Review2023-04-18

Dead Island 2 review: as disposably entertaining as an electrified pipe-wrench

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Rick Lane Rock Paper Shotgun
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Dead Island 2
Genres · adventure, fps, hack_and_slash, rpg
Release · Apr 21, 2023
Developer · Deep Silver, Dambuster Studios
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78 articles 55 writers 14 reviews
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