"We hang together, or we fucked." Truer words have never been spoken, in or out of a co-op trailer for Dead Island.

Whenever you see a ragtag group of survivors banding together to try and survive a zombie apocalypse, comparisons to Valve's Left 4 Dead series are inevitable. So I won't make any. You folks will get around to it, I'm sure.

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