A tie-in short film 'No Retreat' was also released. Techland has also trademarked the title Dead World. did a sponsored movie/miniseries entitled Dead Island: Origins to advertise for the game on their website.Ī single-player DLC campaign was released in February of 2012 starring Ryder White, and it sheds an entirely new light on the events of the main game.Ī sequel, Dead Island: Riptide, was released in April 2013. This despite the acknowledgement from Techland stating that trailer would not be indicative of actual tone or gameplay. From the very second of its release that trailer became a viral phenomenon, Dead Island went from a presumed-dead zombie game to the talk of the entire gaming world, even getting the attention of the non-gaming press in a way that few smaller games ever do. Nothing was heard from the developers on the subject for years, until the release of a new trailer in early 2011, and. The game was first announced way back in 2007, with a teaser debuting at GC 2007 and promising a release date the following year. This is reflected in the game's physics system, which places emphasis on detailed gore, including limbs that may be broken or chopped off and heavy damage that may gib.

Melee combat is the name of the game since you can't really expect to find that many guns in a luxurious beach resort, you have to make do with the assortment of close-range weapons that you have around you. For reasons unknown (a mutated strain of Kuru is hinted), the dead have risen from the grave to consume the living, and the surviving tourists, staff and locals are fighting for survival.

It is set at the Royal Palms Resort on Banoi, a ( fictional) tropical island off the coast of Papua New Guinea. Don't you hate it when that happens?ĭead Island is a Wide-Open Sandbox first-person survival horror game by Techland, makers of the Call of Juarez series, with action RPG elements (such as skill trees, random weapon drops, and heavy emphasis on 4-player co-op gameplay) very reminescent of Diablo or Borderlands. So you're on vacation, trying to get away from your hectic life back home and have some fun time with your family, when all of a sudden zombies show up.

The guy swinging from the tree got off lucky.

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