http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDURZ1NX07M
Escape Dead Island, which is both the game's title and obvious directive, is a third-person game that favors sneaking over wild extermination of the undead, and it tells a different kind of story to match the slower pace.
Deep Silver is calling Escape Dead Island a "survival mystery," and Cliff's bouts of delusion "story loops." Though zombies and their demise at the end of a shovel is still a prime factor in the game, as far as I can tell, developer Fatshark is placing far more emphasis on the unhinged story and the unusual, dream-like scenarios that come from it.
Escape Dead Island seems different enough from the regular franchise to impart some caution on the publisher's side: It's being released this Fall only on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC for $40.