In Dead Island 2, Alexa Game Control has four main uses: setting waypoints, taunting enemies, triggering emotes, and switching weapons. It mainly provides quick shortcuts to save you a button press or two in the middle of playing. Reading its tutorials and lists of commands, the limits of Alexa Game Control became clear. After this, I hopped to a save I had placed later in the game and opened its tutorial menu to see what Alexa Game Control could really do. At first, I tried to see if voice commands would work for basic things like walking, jumping, and dodging, to no avail. Not having to say “Hey, Alexa” also means it implemented itself into the game smoothly.
When I spoke, this lit up with blue and teal colors, like the top ring on an Alexa device, and text confirming whether it could do the action or not would appear.
It has a dedicated tab in the Options Menu where players can choose to enable or disable it, choose whether they want it to work automatically or with push to talk, set the voice capture threshold, and decide which microphone they wish to use.Īfter enabling Alexa Game Control, I immediately noticed a ring at the bottom-left corner of the screen. I was curious to see just how deep this went, but after some hands-on time, this first implementation of it proved to be little more than a novelty.ĭead Island 2 players can toggle Alexa Game Control on when they first show up in Bel-Air after the game’s opening. By connecting one’s Amazon account to the game, players can use the voice-recognition capabilities of Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa to perform in-game actions like taunting zombies or equipping their best weapons. When Dambuster Studios and Deep Silver’s Dead Island 2 finally launches on April 21, it will be the first game to support Alexa Game Control. That’s why I jumped at the opportunity to try Alexa Game Control during my recent hands-on preview experience with Dead Island 2.
Whether it’s a computing innovation like cloud gaming or new controller features like the DualSense’s Haptic Feedback and Adaptive Triggers, I love testing those things out. I’ve always found myself interested in new technologies that could possibly enhance how we play or experience games.
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