But, starting out was much easier and faster. When I started a new character in Dead Island: Riptide I started out with similar equipment (besides the fact that it was adjusted to my new lower level). Related: Why God of War: Ascension's Multiplayer Makes Sense

So when I started Riptide I continuously ran into these enemies and taking them down was a huge hassle. At higher levels there are enemies you can’t get up and personal with, like thugs and suiciders. If you’re debating whether or not to import a character, you’re obviously a veteran of the original game, so you know that once you get guns and ammunition it’s hard to revert back to just melee attacks. But All I had was weak white rarity melee weapons, no guns or viable ranged weapons like I was used to having in the original Dead Island. When I imported my character he started Dead Island: Riptide at level 30. Sure, you have the skills to compensate for tougher enemies, but you don’t have the equipment.

Dead Island: Riptide works off of a leveling system that makes all of the zombies level’s adjusted to your own. But after playing both a new character, and an imported character in Dead Island: Riptide, I’ve realized that the decision isn’t that easy to make.īecause you’re only importing your character’s level and skills, and not his actual equipment, you start the game with enemies of a much higher level. So should you import your character? At first it looks like the answer is simple: why wouldn’t you start the game with a couple of extra levels you already gained in the first game. The only thing that’s imported is your character and his level, you lose all of the equipment, weapons, and blueprints from the original game, and have to recollect an entirely new inventory on the new island. Just click one button on the start a new game screen and the rest of it’s done for you, and quickly, too. It’s super easy to import a character from the original Dead Island to Dead Island: Riptide. And while in most games these features are nothing but beneficial, in Dead Island: Riptide the decision to import your character is a little harder to make. Although, it does suck that once you complete the campaign you can’t run around the island and clean up quests - so make sure you have everything done before heading into the endgame.One feature Dead Island: Riptide has been highlighting is the ability to import your characters from the original game onto Riptide’s island. Just like the original Dead Island (that's a phrase I'm saying a lot today), RPG gameplay saves Riptide from its narrative mistakes and lackluster graphics. Your quest log brims with story missions, you run into side quests wandering the sun-splashed island locales, and Techland tosses in new team missions that make the survivors at your bases more helpful in battle. But what’s so crazy is that once again, this stuff really doesn’t matter. Performance is worst on the PS3 and best on the PC, but no version is unplayable or perfect. Textures pop in, screen tearing persists, and missing frames aren’t uncommon. One failure that can't be ignored is that the world still doesn’t look that hot. It’s through these successes that the impact of Dead Island Riptide’s failures is lessened.

When I was playing co-op with my roommate, I didn’t care that we were talking over a random questgiver’s monologue that person’s story didn’t matter, but our plan for getting an engine back as quickly as possible certainly did. This is why you play this game: it’s great gory fun.

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