Gave Dead Island another shot after the first time I tried playing it I quit in frustration after about an hour or so. I'm now up to level 25 with about 80% of the main story finished, but now I'm stuck at a place where I go with this old tribe leader and we're attacked by five or so zombies including a "thug" zombie. I've restarted that part about twenty times and it always ends one of three ways; he's killed by the zombies before I can take them out, I'm killed by the zombies and have to wait to respawn during which time he's then killed without me, or he gets in the way while I'm slashing like crazy and I kill him by accident myself. 
I'm glad I tried the game again, I really got into it after figuring out the game play and the territory, but it is VERY frustrating at times. I'm reminded of being back in my 20s, when I used to play Mortal Kombat with my roommate and we'd get so frustrated at the game we'd literally open up our front door and throw our controllers at the tree in the front yard. Good thing there isn't one in the yard where I live now...