New Dead Island DLC not in fact about a porn star

Video: The new DLC for zombie-FPS Dead Island is packed with guns, zombies and terrible Australian accents.

I'm olde enough to remember a time in Hollywood where any Australian character - especially in war movies - would end being played either by an Englishman or an American bunging on the most atrocious accent. They'd end up sounding like a Kiwi by way of South Africa, and with vowels that would wander more than your average gypsy.

Now, it seems, gaming has hit the equivalent epoch, if the new DLC for Dead Island is anything to go by.

This trailer dropped last week, and it kinda slipped by us, but as the DLC is available now, it's worth looking at. For one thing, the new story seems to have a lot more emotional heart to it, and be more firearms focused. It also does not in fact feature a porn star as the main character. Seriously, we can't be the only ones who thinks 'Ryder White' sounds more like someone who should be better known for their prodigious pants skills than being a Colonel in the Australian military.

But the real star of the trailer is his Gods-awful accent, which... shit, I don't know what it sounds like. Anyhoo, the DLC's out now, check the trailer, and let us know what it's like.