Dead Island sells 5 million

Good for them, but anyone using the word "zeitgeist" to compliment themselves, automatically makes my "pretentious BS"-detector to go wild.

I dont like zombie games but the playability of this game is awesome. The melee combat is so intense!

Cant wait riptide!

I BET people who got frustrated with the last entries of RE series turned to Dead Island hoping to recover survival horror core elements, like zombies and limited ammo.

Anything with ZOMBIES are so popular nowadays. Glowing hot. Seems to be the new 'in thing', makes a great cash cow. Man why didn't I patent this thing,......... Damm.  My current fav is the Walking Dead but I really like Plants vs Zombies. So....... what's with US?  Is this the beginning of world slowly going brain dead? ...........  Ha ha....    Ha ha haaaa. Could someone please pass me the plate of 'Brains Cordon Bleu' I'm hungry! lol

For the $10 I paid for it at Best Buy on Black Friday, it's a fun purchase.

The game had issues, no doubt. But it's still one of my favorite zombie games. It was just rough around the edges. I hope they improve the graphics, voice acting and shooting in future games.

who cares how many were shipped?   

"While others focus on ever-increasing development budgets and driving brand messages via ballooning marketing expenditures, Deep Silver stands for hitting the zeitgeist, innovation and fresh gameplay,"

Is this guy serious? The game that rode in on the one trailer that everyone thought was amazing and caused so much hype? Then ultimately let a huge group of us gamers down?
The game that had the most broken combat system and crippled its own gameplay?
Innovation does not mean copy/pasting huge chunks of other games into its own core mechanics.

Well it was certainly different, but not always in a good way.

For some reason his statement seems a bit hypocritical to me...

That's good I guess, even though the game gets painfully boring after the first act.

This is good news, those sales figures guarantee a sequel. Hopefully Techland will take this opportunity to fix all the problems and make the true Dead Island (the game we were all so hyped for).

Publisher is a bit cocky considering this game was mediocre at best and was decent with a friend. To me, every zombie game is never going to be innovative as the one and only Left 4 Dead. That game topped everything and assured itself no competition with unlimited replay value and an amazing co-op experience. Too bad we'll never see innovation like that ever again in the game industry with zombie games. Dead Island was good at first, but then it felt I was forcing myself to play the game after I left the hotel.

sweetex

This game was ok alone, but once you experience co-op with some friends it really shines.  I have plenty of good memories playing this game with friends online.  Definitely worth a try for anyone who hasn't yet.

I picked it up recently, & although I'm not a massive FP fan, or Zombie or come to think of it hand held weapons fan, I really enjoyed it. Its like Borderlands with blunt/sharp implements instead of a big array of guns. 

I had heard that it was glitch ridden, but I've had none. A strong 7/10 for me, well worth ago at a budget price.

I don't understand the love for this game. I tried it two different times and eventually lost interest (especially after leaving hotel area). It was a clunky mess, horrible voice acting, horrible story, upgrades were clunky, ugly to look at (even on PC)... just not a good game.

They're right about one thing: you don't need a big budget, but marketing doesn't hurt. That said, I think they can afford to throw an extra million or so dollars into game testing. There are a couple design decisions and bugs that should have never happened especially with Borderlands around to show them how to do it right.

I recently bought it on Steam for $5.  I really enjoyed the game up through the first area in the resort.  However, when you get to the small city area, the game just gets tedious and I lost all interest.  Definitely worth the $5, but I think it would have been better if they had scaled back the entire experience, and maybe just made the game revolve around a slightly larger version of that opening area, with a few more indoor areas to explore.  When a game does a few small things really well, there's no need to stretch the experience too thin, which is what they did. 

Enjoyed playing co-op in dead island, but it was definitely missing things to make it a great game. Hopefully Riptide is better.

Still playing it :) 

I got the GOTY on Xbox 360 and well worth it but the Main Characters were all just bad, the game tried so hard to like Jin which she was so stupid, and it had too many Glitches. Deep Silver please don't F%&* up Riptide.

Found this game was pretty good, keep up the good work and keep showing the "others" how its done.

It is a fun game that has its issues. But still, I enjoyed it. I just hope weapons don't break so fast in Riptide.

Deep Silver stands for hitting the zeitgeist, innovation and fresh gameplay," he said. Yes, that and bugs. Massive, game crashing bugs. And who needs an advertising budget when you get free press for releasing offensive collectibles with your deluxe game editions. 

my unopened copy has been sitting here since black friday

should i open it?

I enjoyed the first game and I'm looking forward to the next installment Riptide.

its a very good game , but i think they are pretty lucky it has sold this amount of copies.

The game didn't start out very well when it was first released on Steam.  Still, once you got through that it was loads of fun.  Especially, if you brought some friends along in the co-op.

Fairly surprised that this sold so many copies, then again it does have zombies in it...

I really tried to give this game a chance but it just couldn't happen, hated every moment of it.

This game gets alot of hammer, yes its flawed in many places i found places where the scenery tore something chronic on the PS3 version but I found if you put that aside (and took it offline) alot of the so called issues simply disappeared, I enjoyed the game it was a newer approach to Zombie games, I did write a review to this game I think .... but my point is it caught alot of flak but it is a damn good game if you give it a chance. As for the trailer .... I never saw it, bought the game on a whim.

Impressive numbers for one of the most "numbers in screen" games out there. And it's curious how they mention the use of marketing, not like Dead Island didn't do something very different that had little to do with the game on that trailer.

This game is awesome. I don't know where all the hate comes from. Analog combat was first class. Chop, chop, chopping limbs off is what a zombie game should be about.

yeah, they really focused on gameplay, i can tell by how quick i got bored from swinging oars and other crap at zombies. Took me 30 minutes to hate this game.

This game selling well sickens me. It's an absolute disgrace that a game can do well purely because of a blatantly misleading cinematic trailer that was in no way a representation of the actual game. I laughed at the people that hyped the game based on that trailer back then. Now I'm not laughing. It's not funny any more. Now it's just sad.

Its constantly on sale so....yeah.

Dead Island sold 5 million copies... That says something... Not sure what exactly since it wasn't a good game.  It wasn't a "bad" game but it certainly wasn't a good game either.  Glad I got it cheap.

One of my faforite games of 2011.