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Jigsaw Flesh

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There's nothing actually gory or even particularly illustrative about this tech video for upcoming zombies-on-the-beach game Dead Island, but it's nevertheless... suggestive. It's always struck me as odd that so few games have chosen to go down the hyper-gore dismemberment route of Soldier Of Fortune, but perhaps Dead Island will allow us to bash the faces off zombies in a manner appropriate to they pulpy rotten-flesh consistency. It'll be like a Pinata, only with glands instead of candy...

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Jim Rossignol: Jim was one of the four co-founders of Rock Paper Shotgun, before he left us to go make video games.
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