The closed beta for Dead Island: Epidemic has gone live and can be played “24/7,” on the off chance you signed up for it at the beginning of the month and haven’t since lost interest.
In this multiplayer online battle arena game, three teams of four survivors attempt to gather supplies and take control points while zombies do their best to make these tasks challenging. I missed hearing that players will have direct control over their character (WASD + mouse), which had me slightly more open-minded about Epidemic until I saw a few videos on YouTube. I was hoping for faster, more arcade-like gameplay, not this.
Do I have much hope for the game? Do any of us? Not particularly. But there’s still a part of my brain that is perhaps foolishly curious to see how a Dead Island MOBA will turn out.
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | Intel Celeron E1500 Dual-Core 2.2GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4800+ | Intel Core 2 Duo E7600 3.06GHz / AMD Athlon II X2 270 |
| VRAM | 256 MB | 1 GB |
| RAM | 2 GB | 4 GB |
| OS | Win Xp 32 | Win 7 64 |
| Graphics Card | nVidia GeForce GT 330 / AMD Radeon HD 3600 Series | nVidia GeForce GTS 250 / AMD Radeon HD 6670 |
| Direct X | DX 9 | DX 10 |
| HDD Space | 6 GB | 4 GB |
| Game Analysis | Publisher Deep Silver have announced yet another Dead Island game. The third game in the franchise will be an only arena game; throwing three teams into an arena to compete with eachother with one goal - surviving the zombie onslaught.This MOBA game (called ZOMBA by Deep Silver; Zombie Online Multiplayer Battle Arena) did not yet recieve a release-date, and Deep Silver also didn't mention the developer team behind this project yet. The previous Dead Island games were developed by Techland.Zombie Online Multiplayer Battle Arena will be free-to-play. | |
| High FPS | 200+ FPS ( GTX 1060 ) | |
| Optimization Score | 8 | |
