Dead Island combines first-person action with a heavy focus on melee combat, character development and customisation of a vast array of weapons. All of these gameplay features are presented in a dark story inspired by classic zombie movies with a gritty and engrossing campaign that can be played with up to four players in co-op mode.

Set in an open world tropical island, hordes of different festering zombies await players around every corner while they embark on a variety of thrilling missions through the holiday resort. With firearms and ammunition being scarce the player must rely on utilising found items as weapons for self-defense and fight off zombie hordes in intense melee combat. A diverse range of items can be collected and will later serve to transform the player’s ordinary makeshift weapons into serious instruments of destruction.

A couple flying to the vacation of their dreams is torn apart by a violent plane crash. Take on a harrowing quest to find your lost wife. Enter into the dark world of a devastated tropical paradise now plunged into chaos. It’s a place where the word "dead" has an entirely new meaning. Face the nightmare and fight for survival. Explore the secrets hidden in the darkest regions of the island and fight your way through. Survival is your main goal!

Terror. Violence. Madness. Bedlam. A holiday paradise gone mad. A tropical island turns into total chaos after a mysterious zombie outbreak. Cut off from the rest of the world, the player’s only chance to survive is to fight to the death and find a way to escape from the island.

Pre-order/Special Edition:

This will include the game and in addition offer the “Bloodbath” Arena DLC. New challenges in four different arenas await players in this single and multiplayer gameplay DLC! It´s pure fight for survival when waves after waves of deadly zombie attack, one more gruesome than the next! In the Bloodbath DLC characters can loot experience points and items and bring them over to the campaign. To show off their skills in zombie fighting they can use the newly implemented Leaderboards. A new exclusive weapon, the brain wave bomb, tops this DLC package off.

The DLC package will have a worth of $/EUR 10 and will be available after launch of Dead Island.

In addition to the Bloodbath Arena DLC, the Dead Island Special Edition will sport an exclusive piece of cover art and the blueprint for a special weapon, called the "Ripper": A destructive combination of a baseball bat and a buzz saw that leaves attacking zombies battered and bleeding to death. Only players who pre-ordered this edition of the game will be able to craft this unique weapon and share it with friends.

The Dead Island Special Edition is now available as an automatic upgrade for early preorder customers at GameStop stores nationwide for a limited time, while supplies last.

In addition to satisfying even the most bloodthirsty action fan’s fantasy, Dead Island also features role-playing elements which allow the player to develop one of the game’s unique character classes according to their preferences, all the while learning new skills and fresh tactics during their journey through the perilous environments of the island. What’s more, anytime during a game up to four players can seamlessly join together and experience the intense combat and immersive story with cooperative gameplay.

With the all-new Chrome Engine 5 powering Dead Island, the game will use the latest installment of Techland’s acclaimed proprietary game engine, allowing the player to experience the tropical island paradise in graphical splendor with diverse environments like lush forests and detailed city environments.

Features :

• Ultra-realistic combat
  • Intense and amazingly realistic hand-to-hand combat based on dynamic character moves and camera angles
  • Realistic physical reactions of opponents to hits
  • Exceptionally faithful and detailed damage model, showing damaged skin, muscles and even bones
  • Innovative system of targeting and hitting the opponents gives you precise control and a realistic combat feel
• Advanced Artificial Life System
  • AL system allows you to take advantage of instinctive behaviors of groups and individual opponents
  • Living, breathing and dynamically changing ecosystem faced with the destructive influence of a spreading epidemic
  • Realistic and spontaneous NPC behavior
  • Through your actions, actively influence NPC reactions
• Non-linear gameplay
  • Explore a vast, open world of a tropical island, on foot or in vehicles
  • Freedom of choosing your allies and completing tasks that bring you closer to the finale
  • Player decisions influence the way in which the game progresses, making it a multi-threaded story
• Fully Interactive Environments
  • The ability to use all elements of the environment as weapons
  • A liquid, gas and electricity physics simulation system, which allows you to create your own unique ways of eliminating enemies

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