Dead Island Riptide: Zombie Bait Edition (Xbox 360)

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Dead Island 2 was the final announcement of Gamescom Opening Night Live, and it made a solid first impression with its cinematic and gameplay reveal that highlighted a zombified Los Angeles. He went on to say that it didn't do much to improve itself from its predecessor in terms of overall performance. We deeply apologize for any offense caused by the Dead Island Riptide Zombie Bait Edition, the collector's edition announced for Europe and Australia," reads the tweet. The gaming review sites who broke this story (or, more truthfully: got the PR statement / saw that someone else had posted it, re-wrote the copy and posted up the images on their own site) were zombies, lured by the obvious controversy of a game selling a booby-and-bloody statue of a woman’s corpse*. I bought the zombie Bait Edition for 36 pounds and I do not regret it because it was reasonably cheap.

A new trailer released in March 2013 titled "They Thought Wrong" showed new gameplay, characters, and enemies.Despite a poor critical response Dead Island was a big hit for Deep Silver in 2011 and it seems to have rushed out Riptide as quickly as possible to take advantage of that. The Dead Island Riptide: Rigor Mortis Edition is a bundle of goodies voted in by the fan community back in the fall. Dead Island Riptide is one of the most anticipated releases of the year and is set to build on the original’s reputation for OTT action, dark humour and brutal zombie bashing,” Deep Silver’s sales and marketing director Paul Nicholls stated. In January 2013, Deep Silver announced that Dead Island: Riptide would be available in a "Zombie Bait Edition", which would include a statuette of the bloodily dismembered torso of a bikini-clad woman.

Update: Dead Island Riptide publisher Deep Silver has taken to Twitter to apologise for its controversial bloodied, buxom bust collectible. The Dead Island Zombie Bait Edition includes a 31 cm high, hand painted resin statue of island's zombies a "grotesque take on an iconic Roman marble torso sculpture," according to the press release from publisher Deep Silver. Within hours of the announcement, Deep Silver's UK branch issued a statement that they "apologize for any offense caused" and that they "sincerely regret this choice", reiterating "how deeply sorry we are, and that we are committed to making sure this will never happen again".

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