{"id":26737,"date":"2015-05-15T06:44:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T11:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26737"},"modified":"2015-05-15T12:17:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T17:17:57","slug":"dead-island-ep-3-theyre-massacring-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26737","title":{"rendered":"Dead Island EP 3: They&#8217;re Massacring Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ikpqstSmFmc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ikpqstSmFmc'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>On Metacritic, The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct (<a href=\"?p=26676\">which we covered last week<\/a>) has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/game\/pc\/the-walking-dead-survival-instinct\">38 on metacritic<\/a> while Dead Island has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/game\/pc\/dead-island\">a score of 80<\/a><span class='snote' title='1'>The scores are closer if we go by user reviews, with scores of 2.5 and 6.8, respectively.<\/span>. This makes no sense to me. Both are mechanically confused and unpolished games about fighting zombies. Is the knife-execution move of Survival Instinct really that much dumber than the high-kick of Dead Island? Don&#8217;t they both have about the same desultory approach to dialog and &#8220;story&#8221;? They both have the same energy drink = healing idea. Both have glitchy unpolished art, although I concede that Dead Island looks technically superior even if it&#8217;s artistically on about the same level.<\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;m not saying the two games are equal.<\/em> I&#8217;m just curious as to why Dead Island is rated <em>so<\/em> much higher. And I&#8217;m not just talking about review scores. Dead Island was given a larger spotlight, more favorable reviews, and was a current story for longer after release, while Survival Instinct was a passing joke.<\/p>\n<p>Is it because the eye-grabbing trailer give us journalists something to talk about? Is it because Dead Island has more modern graphics? Is it because Survival Instinct is a licensed game and nobody takes those seriously anyway? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) On Metacritic, The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct (which we covered last week) has 38 on metacritic while Dead Island has a score of 80The scores are closer if we go by user reviews, with scores of 2.5 and 6.8, respectively.. This makes no sense to me. Both are mechanically confused and unpolished games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[421],"class_list":["post-26737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-dead-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}