Dead Island: Riptide
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| Developer(s) | Techland |
| Publisher(s) | Deep Silver |
| Distributor(s) | |
| Director(s) | Paweł Marchewka |
| Producer(s) | Jacek Brzeziński Marek Soból |
| Designer(s) | Jacek Brzeziński |
| Programmer(s) | Krzysztof Sałek Tomasz Soból |
| Artist(s) | Krzysztof Kwiatek Łukasz Skurczyński |
| Composer(s) | Pawel Blaszczak |
| Series | Dead Island |
| Engine | Chrome Engine 5 |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 |
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| Genre(s) | Action role-playing, survival horror |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | (PS3) 61.44% (PC) 60.91% (X360) 57.58% |
| Metacritic | (PS3) 62/100 (PC) 61/100 (X360) 57/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Edge | 3/10 |
| Eurogamer | 6/10 |
| Game Informer | 8/10 |
| GameSpot | 4/10 |
| GamesRadar |   |
| GameTrailers | 7.5/10 |
| Giant Bomb | |
| IGN | 7.2/10 |
| Joystiq | |
| PC Gamer (US) | 45/100 |
| Polygon | 5.5/10 |
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.
Dead Island: Riptide received a mixed reception from critics, who cited that the game did not fix any of its predecessor's problems, nor add anything new to the gameplay. A third title and first official sequel for the series, Dead Island 2, was revealed at E3 2014. It was set for a 2016 release. Along with the first game, Riptide was released for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Windows, and SteamOS under the title Dead Island: Definitive Edition.
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 VIP. Yerema and Charon are taken away separately; Yerema bites one of the ADF soldiers as she is taken away. In the ship's brig, the remaining four meet another immune survivor, ADF Sergeant John Morgan, who claims he was part of a humanitarian effort on a nearby island until Serpo showed up and halted the mission.
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