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Dead Island: Riptide is an action role-playing survival horror video game and stand-alone expansion to Dead Island developed by Techland and published by Deep Silver , released in April 2013 for Microsoft Windows , PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 . Riptide serves as a continuation of the story to 2011's Dead Island, with the original four survivors, plus a new survivor, arriving on another island in the Banoi archipelago, which has also been overrun by zombies. Riptide takes place immediately after the ending of Dead Island, with the four immune survivors: ex- American football player Logan Carter, rapper Sam B, undercover Chinese spy Xian Mei, and ex-police officer Purna. Along with international terrorist Charon and native Yerema, asymptomatic patient zero of the Banoi outbreak, the survivors land on a military ship after escaping from the prison island. They are immediately taken into custody by the Australian Defence Force Colonel Sam Hardy and Frank Serpo, a civilian...

Dead Island is a 2011 survival horror action role-playing video game developed by Polish developer Techland and published by German studio Deep Silver for Microsoft Windows , Linux , OS X , PlayStation 3 , and Xbox 360 . Centered on the challenge of surviving a zombie-infested open world with a major emphasis on melee combat , the plot focuses on four playable survivors trying to survive and escape off the fictional island of Banoi. Dead Island features an apparent open world roaming, divided by relatively large areas, and played from a first-person perspective. Most of the gameplay is built around combat (mainly melee weapons) and completing quests . Dead Island is an action role-playing game and uses experience-based gameplay . The player earns XP by completing tasks and killing enemies. Upon levelling up, the player gains health and stamina, and can invest one skill point into a skill tree and level up one of their skills. Combat is carried out through either phy...