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With a delay of almost two months of the date originally announced in late September, Bloodbath Arena is now available on Steam, Xbox Live and PlayStation Network for the delight of many fans of Dead Island . This first successful zombie-game DLC Techland weblog is for sale at a price of 9.99 euros not really very advantageous, while those who purchased the Special Edition of Dead Island you can download it for free from yesterday. Our proof is based on the PC version that has given so much trouble initially with the main game, so as to force the Polish team to release patches to fix several bugs, fix various problems (mostly with checks and bailouts) and improve the overall performance of game.

The situation is still not the best (still waiting for a patch is really "final"), but at least Bloodbath Arena is now available even if not accompanied by any explanation of how to access it. Once you download the DLC from Steam, we started Dead Island and a written Bloodbath Arena has warned us that it was successfully unlocked, the problem is that you do not understand quite how to start playing and if we only had access to DLC via one of maps for moving quickly spread on the island. The Bloodbath Arena can access it at any time be the main campaign of Dead Island and after a short intro movie (actually rather drab and dowdy) we are in a big bunker, where some of the survivors held at bay thousands zombie locked in four major arenas.

Before starting the actual game we can buy and repair weapons or change thanks to the special work tables, and our character in Dead Island may also have access to arenas with all the inventory in its possession and not to be killed after a few minutes recommend the use of an alter ego with a little experience, preferably from the fifth level onwards. The four arenas, as well as diversified by type of location (a bunker, some caves, external night), with different levels of difficulty, but even the simplest, however, must address at the outset zombie walkers level 3-4 and you do not is certainly a walk.

The operation of the DLC is the classic one with constant waves of enemies (thirty per arena) and a truce for a few seconds between one and the other (but we can very well wanting to skip the wait and start immediately). Of course, each horde is more challenging than the previous number and strength of enemies, to levels very paroxysmal with dozens of zombies scattered around the arena that prevent us almost to move (and in some cases the frame rate suffers a lot ). Although it is advisable to play with an arsenal already good, enemies killed, however, release a fair amount of money and weapons, as well as XP to increase the level of experience and make it our alter egos even stronger in the main game. Unfortunately, the delay seen by Techland, in the almost three months have elapsed from the Dead Island many (if not most) will have already completed the game and then enhance the usefulness of their character was not a little weakened, although nothing prevents you from starting all over again with a new character and make faster the bones in these arenas.

Bloodbath Arena's main attraction lies mainly in climbing the charts online, in the release of ten new achievements (for a total of 250 points) and co-op online with up to four players, that in situations so confused and adrenaline works much better that individual. Unfortunately at the time of writing the lobby of the game is almost always empty and we are now able to play for a few waves with only a partner at our side, but the DLC is just out, and we therefore expect a rapid population server (things will stay certainly better than going on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3). At the end Bloodbath Arena work and fun (and after all it is hard to go wrong with a classic Horde mode), but the required ten euros worth the money? Yes and no. On the one hand the game mechanics are solid and overall longevity is average, but at this price we expected something more in-game content, especially in terms of enemies, weapons (in practice we have counted only one new) , arenas, and (why not) even characters. With a fifth survived to choose the required 9.99 euros would certainly be a less bitter taste.