I can't attest to the quality of the gameplay but watching the introduction to
Dead Island 2 is making my brain melt with how stupid it looks.
And by 'It' I'm referring to the playable characters.
I get it takes place in California which is basically a degenerate wonderland already but out of the six characters, only one and a half of them seems to be the least bit remotely relatable in a normal sense of the word. The rest are a pageantry of the transmundane.
Maybe the gameplay is amazing but I just recall the first
Dead Island trailer was amazing with the emotional resonance it had with the family being attacked in the hotel room and had some pretty interesting game moments and plot beats. This looks like it somehow got infested with all of the over stylish and garish nonsense and visual noise and bad, excessive humor that populates lots of popular media now.
Though the gore and physics look nice.