Dead Island, Nice Survival game! :3

DI2

Dead Island Epidemic.
An all time classic.

Do you like mindless RPGs that allow you to slay countless zombies (usually with melee weapons)? Or do you prefer damn good shooters with engaging stories that might be a bit outdated in terms of mechanics? If it matters, said shooter is considered one of the greatest games of all time.

Edit: I sold Half-Life 2 short in this post, but I don't have the time to describe exactly how great that game is, but basically, this is the difference between: Are you looking for something fun just to pass the time, or are you looking for an experience that for years you'll look back on fondly?

Please do not kill zombies :'(

Go with Half-Life 2, it is far better on the environment.

1. why is this not a poll :(
2. another vote for HL2

   3. HL3 CONFIRMED

Half Life 2

Dead Island unless you want join the HL3: group of mourning

HL1, Opposing Forces and Blue Shift. If you have played those then get HL2, then the episodes.

Dead Island is good, but Dying Light is superior in every way so just pick that one up when it goes on sale.

Hmmm, I have Dead Island already. I don't have Half Life 2 but my hubby enjoyed it a lot. As far as zombies go, I still prefer Left 4 Dead 1 & 2.

Half-Life 2 is a better game.

Dead-life 2 or Half Island.

Dead Island at this point is not really worth it, especially if you dont have friends to play coop with

How is this a hard choice?
HALF-LIFE 2 all the way.

Half-Life 2, because Valve/Gaben get a bigger cut of your money so they can eat more junk food. And it's a better game.

If you haven't finished yet Half Life 2 is the best option for sure. It was one of the first games I got on Steam and had a really good time with it.

Really????!!!!!!!! It's not even a contest. Half Life 2 is one of the best FPS games in HISTORY. In fact, it was the very best until the second FPS revolution of 2007 when S.T.A.L.K.E.R and Bioshock came out. They have both since surpassed it because of their superior graphics atmosphere, story, enemy variety and much superior AI, better gun-play and especially story and storytelling. But Half Life 2 still remains the best FPS game-play-wise, because it features the best environment and physics related combat (even better than something like Bulletstorm where you throw people into giant cacti by kicking them in the face) and because of some of the best puzzles you'll see outside an adventure or puzzle game, possibly surpassed in that area only by the original PoP trilogy. Not to mention genius designed levels such as the excellent zombie infested town of Ravenholm, easily worth more than everything Dead Island has to offer.

It only suffers in the enemy department: not particularly varied (especially compared to Doom 3, for example) and with a less than ideal AI (downright dreadful compared to The Replica troops from F.E.A.R). But this was 2004, you can't expect everything to be peachy and smelling like roses. Not even Bioshock is perfect and that really is the best FPS of all time.

How is it possible there are people out there who haven't played Half Life 2 yet?

I would say Half Life 2 over Dead Island any day. You should have made this a poll.

Half Life 2. Always.

story and gameplay = HL2
mindless zombie slaughter = DI

How can you even ask this question? Of course one of the best FPSs in gaming history- Half-Life 2. (I recommend Portal 2, but you asked- HL2 or DI :) )

The answer is so easy: Half-Life 2 is a must-have masterpiece.