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Alan returns to the Mount Red Tooth Observatory, As before this place is familiar; there are set tasks that he must do in order to rewrite the story and obtain more information from the satellite print-out. However, parts of this job are already accomplished, and the placement of items around…

Our hero roams the plains of Dantooine, exploring and searching for the tainted Jedi grove that he must cleanse as his final test in order to become a Jedi Padawan. There are rogue Mandalorians roaming the plains, making life difficult to the locals and we have several run-ins. Our group…

Here is the second montage of “highlights and lowlights” from our co-op play of Dead Island Riptide. We complain some, we laugh some, the usual. Dead Island Riptide has many of the issues that the first game had, basically all of them in fact. However, it is still a fun…

Alan finds himself back at the beginning again. It’s a setback in his quest to put everything in order and defeat Mr. Scratch. He’s got to go through the process of destroying the evil source at the oil derelict again. Emma is alive again, and she is vaguely aware of…

We head to Dantooine and speak with the Jedi Council. Another shared dream shows there is definitely a connection with Bastila. The Council, somewhat reluctantly admits you as a student. Your learning rate and skills are phenomenal. You pass all of your initial tests easily, choosing your Jedi path. Your…

Here are some highlights and lowlights of Dead Island Riptide from the early parts of the game after the single-play prologue. We discuss some of the issues of the game as we move forward. Regardless of these there are some fun and funny moments to be had in the game,…

Alan moves on to the the drive-in theater, where a young woman prepares for a curated film festival late at night. But Mr. Scratch has already been by and has infected her in some way. To help her, Alan has to turn on the generators so he can get some…

We enter Daviik’s compound under the guise of joining “The Exchange”, his mercenary network. We quickly begin taking out the compound’s defenses in search of the security system codes that hold the Ebon Hawk in place. As we make our way towards the hanger with the codes found on a…

Dead Island Riptide begins as a single-player segment. The prologue gives us a little reminded of our previous adventure. Our team is captured by military-types led by a man who wants to experiment on us, as we are immune. Imprisoned and experimented on in the belly of a warship, Mei…

The nameless hero continues to explore the mysterious island where he and another stowaway by the name of Sara have washed ashore. She stays behind at an abandoned cottage and he continues on, discovering a shield and a tomb along the way. Finding a home and a split in the…

With the help of the newly acquired T3-M4 droid Bastila and our man make their way inside the Sith base. Their goal is to obtain departure codes which will allow them to get past the Sith’s auto-targeting lasers. Meeting Canderous, after defeating a Sith Governor, furthers the plan. You will…

Alan heads to the Mount Redtooth Observatory looking for answers. There he finds a scientist and a telescope looking to the skies for an answer. He’ll have to help repair the telescope before they can look for those answers though. What he finds is more madness from Mr. Scratch and…