{"id":38060,"date":"2023-04-18T16:11:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T16:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/dead-island-2-review-a-one-note-thrill-but-its-a-note-that-absolutely-sings\/"},"modified":"2023-04-18T16:11:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T16:11:15","slug":"dead-island-2-review-a-one-note-thrill-but-its-a-note-that-absolutely-sings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/games\/dead-island-2-review-a-one-note-thrill-but-its-a-note-that-absolutely-sings\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Island 2 review: “a one note thrill, but it’s a note that absolutely sings”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The zombies in Dead Island 2 don’t just die, they perform. They rupture and break, pinwheeling through the air with shattered bone fragments jutting at ugly angles from limbs. Jaws flap loosely, hanging lopsided on a last strip of skin, while eyeballs swing from sockets, rolling around rotting cheeks on a shred of nerve as they stare at the ground. Best of all they melt, <\/em>with acid based weapons sloughing flesh and muscle from bone like an angry candle under a blowtorch. As their mass drips away they eventually lose the structure and power they need to walk, collapsing like a bundle of sticks when they try to take a step they no longer have the physical mass to complete.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The zombies in Dead Island 2 don’t just die, they perform. They rupture and break, pinwheeling through the air with shattered bone fragments jutting at ugly angles from limbs. Jaws flap loosely, hanging lopsided on a last strip of skin, while eyeballs swing from sockets, rolling around rotting cheeks on a shred of nerve as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38063,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38060\/revisions\/38063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}