocalypse.

I’m going to be honest with you, I haven’t finished Escape Dead Island yet. I just can’t bring myself to. The game plods along at a snail’s pace and just never hooks you. It’s certainly not the worst game I have ever played, but it’s bland and generic and feels rushed and unfocused.

A game that leaves you basically going through the motions to get through a relatively short tale that has moments of intrigue, but otherwise falls flat.

Poorly written, poorly executed and designed. Even the most die-hard fans of Dead Island will find it difficult to accept this spin-off.

Escape Dead Island is a terrible game with substandard graphics, unimaginative and rigid gameplay, convoluted story and unforgivable optimization issues.

Wading through all that offal to get to the mildly interesting stuff is hardly time well spent.

Escape Dead Island was almost a good experience, there was just six hours of terrible gameplay holding it back.

Filled with promises, Escape Dead Island was supposed to give an added deeper view of the series's global plot. All it manages to achieve is to bring the player on the verge of a nervous breakdown thanks to its appalling development quality, and the sheer number of bugs and crashes it suffers.

Escape Dead Island should be avoided at all costs. The moment to moment gameplay is intolerable as you have to endure dull combat, an insulting lead character, and redundant backtracking through ugly environments. Pile on the game-stopping technical nightmares, and it all amounts to being one of the worst games of the year. It's not worth digging through corpses to salvage it.

To put it simply Escape Dead Island is a cash grab using the Dead Island name, before the franchise completely moves to the new consoles with Dead Island 2. There’s nothing really satisfying about Escape Dead Island, even if you are a huge fan of zombies or Dead Island.