Look, this author's probably the least funny person on the planet – but whether you're a budding comedian or not, you've got to know when to quit. Dead Island: Retro Rampage desperately doubles down on its dodgy "jokes", however, managing to wrap everything abhorrent about Internet humour into 90 seconds of ear-splittingly bad stand-up, presented by the lovechild of Angry Joe and Jack Black.
This trailer may very well be the worst one that we've seen all year – and rest assured, we've seen all of the Battleborn clips. For f**k's sake – remember when people were getting their panties in a twist over Dead Island's "emotional" deceased daughter trailer? What the hell has happened to this franchise? Who's running it into the ground? Why does this exist?
Want to know the worst part about the video? Someone on Deep Silver's PR team used the word "awesome" in the email subject line to describe it. We have a sneaking suspicion that said lackey is currently staring absent-mindedly into a half-empty bottle of absinthe. Obliteration is the only escape folks!
(Drink responsibly – even if you did endure the entirety of this godawful trailer.)
[source youtube.com]
Comments 24
OH LOOK HE'S GOT TO SAVE HIS CAT BECAUSE THAT'S SO FUNNY AND NOT A LAZY PREMISE IN THE SLIGHTEST.
3 games for one price that retro game looks like fun too
@j1965
Oh Sammy. You shush. You're plenty funny. And yes. It's a terrible trailer.
In the meantime, I am escaping into drink. Not because of this though. Because my Uncharted 4 day one patch is going to take another hour to install. 😓
@get2sammyb Oh Taylor. You... Stay exactly the same forever.
@RawShark Too late, she's got that awful hair that makes her look like she's doing Milla Jovovich cosplay now. Our Song-era TayTay will forever be missed.
@get2sammyb
I can't take you seriously Sammy!, your taste in games is about as good as this trailer........Considering your T Swift obsession, your taste in music is about the same......
Dead Island has never been good. It brings doom upon all.
Jack Black, c'mon now... that's the whole joke
I like the idea of a bonus bit game, but this? No thank you. Now a Tenacious D rampage game done well, that I could get into
wow really Taylor swift again.is she your favorite celebrity .she's suck man.
Tenacious D and Jack Black were never funny. This is worse.
When I saw that it was a preorder bonus, my mind was made up--I won't be preordering this set after all.
At least the side scroller won't be an endless list of glitchy fetch quests (its like someone set out to make my worst nightmare) but you do have to put up with this chump by the looks of things.
This reminds me so much of Slashy Souls, oh god...
Erghh look's and sound's awful.
Still haven't forgiven the franchise for that first trailer. I wept, I cried, I wet the bed (unrelated problem) but then I played it and the first game was not to the same quality of the trailer. I hate when that happens.
Loved the first Dead Island but hated Riptide but this just looks plain awful! I thought the idea with bonus pre order extras was to encourage people to buy it?
Think I'll pass on this one. Maybe I'll just spring for the Dying Light Enhanced Edition instead someday. So many games, so little time!
One minute and twenty nine seconds of cringe.
Coming soon to PS+.
As horrible as not jack black is the gameplay looked decent, Wonder if it has 2 player, or even 4 player...
It's like they want us to not buy it. Which is something I can do.
Maybe you should put this as an opinion piece instead of news. And using a taylor swift gif in the comments section? Are you f*cking 12?
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