Dead Island: Difference between revisions

* [[Fetch Quest]]: Fairly common throughout the game. By far the most annoying ones are those that ask you to get something ''you already have on your person.'' For example, one guy in the church wants you to run halfway across a zombie-infested city to get him a gun... when you probably have half a dozen to spare.

* [[Fire-Forged Friends]]: As evidenced in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e7-fWVob00 launch trailer], the four heroes don't trust each other at first, but quickly realize they'll have to work together to survive.

* {{spoiler|[[Foregone Conclusion]]: The Ryder White DLC if you've already finished the main story.}}

* [[Foreshadowing]]: There are a few hints foreshadowing the fact that {{spoiler|1=The Voice is really Kevin/Charon impersonating Ryder White}}. {{spoiler|One of the Heroes mentions that The Voice could easily be a convict impersonating a military officer. The Voice is only ever shown in shadow, and never explicitly shown as Ryder White. The Voice claims to be with the BIDF when we are told early on the real Ryder is serving with the Australian Defence Force and at the very end of the game, Kevin is encountered prominently standing in front of the radio control booth that the Voice was using throughout the game.}}

* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: Even if you're going it alone in single-player mode, the cutscenes will still feature all four heroes together as if you've got a full co-op roster.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: {{spoiler|Jason Vorhees}} enjoys himself way too much. He knows what's going on, and loves every moment of it.

** {{spoiler|Kevin seems to be playing on the genre savviness of the main crew by the end, claiming that the Australians are planning on detonating a nuclear weapon to contain the outbreak (a classic zombie film cliche) which they believe without a second thought. The Ryder White DLC reveals that this was all a lie they fell for.}}

* [[Glass Cannon]] / [[Fragile Speedster]]: The "Infected" enemies. It's easy to kill them in one hit if you ready yourself as they're running at you but if you are otherwise occupied they can unleash a flurry of attacks that can take off half your health before you even know what's happening. Even worse, as you level up further the game seems to take a perverse pleasure in regularly sending the occasional wave of them at you, regardless of whether or not they could have possibly spotted you. And they almost always travel in groups of 2-4. Sometimes from different directions.

* [[Item Crafting]]: The weapons you craft make surviving much easier.

* [[It Gets Easier]]: According to the devs, when characters kill zombies, they will initially sound nervous and anxious but as their body count increases, they will start sounding more confident and spouting one liners.

** It's actually just that the lines are programmed to change as you go further from the starting point. If you head back to the original beach even after you've reached the city your character will start spouting the same lines they did at the beginning of the game.

* [[It Got Worse]]: As if a [[Zombie Apocalypse]] isn't bad enough, there's a ''typhoon'' incoming, too.

* [[Rule of Symbolism]]: Sam B is a [[One-Hit Wonder]] forced to sing his only successful single over and over again. Xian Mei and Purna were [[Reassigned to Antarctica]] and outright fired, respectively, due to the sexism of their police superiors. Logan is a former NFL quarterback whose career ended when he [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|killed a woman and injured his knee]] in a car crash during an illegal street race. All of their lives are at a ''dead end''.

* [[Sand in My Eyes]]: The [http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/02/23/dead-island-literal-trailer Literal Lyrics Trailer] invokes this, even when its all done in a [[First-Person Smartass|very humorous]], [[Unreliable Voiceover|silly way]].

* [[Save Game Limits]]: Not only does ''Dead Island'' use the [[Roguelike]] system of a single save file that gets regularly overwritten with every player action, it takes it one step further by preventing you from backing up your save file from the desktop. Attempt to do so, and the program ''destroys your save file''. That's pretty damn ruthless, Techland.

* [[Scenery Porn]] / [[Scenery Gorn]]: The resort island has some utterly beautiful spots (as befitting a vacation spot), but as the hurricane moves in and the corpses pile up, Paradise becomes Hell in short order.

** {{spoiler|Subverted in that Ryder White was virtually innocent up until the final boss encounter, at which point he killed Jin in anger after she screwed him over.}}

* [[Villain Episode]]: The Ryder White DLC

* [[Watching Troy Burn]]: Several locations where survivors are gathered get overrun by zombies after completing certain quests. It can be pretty scary when you see the survivors going about their business, and then when you return, they're all dead or zombified. The music also changes or goes silent, which adds to the creepiness.

* [[Welcome to Corneria]]: Unless they're a fairly important NPC get used to them spouting the same lines over and over until you complete their quest.