Dead Island for $34

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Check out greenmangaming.com, select Dead Island, put it in the cart and add code: READY-UPDEA-ISLAN

After checkout it will give you a code which you can put into Steam to start downloading the game.

[[RDH]CAZ[B]]

Nice find. Did you pick it up? If so, what's the verdict?

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Yes I did... It was solid after I got past the first glitch, which was disabling my 2nd monitor. After the intial startup and setting the resolution to 1920x1200 max settings, I exited and enabled my 2nd monitor and it worked.

I played it for about 4 hours.. stumbled across the ability to no clip.. and generally had a decent time with it. The next day there was a patch as the steam version was determined to have been a dev and not final release.

After that multiplayer has sucked ass.. way too much lag. No patch has been issued since. Clearly this title should have had another month to bake.

Game looks good.. in most ways a little worse than Crysis, but in some ways better. Here is a screenshot (http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970463573/screenshot/558667380708327966) from the balcony.

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Think L4D2 meets Dead Rising 2 meets Far Cry meets Oblivion.

Graphics? Eh, they'll do. Saying it looks a little worse than Crysis is being overly generous though.

As for the version, they are currently saying the wrong version has been uploaded, and it's suppose to be fixed by Friday (when it unlocks for the rest of the world). I know after the Steam trade patch came out, the multiplayer stopped working altogether for a lot of us. There was another patch released not too long ago that I haven't had a chance to try yet.

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The wrong version was uploaded? What a bunch of bozos! I mean s**t happens but... pretty stupid mistake I'd say. In my world that would be like going to a shareholders' meeting with the wrong budget!

[[RDH]CAZ[B]]

Parts[OT];5679']The wrong version was uploaded? What a bunch of bozos! I mean s**t happens but... pretty stupid mistake I'd say. In my world that would be like going to a shareholders' meeting with the wrong budget!

You say that like it's not happening right now in the corporate world:p

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well.. they patched it, and it is pretty solid. Still needs some multiplayer tweaks, like vote kick. And having mics always on is a bit annoying.

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Been having a lot of fun with it. Yes, the mic situation is annoying. We tried disabling it at first (which unfortunately for Steam, you have to quit out to achieve this, but at least you can). In the end we just put up with it.

Ex, Skipforeplay, Ninjacat and I had a blast playing it last night. It was Skip and Ninjacat's first time playing, each of us wound up choosing a different character, and we played through the entire first act. Looking forward to some more. :cool:

Despite the multiplayer being restored, we've continued to use Hamachi to connect to eachother. It's just more convenient to find only our games.