Dead Island: Riptide

***Dead Island: Riptide*** is an action role-playing game developed by Techland and published by Deep Silver. It is a standalone sequel to *Dead Island* and was released for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC on April 23, 2013

for North America and Australasia. It was then released in Europe on April 26, 2013. The game was later ported to the Mac OS X on April 28th, 2014. A remaster of the game called *Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition* was released on May 31st, 2016 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows. This version of the game was also bundled with a remaster of *Dead Island* in the *Dead Island Definitive Collection*.

## Main Plot

The game's story picks up right where the initial Dead Island left off, with the survivors landing on a military ship after their flight from Banoi Island. However, they are kept imprisoned inside the ship and experimented on individually. The Heroes thought that they had escaped the terrors of Banoi Island and survived the approaching apocalypse, but their fate takes a turn for the worst. After meeting John Morgan in the ship, the heroes awake one day to find the ship overrun with Dead Island: Riptide Zombies. After fighting through the ship, they reach the bridge and deal with The Captain, who is now undead. Colonel Hardy attempts to steer the ship away from the rocks, but it crashes and strands them on Palanai Island, located still in the Banoi Island archipelago. Palanai Island has also been struck by the infection, and the island has been overrun with Dead Island: Riptide Zombies. The survivors are found on the beach by a woman named Harlow Jordan. She instructs them to head to the survivor camp called Paradise Survival Camp.

As they arrive the camp is under attack by Infected and the Heroes must help defend the camp, building debris to stop the infected for a little while. After the attack the main plan is to reach the city of Henderson to contact the Military for extraction. They head to Halai Village to see if there are any boats available to take to Henderson but the survivors there tell them that all the ships left long ago. They try the road but it is washed out. The only choice left is to take the underground tunnels that the Japanese built in World War II, but they are flooded. They build a water pump to drain the tunnels but they have to defend the area for the noise attracts the undead.  Once in the tunnels they must fight through undead and living enemies. As they reach the crossing to Henderson they find the station has been taken over by Convicts so with no choice they have to kill them. Once the ferry has been called the Heroes must defend the station, and once the ferry arrives they must engage the Screamer.

They finally arrive in Henderson only to find the city completely overrun with infected. Even the military base fell to the undead hordes. The Heroes secure the old movie theatre as a base of operations for the time being. The Heroes check out the base to contact the army to extract them, but the only response they get is from Frank Serpo, claiming that the colonel is dead and that he is sending a chopper. As the chopper arrives Serpo tries to trick the Heroes into boarding the chopper so he can leave the normal people behind to die. Not falling for it, Colonel Hardy tries to board so he can leave but is shot by a soldier. As a result of this, Logan Carter shoots the chopper down using a rocket launcher. The chopper crashes at the Old Fort and the heroes go to see if it is salvageable but the chopper is completely destroyed.

They follow a trail of blood to an injured pilot who tells them that Serpo killed one of the pilots to distract the Infected so he could save his own life. After that they find Serpo who tells them that Harlow is a terrorist who was planning on selling the Virus to make "a shit load of money" and that she is in the quarantine zone at the docks. The Heroes break open the quarantine zone gates and rush to the docks where they find all the human survivors dead and Harlow ranting.  She says the government unleashed the virus on Palanai Island to test the lethality of the new bio-weapon they planned on using, and that the immune could never leave or the whole world would end up like Banoi Island and Palanai Island.

Harlow injects herself with the mutagen and fights them. The heroes then take a dose of the mutagen to defeat Harlow. After the fight they find a boat and prepare to leave when Serpo enters the room. He pleads for the immune to come with him saying he could cure them from the mutagen. Instead, they leave him to his fate and he is mauled and killed by Infected. As the boat is leaving it is shown that the hospital camp and movie theatre have been overrun by Infected. A Ram busts through the security shutters 6 days later, and a similar boat is seen docking at an unknown island as news reports are saying that Palanai Island and Banoi Island are returning to normal. As inhabitants approach the arrived boat, retching and gurgling sounds of Dead Island: Riptide Zombies can be heard inside the boat, leaving you curious about the current status of our heroes.