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Saves A checkpoint-only save system is kind of a stupid idea for an RPG, but yeah, that's what we're working with here.

People can seamlessly drop in and out of your game, if you allow it. Multiplayer This is a four-player co-op game that works over Steam, using its simple friends list and invite and join system. On a GeForce GTX 570 and Core-i7, I get well over 120fps with settings maxed at 1920x1080 resolution.

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PerformanceLike most cross-platform games with no-frills ports, Dead Island Riptide isn't likely to strain your graphics card if your PC has seen any upgrade love in the past few years.

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In-game, there's a radial weapon-select inventory that's obviously built for consoles, and the main inventory screen takes some getting used to in order to figure out how to swap stuff into a given slot, but at least it all responds well to being clicked. MenusEverything works well enough in the main menu screens вЂ“ nothing requires any keyboard navigation to get around. There's also a Facebook option that can auto-post your events to your wall, if you're into that sort of thing and don't mind if your friends hate you. If you want to hold a spot for a friend or two, you can adjust the number of public and private slots available, as well as making sure you only join games with Valve's anti-cheating security (VAC) enabled. There's an option to have it alert you if people are playing Riptide on your LAN, too. In the Online menu you can switch your game between Single-player and Cooperative modes (depending on whether you want people to be able to join your game) and set whether your game is visible for randoms to join, or only on your LAN. Misc SettingsBack on that Game menu, there are toggles for hiding or showing enemy health, damage done, auto-playing audio recordings you pick up, an enhanced navigation option, in-game hints, and forcing the quest target display. That includes a Southpaw config, Y-axis inversion, sensitivity settings, and rumble toggle. You can, of course, swap to Xbox 360 gamepad mode. Though you can't assign an alternate set of keybindings, there's no key on the board (except PrtScn and Windows) or button on the mouse that won't map to a command. In the Key Bindings submenu, everything is as it should be. On the main screen there's a standard sensitivity slider and Y-axis inversion toggle. (Your co-op partners' speech can be disabled under the Online menu.) Control Settings Here, Dead Island does fairly well. There's also a toggle for subtitles here. The very simple sliders are at the top of the Game menu, and simply control music, speech, and sound effect volume. Apparently sound isn't even cool enough to deserve its own menu. Audio Settings It's always disappointing to see a zombie game that doesn't support 5.1 or 7.1 sound, so color me disappointed by Riptide's audio settings. At least there's no framerate cap in effect вЂ“ Riptide will run as fast as your PC can handle. In short, this is just a couple of steps up from the bare minimum. (You may be able to force-enable that in your graphics card control panel.) There are no advanced lighting settings, no model detail settings (other than for the foliage) and naturally, no FoV slider. YES NOWhat's missing here? There's zero anti-aliasing options, resulting in some serious jagginess. It supports both 16:9 and 16:10 resolution options. But hey, if I could only have one, I'd go borderless every time. There's a v-sync option and the ability to run in a window, which only works in a borderless mode. Shadows and Shadow Map Size only have two options (High or Normal and 512 or 1024, respectively). There are high, medium, and low options for Texture Quality, Foliage Quality, and FX quality. Graphics Settings Techland hasn't gone above and beyond with this stuff.

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It'll work in offline mode for single-player.

System RequirementsCPU: Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz RAM: 1GB (4GB recommended) Hard disk space: 7GB Videocard: Radeon HD 2600XT/GeForce 8600GT (Radeon HD 3870/GeForce 9600GT recommended) DRMThis is a Steamworks game, so you'll need Steam installed and running to play.

The IGN review calls it out for failing to make an effort to improve on its 2011 predecessor, so going into this our expectations weren't terribly high. Now that we know how good Dead Island Riptide is, it's time to take a closer look at the options and features available in the PC version.

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