Dead Island is an Action-Survival game for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC, developed by Techland and published by Deep Silver in North America, Spike in Europe and by Zoo Corporation in Japan.
The game was released on all systems in September 6th 2011 in North America, September 9th 2011 for Europe (except Germany, where it's banned due to violence) and October 20th 2011 for Japan. Since its release the game has had two major DLC add-ons - Dead Island: Bloodbath Arena and Ryder White's Campaign - and a direct sequel, Dead Island Riptide, has been anounced for 2013.
The game takes place on the island of Banoi at a resort hotel, after a crazy night of partying the four heros of the game awake to a the intercom system telling them to evacuate. Upon exiting they find out that most of the island's population has been infected and turned into zombies, our four heros will have survive and find a way to escape this zombie filled paradise or die trying.
