Dead Island 2: A Review

Dead Island 2 was revealed in 2014 with a very good trailer of somebody running in Santa Monica and then slowly being turned into a zombie. It's notably not the sequel to Dying Light or Dying Light 2, which kind of came and eight dead islands lunch in terms of cultural prominence for a while. Also shouldn't be confused with Dead Island Riptide, which was a sequel. Or escape from Dead Island. Did anybody play that one? I always associate you with this game.

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Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson, Jacob Geller, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, and Leo Vader defend the zombie-slaying fun to be head in Dead Island 2, talk about the challenges of an RTS on console with Minecraft Legends, and talk about the promising gameplay of Disney Speedstorm. Then Sarah Podzorski joins the show as we check in on the horror-themed fishing game Dredge, the biggest reveals from Nintendo Indie World, and SEGA's April Fool's Day game that's surprisingly good called The Murder of Sonic The Hedgehog. Then we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of the week! You can win a prize and help make the show better by supporting us on Patreon and leaving a question! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax

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00:00:00 - Intro

00:03:55 - Dead Island 2

00:23:52 - Minecraft Legends

00:29:37 - Disney Speedstorm

00:38:12 - Dredge

00:47:00 - Nintendo Indie World reveals