A brand new video of Useless Island 2 (opens in new tab) reveals off about quarter-hour of gameplay, highlighting the completely over-the-top gorefest (opens in new tab) that’s its ranged and melee fight. It is filled with campy-to-annoying dialogue and low-cost laughs, however they’re nonetheless efficient. Trustworthy to God greater than something it jogs my memory of the completely absurd tone of recent American Skilled Wrestling.
The trailer follows “slayer” character Dani by way of an upscale LA neighborhood as she bashes, stabs, shoots, and in any other case splatters zombies whereas cracking a bunch of tacky and/or annoying quips. (Seems like one thing else we noticed lately (opens in new tab).) Once more, although, the method to atmospheric violence, outrageous combating, and campy dialogue greater than something jogs my memory of absolutely the silliness that’s wrestling.
It is a respectable promise of selection, because the gameplay reveal guarantees “dozens” of various zombie varieties that are finest handled utilizing totally different weapons and abilities. It additionally reveals off the skills of the protagonist “slayers,” who’re seemingly resistant to the zombie plague however have had their DNA mutated by it in any case. That lets Dani enter “fury mode” and develop claws and power that may toss zombies throughout the room.
There’s extra than simply splattering proven off, because the trailer dives into programs just like the compulsory crafting of bizarre weapons: Katana with a flaming propane nozzle, electrified fist claws, and so forth. There are additionally what developer Dambuster calls “curveballs,” bizarre limited-use powers like meatbait, a “sack of blood and guts to attract zombies away from you.”
Naturally a crafting system implies that you’ll spend much more time gathering rubbish than the 5 seconds on this trailer that the protagonist spends choosing up garishly highlighted wire, lightbulbs, and random chemical substances in a brush closet.
Additionally on show are the talent playing cards (opens in new tab) which are changing the expertise tree from Useless Islands of yore. These allow you to customise your character with powers and stunts like fashionable mid-air full-body dropkicks (wrestling!) and slamming floor stomps to journey up close by enemies (additionally wrestling!).
Close to the trailer’s finish there’s additionally a collection exhibiting off Apex Zombies, that are “hyper-mutated” zombies with distinctive behaviors. Examples included a spike-covered punk monster with spike arms, a giant burned-up man sporting chains, the compulsory fats vomiting monster, and—maybe essentially the most professional wrestling of all—an enormous bridezilla monster close to the top. (Which is the half most value watching as a result of I’m not joking they 100% undoubtedly used their elaborate zombie-gooping explosion physics on a cake.)
We’ll see if the campy tone can maintain Useless Island 2 when it releases on April 21, 2023 (opens in new tab). And sure, for the file, that is one final launch date change for a sport that spent 9 years in growth hell (opens in new tab).