
Reports of Banoi being nuked were used by a character trying to back up his claim that the next island (Palanai) was also going to be nuked, a claim he later confirmed to be a lie. While White was never planning such an action, his superiors reportedly decided to in the sequel when it was clear Banoi was lost. Ryder White when he claims that White was going to nuke Banoi to contain the outbreak. Charon gets the survivors to side with him over Col. Dying Light was the sequel Techland wanted to make, despite the change in names.ĭead Island Retro Revenge was released on as a spin-off title and is a 2D Sidescrolling Runner in the vein of Canabalt starring a guy named Max (presumably the looter in the Dead Island 2 trailer) fighting through hordes of zombies to get his cat back.ĭead Island: Survivors was released on Jwith Tower Defense gameplay and a more cartoony aesthetic. Escape Dead Island is a third-person action-adventure game serving as a side quest where you work with Xian Mei to uncover the truth, and promises a beta copy of the second game. The trailer for the next sequel Dead Island 2 premiered at E3 2014. It was closed in October 2015 due to the lack of interest combined with very low playerbase. On August 7th, 2013, Deep Silver announced Dead Island: Epidemic, a MOBA with heavy emphasis on action and killing AI-controlled zombies. A tie-in short film "No Retreat" was also released. Techland has also trademarked the title Dead World. 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.Ī sequel, Dead Island: Riptide, was released in April 2013. 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.
