PREVIEW: Hands-on with Dead Island!

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Right off the bat you're thrown into an impossibly frantic situation, with nothing but your fists and flip flops. With the dead feeding on any living hotel guests, I quickly grabbed an oar laying in the sand; from here, I began bashing heads without a second thought. DI's combat is mostly melee-based; placed throughout the beach hotel are objects you would normally find on a tropical island resort, such as oars, axes, diving knives, cooking knives, etc. Utilizing these weapons with accurate efficiency yields important points. Head blows merit the highest marks, but don't let that stop you from chopping limbs, or any part of the body for that matter.It all counts.