Dead Island does it again with Riptide CG teaser trailer

Dead Island Riptide is following the footsteps of its predecessor by releasing a sappy pre-rendered trailer that is nothing like the game it is supposedly "inspired" by.

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Dead Island Riptide is following the footsteps of its predecessor by releasing a sappy pre-rendered trailer that is nothing like the game it is supposedly "inspired" by.

Similar to Dead Island's much-viewed teaser, When All Hope Is Lost shows what happens when "ordinary people" get caught in a zombie invasion. Emotional piano music accompanies a couple's tender embrace--before the zombies get to them, of course.

Initial reactions on YouTube have been mixed, with one user noting "I ain't falling for that sh-t again." Another added: "Well, they do know how to make good trailers!" Dead Island Riptide will be available on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 in 2013.

Andrew Yoon was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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    September 18, 2012 9:40 AM

    Andrew Yoon posted a new article, Dead Island does it again with Riptide CG teaser trailer.

    Dead Island Riptide is following the footsteps of its predecessor by releasing a sappy pre-rendered trailer that is nothing like the game it is supposedly "inspired" by.

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      September 18, 2012 9:41 AM

      Jesus you guys get upset over the silliest shit.

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        September 18, 2012 9:41 AM

        i don't think it's silly at all. it's really disappointing at least for me.

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          September 18, 2012 9:44 AM

          ^ Bingo. A really good trailer that doesn't represent the actual gameplay at all is misleading. I consider Dead Island to be a disappointment compared to what I pictured when I saw that trailer.

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            September 18, 2012 9:49 AM

            It's a CG trailer, I don't see how anyone could compare it to gameplay. It was about zombies at a resort and it made people take interest in the game. It's just like a cool cutscene as an intro to the game.

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              September 18, 2012 9:53 AM

              It was a pre-release trailer, so it should have been intended to give people some idea of what the game is like. The only thing it communicated accurately was "this game has zombies". It completely misrepresented the tone of the game.

              Compare this to the pre-release trailers for Borderlands 2. They're equally well done and tell you exactly what the game is like.

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                September 18, 2012 10:01 AM

                I had a pretty good idea that it was a game with zombies that took place at a resort on an island. All of which seemed to be prominently featured in the game. And we got a cool little short to help gain interest before release. So a good game and a good short, that's two wins imo.

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                  September 18, 2012 10:04 AM

                  The game never really grabbed me, and not just because of the trailer. I'm not even sure why exactly, I just didn't feel compelled to keep playing it. But whatever, I have too many games I do like to worry about this one.

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                September 18, 2012 8:57 PM

                You expected the the original game to be split beween the end playing backwards and the begining moving forwards?

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            September 18, 2012 9:51 AM

            Can you please link a few examples of CG trailers that accurately display gameplay?

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              September 18, 2012 9:52 AM

              I don't know what he was expecting. To play the game in reverse?

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                September 18, 2012 9:54 AM

                Ok, gameplay was a mistaken choice of word. The trailer gave the impression that the game would have a serious emotional tone and dramatic impact, when it in fact had neither.

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                  September 18, 2012 10:06 AM

                  Yeah. The issue isn't "gameplay doesn't look like a CG trailer". We all know how that works.

                  The complaint is that the original game's trailer suggesting a tone and theme totally missing from the final game.

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                    September 18, 2012 10:13 AM

                    this^^^^^

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                    September 18, 2012 10:49 AM

                    The tone of every CG game trailer is almost always overly dramatic or fishing for some emotional response.

                    For WoW Cataclysms, the trailer was a huge dragon fucking shit up.

                    In game I was a Goblin cruising around in a rocket car and crashing some goblin party and robbing banks.

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                      September 18, 2012 11:13 AM

                      True, but eventually you can go and fight that massive dragon. Much like the MoP trailer which features the racial animosity thing followed by goofy panda shit, which is likely to reflect the tone of the actual expansion.

                      Dead Island is an ARPG with a minimal story and built around beating up zombies with crazy loot drops. It carries none of the elements of its teaser trailer into the game itself.

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                        September 21, 2012 10:56 AM

                        The thing is that most of your playable character were made for the players. Emotional scenes happened to the NPC such as the young woman wanting her teddy bear or the crazy human who was swinging a machete at you. A lot of that brought emotion into play, but it was not a game where your decisions made a difference. It was never advertised as that, it showed an emotional scene off loss for normal people which you see through out the game. If you want something deeper then go play Walking Dead where your decisions do have an effect on other games.

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                      September 18, 2012 1:00 PM

                      but a huge dragon does actually fucks shit up in WoW.

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                September 18, 2012 2:14 PM

                I had to watch that trailer again, it's so good! I hadn't seen the E3 vid...No MP! Concentrating on SP FTW.

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              September 18, 2012 3:45 PM

              Deus Ex: Human Revolution's CG trailer was at least in the same ball park.

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        September 18, 2012 9:55 AM

        Seriously. Dead Island was a damn good game. Who builds his expectations for a game based on a CG trailer? Those complaining made the mistake to read too much into it anyway.

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      September 18, 2012 9:44 AM

      Well, at least I'm fairly sure techland is doing this one on purpose......

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      September 18, 2012 9:53 AM

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      September 18, 2012 10:03 AM

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        September 18, 2012 10:14 AM

        Noooope. Which is pretty silly why they'd be editoralizing this one..

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          September 18, 2012 10:20 AM

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            September 18, 2012 3:49 PM

            Well they could just post the trailer without comments and everyone would be like "WTF is this shit? Is Shack becoming Kotaku now?"

            It has at least inspired a discussion. All discussions are good, because it gives me something to do while at work.

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          September 18, 2012 10:20 AM

          Are you going to have frantic combat with pandas in the new WoW expansion? Yes. Was Dead Island's story an emotional tear-jerker instead of a zombie action RPG? No.

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            September 18, 2012 10:22 AM

            You really bought that game thinking it would be an emotional tear jerker?

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              September 18, 2012 11:25 AM

              I didn't. But the trailer portrayed it to be so.

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              September 18, 2012 12:08 PM

              i can guarantee some people bought it because they thought it would be a story driven survival horror game with zombies, instead of a generic ARPG with virtually 0 storyline or character interaction.

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            September 18, 2012 10:25 AM

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            September 18, 2012 10:35 AM

            I saw people being attacked by zombies and people attacking zombies, just as you saw frantic panda combat in the WoW cg trailer, doesn't change the fact that the panda trailer was wacky and made the game look a lot more interesting than the actual gameplay, WHICH IS THE POINT OF CG TRAILERS...goosh.

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              September 18, 2012 11:32 AM

              If you want to put it that way, the people in the Dead Island trailer weren't really attacking zombies but trying to weakly defend themselves from the living dead. In the game, you're a walking zombie death machine. In comparison, the two on one scenario portrayed in the WoW trailer is definitely plausible in game. The point is that the tone of the Dead Island trailer didn't match the tone of the game.

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          September 18, 2012 10:27 AM

          He got his panties in a bunch and is now upset for life, despite any other people that have enjoyed the game. Unfortunately, Shack, while a good site, has editorials has a lot of biased writers who can't write from a middle ground and share their own personal opinion. Instead, they proclaim it garbage because screw anyone else who may have enjoyed it and excited for the next game.

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            September 18, 2012 10:30 AM

            their editorials have a lot*

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            September 18, 2012 10:40 AM

            The Wii U news on the shack has been sort of ridiculous. I agree commentary should be kept to the comments.

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          September 18, 2012 10:34 AM

          I don't think there's really any editorializing in this. It is pre-rendered. It is sappy. And it is nothing like the game that it is "inspired" by. These are all bullet points. I don't say whether or not that's a good or bad thing--that's for you to decide.

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            September 18, 2012 10:36 AM

            you seriously can't see how your blurb comes off as editoralized and opinionated?

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            September 18, 2012 10:39 AM

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            September 18, 2012 10:40 AM

            You should have taken a moral stand and not posted it at all. You know, considering how immoral it is to trick the gaming public into buying something that has nothing to do with the advertising. Fight the good fight Mr. Yoon.

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              September 18, 2012 11:23 AM

              ...don't you mean mock it to the point that people take it off their buy list and move it to their gamefly rental list?

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            September 18, 2012 11:01 AM

            While I honestly don't care that much about whether or not you editorialized it or not...it's pretty editorialized.

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            September 18, 2012 2:58 PM

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              September 18, 2012 3:52 PM

              Yep, if his editorializing hadn't inspired this thread, I would never have seen the trailer.

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            September 18, 2012 3:54 PM

            Oh come the fuck on.

            supposedly "inspired" by

            The word "supposedly", and the quotes around inspired, are editorializing. You're implying that it might not even have been inspired by the game!

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            September 18, 2012 4:16 PM

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        September 18, 2012 10:19 AM

        Supposedly 'inspired' by.

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      September 18, 2012 10:48 AM

      I didn't see anything in the original Dead Island trailer that wasn't in the game. The trailer set a more emotional atmosphere, which may have been a bit misleading because the game was more action-oriented, but it did indeed show much stuff that was very prominent in the game: a beach resort, zombies and people using melee weapons, fighting for their life.

      I don't see anything wrong with this trailer either. It's essentially a very similar presentation of the setting.

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      September 18, 2012 10:49 AM

      Wow - Lots of ass pain from white knighting fanboys ITT.

      I was glad I only paid $10 for it on sale. Would've felt robbed for anything higher.

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      September 18, 2012 10:50 AM

      after watching the original trailer, i was not expecting what i got in the first game at all. i'm gonna assume this teaser will have nothing to do with the story and gameplay either.

      still ended up enjoying it though.

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      September 18, 2012 10:52 AM

      WHO DO YA VOODOO BITCH?!

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      September 18, 2012 10:56 AM

      Not nearly as bad as this

      http://www.shacknews.com/article/75452/final-fantasy-dimensions-to-cost-29-coming-august-31?id=28776663

      Why are people suddenly perking up about these spins? Before it was just me.

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      September 18, 2012 11:07 AM

      Come on! This is an awesome trailer. The Dead Island vibe isn't the pastel Borderlands easy-come-easy-go-happy-fun-day type. It's menacing, with a 'real world' setting, and both trailers set up the game's premise of a an island paradise vacation gone horribly wrong in a unique and emotionally affecting way

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      September 18, 2012 11:24 AM

      Holy shit my Jimmys just had the fuck rustled out of them. SOMEBODY THINK OF THE JIMMYS

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      September 18, 2012 11:25 AM

      Haven't watched this one yet but the first Dead Island CG trailer was so bad ass I didn't care. I still have the video file sitting on my desktop at home. It's basically a music video to describe the atmosphere of the game and it does a good job of doing that.

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        September 18, 2012 11:27 AM

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          September 18, 2012 12:13 PM

          I loved the trailer and loved the game, but hated the characters in the game and wished they were more like the characters in the CG video, but that didn't detract from the enjoyment I had with the game.

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            September 18, 2012 12:25 PM

            I would have to agree with you there.

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            September 18, 2012 12:28 PM

            The characters from the CG video were dead. They sort of lacked character actually.

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              September 18, 2012 12:39 PM

              lol true. I just hated how cardboard stereotyped and low browly written the playable characters were. they never felt like they were actually processing the horror and devestating situation they were in, rather it was a lot of 'yo bitches, imma get some cash'.

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                September 18, 2012 1:13 PM

                yes, the playables were pretty brotastic

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                September 18, 2012 3:15 PM

                WHO DO YOU VOODOO BITCH!?!

                I agree I disliked the character choices.

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            September 18, 2012 9:06 PM

            I didn't care for the characters either... (welll 1 of them I did like).

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      September 18, 2012 12:05 PM

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        September 18, 2012 3:54 PM

        WUB. WUBWUBWUBWUB. WUB. WWWWEEEERRRRRR

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        September 18, 2012 4:07 PM

        And it feels like I am just too close to love youuuuu.... WUB WUB WUB WOM WOM WOM

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        September 20, 2012 2:24 PM

        dupstep is so hot right now. dubstep

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      September 18, 2012 12:26 PM

      I liked these trailers, and the game.

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      September 18, 2012 3:18 PM

      I love those trailers. I would wager the aftermath of that scene is somewhere in Riptide, much like the aftermath of the original trailer was in the beginning of the original game. It's a nice touch.

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      September 18, 2012 3:57 PM

      Not really feeling it on this trailer. The music in the first one was way more emotional. The music in this new trailer sounds cheesy.

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      September 19, 2012 2:02 AM

      The overwhelming majority of games that have trailers may not reflect gameplay (which we forgive), but absolutely tie in with the theme(s) and tone.

      Besides the setting, Dead Island's trailer had absolutely nothing to do with the final product. The game came out ok in the end, but I do agree the trailer was quite misleading.

      Now that everyone knows what to expect with Riptide, it's a little more forgivable, I think.

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