Dead Island (PC)

Here’s the setup: You dispose of groups of undead en masse. You can use everyday items as makeshift weaponry. You can modify these weapons to make them much more powerful with seemingly useless items scattered throughout the single player campaign. You struggle with item durability and sub-par inventory management. You can modify your weapons at a workbench placed in key areas of the game. Yep, sounds like Dead Rising to me!

Technical blemishes aside, you might be surprised how well loot-driven open-world questing and a tropical zombie apocalypse go together.

The greatest zombie game ever made?

Behind the hype lies a rough but cool RPG.

A schlocky, gruesomely fun action role-playing game awaits you on Dead Island. Bring three friends.

There's not much originality to be found, but Techland's latest milks the last few drops of fun from the zombie genre.