So I've been playing Dead Island and just met up with the wonderfully ANNOYING Floaters. For whatever reason my initial encounter with these creatures was quite... interesting. I had no bombs, no guns, no means of blowing these damned things to hell at all! All I had was blunt objects and my knives. Thank gods for knives!

I was able to simply throw my knives repeatedly into the big jellyish creature and casually just go over gnab them out of his gut and throw them again. Once or twice the Floater actually managed to kill me durring this target practice session but only after i'd hit him. Being that there were other zombles around the big lug I had to slice them to bits with a Shock Cane Knife [no damned crit rockets when ya need 'em!] and doin that seems to be a pretty good thing especially when the zombies seem to freeze frame just as they are goin to hit ya! :P Eazy kill lol But back to the Floater... yea f*kers are annoying at close range.

I do have some other bugga-boo's with Dead Island like having to pay for your own repair job? Shouldn't you save money when YOU repair something yourself? The Majority of crafting seems free as far as what I can tell which is reasonable. The game to me seems to want to be a high brow clone of Dead Frontier but with different zombie types and cars. Dead Frontier for those of you not in the know is an MMO set in a post apoc US where a group of survivors have walled off a city block and have basically made their last stand. It has zombie's with different levels, looting, different weapons [most just improvised weapons] including guns, it has a leveling system and a talent tree of sorts. Don't mention the word 'car' or 'vehicle' on their forums though they dont like being able to mow down zombies with some form of motorized death machine. Though I'm saying this and have not played the game in about a year or so. The main differences are that Dead Frontier happens to have zombie birds, and that the safe haven the people have created comes under attack every hour or so from zombies and the players are rewarded if they happen to join in the defense effort, and the one final fact that you cannot go into different human populated area's... you have one home town and that is it.

Can't we have one game where the game developers atleast try'n turn some of these places that are all destroyed and such into some form of functional place? I mean that Live guard tower thing in Dead Island should have been cleaned up atleast a bit once they got to inhabit it! Another thing that bugs me is that they dont seem to want to expand their area. Push the infected back and widdle their numbers down to nill!

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