Friday, September 2, 2011

Dead Island: Slice and Dice in Paradise

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/118/1185181p1.html

The only major criticism that we can level at the game based off our one-hour hands-on is that the voice acting is straight up awful.Given that the island in question – the fictitious 'Banoi' – is supposedly situated off the coast of Papua New Guinea, the bulk of the survivors in the game appear to be holiday-goers from the neighboring countries of Australia and New Zealand. Yet their jumbled dialects make them sound like Polish people impersonating a South African mimicking Paul Hogan from his 'shrimp on the barbie' tourism commercials from the eighties. It's possible the audio was still placeholder in this early build of the game, but with only a month to go until the game's release its most likely that these voices will stay, and the clumsiness of the acting really lessens the impact of any drama the game is trying to create.