{"id":4373,"date":"2011-03-25T06:05:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T13:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=4373"},"modified":"2011-03-25T06:06:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T13:06:49","slug":"how-many-zombies-does-dead-island-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/03\/25\/how-many-zombies-does-dead-island-have\/","title":{"rendered":"How many zombies are on Dead Island?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"4373\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dead_Island_zombie_shortage.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dead_Island_zombie_shortage.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Dead_Island_zombie_shortage\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dead_Island_zombie_shortage.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dead_Island_zombie_shortage-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The above screenshot from Dead Island looks great when it comes to rendering a wide-open Caribbean paradise with an incredibly long viewing distance.  But at what price?  Count the zombies in that screenshot.  Go ahead, I&#8217;ll wait.  <\/p>\n<p>Oh, you&#8217;re done already.  That didn&#8217;t take very long, did it?<\/p>\n<p>The Chrome engine used in Dead Island can certainly do terrain (see the ATV racing game Nail&#8217;d), but I&#8217;m guessing hordes of zombies aren&#8217;t on the menu.  And with a view distance like that, wouldn&#8217;t you be able to see the zombies in the distance, even if they were in manageable packets of five or six at a time?  Or will this be like an MMO, where creatures fade into the middle distance as  you get closer?  I don&#8217;t mean to be too hard on Dead Island.  But given that the problem was solved so beautifully in the Dead Rising games, and given that shambling hordes are a core value of zombie mythology, I wonder if a year from now we&#8217;ll remember Dead Island as a trailer instead of a game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How many zombies are on Dead Island?  - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/03\/25\/how-many-zombies-does-dead-island-have\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How many zombies are on Dead Island? 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