You also won’t pull open a world map that’s covered in fog and imagine all the possibilities of where your adventures might take you. You can go back and re-explore old areas, oftentimes discovering things that weren’t there before, but you won’t ever feel that overwhelming sense of icon fatigue that you often get from Ubisoft offerings. There are plenty of side quests to engage in - in fact, there are more side quests than main story quests - but these are trickled out over the course of the game. In Dead Island 2, the main story funnels you through its ten world pieces at its own pace instead of at yours.
I actually think a decent point of comparison would be something like Deathloop, which was broken into four explorable pieces, though in that game you had access to all four fairly early in the game. Later in the game, you will explore chunks of Hell-A that do feel a lot more open - Venice Beach feels particularly ripe for exploration - but even these chunks are fairly small.
This design style feels a little bit like Dark Souls, actually, with twisty paths where you’ll feel hopelessly lost until you open a shortcut gate and realize you’re just a few meters away from where you started. They feel more like mazes of interconnected hallways, though these hallways often wind back into areas you’ve already explored, with doors that can only be unlocked from one side. The earlier areas aren’t very open either. There is a loading screen between each area, and you won’t unlock fast-travel until you’ve made it through about half the game’s main story quests (you’ll have six of the game’s ten areas open by that point in the game). You won’t have access to all of them right away - instead, you’ll start in Bel-Air and radiate outward as the story progresses. Instead of having one massive world to explore, you’ll have ten smaller world chunks. But I’ve spent more than 60 hours with Dead Island 2 (developed by Dambuster Studios) at this point, and I can safely say that it isn’t that type of game. Maybe because I’ve spent so much time with Dying Light (developed by Techland, who also made the original Dead Island), which definitely counts as an open-world zombie game. I’m not really sure why I expected Dead Island 2 to be an open-world game.
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