With Dead Island 2 right around the corner
(believe it or not), I, Suggestive Gaming, figured now would be a great time to go over
the story so far. As always on this series, there are a couple caveats. For a series that
is just now getting a proper second installment over ten years after the initial release, there
have been a variety of spinoffs released during that time, most of which publisher Deep Silver
consider to be non-canon. As such, I’m going to cover the first installment, Dead Island, and it’s
standalone expansion, Dead Island: Riptide, in the first part of this video, then I’ll briefly cover
the stories of the questionably canon spinoffs, Escape Dead Island, Dead Island: Epidemic, and
Dead Island: Retro Revenge in the second part. Now for the things I won’t be covering in this
video. I will not be covering the novelization of the first game (since the story is the same
as its source material). I also will be leaving out all of the comic books (both the Marvel
and Dark Horse published entries) since I was unable to get my hands on nearly any of
them and they’re practically nonexistent these days. I can’t imagine their stories will
be that integral to the sequel in that case. Now, without further ado, this is What
You Need to Know about Dead Island. Our story begins at the Royal Palms Resort on
Banoi Island, off the coast of Papua New Guinea. There, we find a drunk guest of
the hotel stumbling into a party filled with several VIPs. Among them are
former pro football player Logan Carter, rapper Sam B (who is performing at the event),
firearms expert and bodyguard Purna Jackson, and finally, secret Chinese spy and employee of
the resort Xian Mei. During the party, however, some guests begin to go insane and bite others.
The drunk patron doesn’t seem to notice this, and stumbles back to their room where
they pass out, leaving their fate unknown. Around this time, we find Colonel Ryder White of
the Australian Defense Force, being interrogated by his superiors regarding his loyalty to his
mission. After proving himself by pledging his ability to kill his own wife (hesitatingly),
Ryder is assigned to a mission on Banoi Island. The morning after the party at the Royal Palms
Resort, the aforementioned VIPs awaken to find the hotel in a state of disarray, overrun with
the zombie-like “infected”, who mindlessly kill and devour anybody in their path. After our four
heroes are attacked and bitten by an infected, they are then aided by a group of survivors
to escape the hotel. While they pass out, they awaken to find themselves
unaffected by the infected’s bite. Seemingly immune to whatever
infection is ravishing the island, the heroes then help the de facto leader
of the survivors, lifeguard John Sinamoi defend the beach house they are currently taking
shelter in from attacking infected. Afterward, Sinamoi receives a radio transmission from an
unknown man, who offers to help the survivors escape the island so long as they get
to his location to take him with him. After the transmission is cut short,
Sinamoi elects to move the group to the main lifeguard station, where
they can use a stronger radio. The heroes then recover Sinamoi’s access
card and clear out the lifeguard station, allowing the rest of the survivors to follow
and make it their new base of shelter. After working more with Sinamoi to provide
support for the survivors, the heroes head to the nearby lighthouse where they meet another
group of survivors led by a man named James Stein. They then help James power up the lighthouse in exchange for a signal amplifier for
the radio at the lifeguard station. After returning with the amplifier, the
heroes help out Sinamoi and the survivors further before heading to the hotel’s parking
garage in search of a truck they can use to break through a blockage to the entrance
of the tunnel leading to the nearby town. Traversing through the hotel, the heroes meet
a surviving security guard named Mike Davis, who offers to lead them to the garage
if they find his fellow guard, Ken. The heroes find Ken, unfortunately too
late. While they are able to provide him with morphine for his pain, they are forced to
simply watch as he passes from his injuries. Luckily, the heroes are able to work with Mike
to reset the hotel’s security systems and finally reach the parking lot, where they retrieve the
truck before driving it to the lifeguard station. The heroes then work with a surviving,
although recently bitten, mechanic named Earl, as well as his daughter Jin, to reinforce the
truck to ensure safe travel to the city. After the truck is reinforced with armor, Earl only
agrees to hand over the keys if the heroes take Jin with them to safety. After the young woman
says her goodbyes to her father, she reluctantly goes with the heroes to find more supplies for the
survivors, starting at a church within the town. Around this same time, Ryder White is just above
Banoi Island in a helicopter. After executing a bombing run that destroys several bridges to
part of town, the chopper’s co-pilot turns out to be infected and attacks the other
pilot, causing the helicopter to crash. When Ryder awakens, he finds
himself the sole survivor. Colonel White then helps the various security
forces on the island as he awaits an evac helicopter. After boarding it, White contacts
his wife, Emily (who is stationed at a prison on a neighboring island), to ensure her
safety. He receives terrible news, however, as she tells him that she has been bitten
and infected, and instructs him to stay away from her to protect himself. Ryder instructs the
helicopter pilot to change course to the prison. There, White finds his wife strapped to a bed,
nearly completely turned from her infection. He then meets a prisoner named Kevin Barrister,
who claims to have been taking care of Emily. White finds and meets with Kevin face-to-face,
recognizing him as an international terrorist hacker codenamed “Charon”. White reluctantly
works with Charon to restore power to the prison so he can recover some Tetracycline
to use to slow down Emily’s infection. After protecting the church from infected, the
heroes help the survivors inside, including Mother Helen, who tells them to search the wealthy part
of town for supplies. With the bridges destroyed, however, they are forced to follow a man named
Joseph into the sewers, where they reach the wealthy part of town, meeting Mayor Todd Tanis
inside the Town Hall. The mayor provides them with little help, forcing the heroes to reach out
to the unknown man on the radio once again. First, however, they agree to help Jin provide for the
survivors at the church and the lifeguard station. Soon, they learn that Jin had been captured
trying to help the survivors at the police station (in spite of the heroes not wanting
to help them), forcing them to save her. After saving Jin and delivering
the supplies to the survivors, the heroes return to Sinamoi to use the antenna,
but learn that it still isn’t powerful enough. They then head back to the hotel to use the radio
there to contact the unknown man, who reveals that he is inside the nearby prison island. When the
group questions him, he claims to be Colonel Ryder White, instructing them to meet with a smuggler
named Mowen who can get them into the prison. After helping some locals in a nearby village, the group find Mowen and take him to a research
lab on the island (operated by pharmaceutical giant “GeoPharm”) in hopes to use the heroes’
seemingly immune blood to find a cure for the infection (which the man claiming to be Ryder
White intends to use to cure his wife Emily). There, the group meet Dr. West and the
rest of the researchers in the lab, and provide samples of their blood. Dr. West
reveals that the infection is a mutated strain of a degenerative neurological disease
called “Kuru”. He also explains that the island’s natives had first gotten infected,
with other natives also showing immunity. Hoping for more data to compare, Dr. West sends
the heroes to the natives’ village to convince them to provide their own blood samples. The
group head to the village and prove themselves in a combat arena in order to convince the
villagers, who provide them with blood samples. Dr. West then studies the samples and sends
them back out to find tissue samples from someone who was never infected. The
group find a woman named Yerema on the way and rescue her, bringing her
and the samples back to the lab. While Dr. West continues his work, Mowen
finally agrees to take the heroes to the prison island. The group help him prepare
for the journey, and Jin finally returns to her now fully infected father to say her
goodbyes and put him out of his misery. Meanwhile, Dr. West speaks with Charon over a
video call, revealing that the “antidote” he is working on is actually a modified form of
the virus for Charon to use in a terroristic plot planned by his employers, a secret
organization known as the “Consortium”. West reveals that he was able
to derive the virus from Yerema, whose blood contains the pathogen in its pristine
form, making the woman a “walking timebomb”. Dr. West still intends to study
the pathogen to create a vaccine, but Charon instructs him to leave it be. West
defies this order and ends their transmission, before attempting to take more blood from
Yerema. Yerema grows afraid of the doctor, and locks herself in a nearby cage in order
to prevent him from taking more of her blood. Charon watches this unfold from the lab’s security
cameras, and as the doctor tries to operate the controls to open the cage, Charon hacks the lab’s
security to instead open the cages for all of the other infected being studied in the lab, which
quickly overrun the facility and kill Dr. West. After administering the Tetracycline to
Emily, Colonel Ryder White returns to Charon and observes these events, but continues
to work with the hacker. Ryder then clears out the prison’s showers to allow safe entry for
the heroes’ imminent arrival to the island. As the heroes and their group prepare to embark
on their journey, however, the voice on the radio (who had actually been Charon all along,
unbeknownst to them) calls them and reveals that something is going on in the lab. The group
investigates and finds it overrun with infected. They find Yerema, who explains what happened to
Dr. West, believing it was he who accidentally opened the cages. The group then finds
the supposed “antidote” West developed and finally boards the boat. The heroes, Mowen,
Jin, and Yerema then travel and reach the prison. Meanwhile, inside the prison, Ryder finally loses his patience with Charon and holds
him at gunpoint, demanding answers. Charon lies and states that the group are
bringing an antidote, and the pair rig an elevator with a knockout gas trap so that they
can steal it from them as soon as they arrive. When the group reach the prison, they work with a
prisoner named Titus Kabui before it gets overrun with infected after the other prisoners attempt an
uprising. After escaping they reach an elevator, but as soon as they enter it, it is filled
with the knockout gas, and they pass out. Charon and Ryder White watch the result
of their trap from the control room, but White decides to take matters into his
own hands. Holding him at gunpoint again, White locks Charon inside the control room and
steals the “antidote” before retrieving Emily, and taking her to the roof for evacuation. When the group awakens, they are met by Kevin
Barrister (whose true identity as the terrorist “Charon” is unknown to them). He tells them that
Ryder White was the one who knocked them out, took the antidote, and left. Kevin also reveals
that White inteads to unleash nuclear bombs onto the island to wipe out the virus. The group race
to a helipad atop the prison to confront White, and after fighting through hordes of infected
on the way, they finally meet him face-to-face. The colonel holds them at gunpoint, with his wife,
now fully infected and still strapped to her bed, alongside him. White tells them that he’s
in contact with doctors in Sydney who can use Dr. West’s antidote to create a widespread
cure. Jin then releases White’s wife, Emily, who ends up biting the colonel. In anger, White shoots
Jin, who falls to her death shortly after. Ryder White is then forced to inject himself with the
“antidote”, and instead of curing him, it mutates him into a larger, stronger beast. The heroes are
then forced to fight and kill the Infected White, before Kevin commandeers the helicopter
and flies them off towards a naval fleet. Meanwhile, reports of the events
on Banoi, its quarantined status, as well as the infamous hacker
“Charon” are heard across the world. When the helicopter reaches the naval vessel, the
group exit it and are immediately apprehended by the Australian Defence Force, led by Lieutenant
Colonel Samuel Hardy. Hardy explains that they must be detained in a quarantined area strictly
as a precaution. However, another man arrives shortly after, and Charon recognizes him as
another agent for the Consortium: Frank Serpo. Serpo takes Charon and Yerema with him (although
Yerema fails to try to escape by biting a guard), and he sends the immune heroes
down to the “lab” to be tested on. After their first round of experiments, the
heroes wake up inside their holding cell to find another immune captive: former Australian
Defence Force Sergeant John Morgan. Soon, however, they awaken to find that the ship has been
overrun by infected due to Yerema carrying the virus and transferring it to the guard and
Hardy is forced to unlock all of the cell doors. The heroes fight their way through the ship to
reach the upper deck, where they find Hardy and Serpo arguing about the latter evacuating before
the Consortium agent takes off in a helicopter, leaving everyone else behind on the boat. With
the captain now dead, the group fight towards the bridge, and while they are able to get inside,
Hardy isn’t able to steer the ship in time, and they run aground on the shores of Palanai
Island, still within the Banoi Archipelago. A woman named Harlow Jordan finds the immune
survivors from the shipwreck and leads them to the Paradise Survival Camp (although Charon
and Yerema’s whereabouts are still unknown). After protecting the camp from hordes of
attacking infected, the immune heroes reunite with Sam Hardy. Hardy explains that while he
was trying to look out for their best interest, Serpo and the Consortium (who are rumored
to be trying to weaponize the plague for use as a bio-weapon) superseded his orders.
Hardy offers his help by directing them to a military outpost in the nearby city
of Henderson, but the group will have to get there by boat before the military
nukes the area to cover everything up. After learning that all of the boats
have left the nearby fishing village, and that the only road to Henderson has been
flooded, the group are left with one last option: to use underground tunnels built by the Japanese
during World War II. Unfortunately, those are also flooded, forcing the group to retrieve a water
pump to clear their way. After setting it up and defending it against the infected attracted by the
noise, the group are able to enter the tunnels. Inside however, they are exposed to a chemical
mutagen that mutates the virus (which they had been warned of by a researcher named Dr. Kessler).
This mutation turns one of the other survivors, Wayne, into a powerful monster. The group contact
Kessler, who fears that their exposure to the chemical may have affected their immunity, but
the heroes nonetheless continue on to Henderson. Using an old ferry, the group finally cross a bay
to reach the town of Henderson. Unfortunately, they soon find that the city has also been overrun
with infected, including the military outpost. After taking shelter in an
abandoned movie theater, however, the group soon find
that Harlow has gone missing. Sam Hardy then leads the group to the military
base, where they are able to use a radio to make contact with a third party. Unfortunately, the
only person they can reach is none other than Frank Serpo. Serpo claims that Hardy has been
lying to them, and that he intends on rescuing them so they can work on a vaccine. Furthermore,
Serpo denies any plans of nuking the island. Serpo then signs off by telling them that he’ll
send a chopper to pick them up at the theater, leaving them with a warning to not trust Hardy. Back at the theater, Hardy admits that he
lied about the nuke in order to motivate the heroes to act quickly, but
they nonetheless work together to clear a landing zone for the chopper,
planning to commandeer it after it lands to ensure all of the survivors (not
just the immune) are able to escape. When the chopper arrives, Serpo’s
men instruct only the immune to get on board. When Hardy defies
this order, he is shot and killed. The heroes then shoot the chopper down with a
rocket launcher, and it crashes at a nearby fort. The heroes investigate the fort to search for
Serpo and soon find him. Serpo then tells them that Harlow had been working against them the
entire time, working to steal the virus and the data for a vaccine simply to make money off of
whoever would buy it from her for the highest bid. The heroes then follow Harlow to a lab
near the docks inside the Quarantine Zone and find her. When they question
her, Harlow reveals that the outbreak on Palanai was actually a conspiracy
planned by the government to test a new bio-weapon’s effectiveness. She further
explains that when she was caught breaking into the lab to search for the vaccine,
they tested the mutagen chemical on her, sending her into a rage that caused her to kill
all of the uninfected researchers in the lab. When the heroes try to talk her down so they
can escape, Harlow attacks in a fury. After a short battle, Harlow injects herself with more
of the mutagen so she can stop them, mutating into a larger creature. The heroes are forced to
continue the fight, but when they find themselves no match for Harlow’s mutations, they’re forced
to take the mutagen themselves to level the field. The mutated heroes are finally able to
defeat Harlow and seemingly return to normal. As Harlow lays dying, she warns
the heroes not to leave the island, as they’ll risk infecting the rest of the
world with their dormant mutated virus. In her final breath, she calls them the
“angel of death” before finally dying. Shortly after, the group reach a boat, and Serpo
arrives in tow. He admits that Harlow was telling the truth, and his organization had indeed spread
the virus discovered on Banoi to study its effects as a bio-weapon. While Serpo states that they’ll
need his help to cure themselves of the mutagen, the heroes leave him behind as they board
the boat, simply watching as a group of infect rush and finally kill him. As
the infection rages on the island, the surviving group sail off
towards an unknown future. Six days later, on an unknown island distant from
Palanai, an unknown woman listens to a news report indicating that the crisis in Banoi and Palanai
is over, and life is returning back to normal as the virus was contained within the area. She
looks up and sees the survivors’ boat floating towards her dock, mysteriously with nobody
on deck. Suddenly, however, its hatch opens, leaving the future of our heroes, as well as
the virus and its mutations, unknown… for now. While this brings us to the end of the canon
storyline of Dead Island, there are a few other “Dead Island” games that have come out over
the years. These games all have questionable canonicity to the mainline games, as “Escape
Dead Island” was reportedly intended by its developers to be a non-canon sidestory (although
some of the lore it introduces may be canon to the overall backstory), “Dead Island: Epidemic”
was canceled before it was even released, and “Dead Island: Retro Revenge” is
more of a retro-style throwback novelty. For the sake of completion, however, let’s take a look at these stories as
well, starting with Escape Dead Island. This story begins two days before the outbreak
on Banoi Island. A secret operative named Rob infiltrates a GeoPharm lab on Narapela Island
in search of a mole who leaked the information about the virus (and GeoPharm’s research on it) to
Charon, who intends to release it into the entire island. With remote help from Xian Mei (working
undercover on Banoi for the Hong Kong Police), Rob fights through the already infected researchers in
the lab to finally reach the mole. After killing him, Rob speaks with Charon on the phone, who
claims that his motives are to bring an end to the supposed conspiracy group, the Palm Garden Order’s
“monopoly on power”. Rob then hides the data left behind by the mole inside a bathroom for later
extraction, but is never seen or heard from again. Outside, the virus has escaped, and the
entire island of Narapela is now infected. Six months later, we find Cliff Calo, son of
media mogul Tom Calo, sailing to the Banoi Archipelago on his father’s boat (which he stole).
Believing the government to be covering up what’s really happening on Banoi Island, Cliff along
with his friends Linda Waterson, a reporter, and Devan Mavropani, a graphic designer, hope
to break the story to the general public. Cliff also hopes that this story will end up
being a valuable asset to his father’s company, putting him back in his good graces after Tom
decided to leave the family business to Cliff’s sister after the young man’s wild college
partying proved him to be unfit to run it. Due to Banoi’s harbors
being closed to all vessels, the group instead dock on the
shores of Narapela. On the beach, the group are surprised to find a shipping
container adorned with the GeoPharm logo. While they’re investigating, however, the
ground begins to shake, and Cliff’s father’s boat mysteriously begins to sink. Cliff tries
to swim back to it, but passes out in the water. Sometime later, Cliff awakens, inexplicably inside
one of the shipping containers in the jungle. Exploring, Cliff comes across the
zombie-like infected inhabiting the island. Cliff gets past them, finding a rope to use
for traversal before he reaches a marina, where his head begins to throb and he begins
to receive strange messages hinting that things may not be as they seem. Back on the
beach, Cliff is forced to dodge more storage containers which are strangely falling
from the sky. He’s too slow, however, as one seemingly falls directly
on him, knocking him out again. When Cliff reawakens, he now finds himself inside
another shipping container on the beach with his clothes tattered. Linda arrives and reveals
to Cliff that he had been passed out since he tried to stop the boat from sinking (which it
unfortunately did, stranding them on the island). Strangely, however, Cliff still has
the rope he found in his “dream”. Cliff, Linda, and Devan then find their way
into the jungle and hike up to the top of a nearby mountain. On the way, however,
they find piles of torn apart bodies. While At the mountaintop, they spot a large
villa, a village, an airfield, and the marina. As Linda and Devan argue over where to go
first, Cliff spots a radio on a bench nearby. Cliff hears an unknown woman speaking on the
other end, but is distracted when Linda and Devan grab his attention to go with them to
the village to interview the island’s natives. On the way, however, the bodies in the piles
awaken, and while Cliff fights off the infected, one of them is able to bite Linda.
After Cliff eliminates the threats, he and Devan spot a cloud of smoke coming from
the airfield. Devan takes Linda back up to the mountaintop to recover, and Cliff heads to the
airfield to investigate. On the way, Cliff gets a call from Linda on the radio, although she
strangely doesn’t let him speak with Devan. Once he reaches the airfield, Cliff finds a
crashed plane with Xian Mei inside. She escapes the wreckage, and Cliff fights off an arriving
horde of infected. After an alarm begins to sound, attracting even more, Xian gives Cliff a pistol
to use to protect her as she disables the alarm. Afterwards, Xian and Cliff enter
the airfield’s security room. Cliff asks Xian if Linda will become one
of “them”, and Xian explains that if there were any cure on the island, it would be
in the GeoPharm research lab. She then tasks Cliff with shutting off the power
in the nearby village so they can find three keycards in order to unlock the “master
key” that they can use to get inside the lab. In the village, Cliff finds several
video recordings of Dr. Faith Kimball, a GeoPharm scientist hired directly
by the company’s CEO, Emory Crown, to research “regenerative medicine” in hopes of
finding a cure for the infection. Unfortunately, her research ultimately led nowhere,
and the infected ravishing the island seemingly halted it, as her last recording
ends abruptly with her being attacked. After Cliff successfully cuts the power, Xian
sends him the locations of the three keycards to recover. Cliff successfully recovers all
three, experiencing more visual and auditory abnormalities in the process. Returning to the
security room, Cliff unlocks the door to find the lab’s main keycard. Suddenly, he begins to hear
his father speaking about leaving his business to his daughter, before a poisonous gas fills
the room, causing Cliff to pass out once again. Cliff later wakes up inside of a strange
room, opening the door to find that he was inside of another storage container atop the
mountain. Exiting, he finds Linda on the ground, before she is taken away by a giant mutated
infected. This turns out to seemingly be a dream, however, as Cliff then awakens once more inside
of the same room. This time he exits to find Devan standing alone. Cliff asks him where Linda
is, and Devan explains that the last night, Linda was barely even breathing, so there’s
no way she could still be alive. When Cliff states that he had been talking to her via radio,
Devan reveals that they never even had a radio. While Devan tries to plead with Cliff to come
with him to the marina to escape the island, he instead decides to head to the
lab to find the cure for Linda. On the way to the lab, Cliff again hears
“Linda” speak to him through the radio, and he eventually reaches and enters the
GeoPharm lab. There, he reunites with Xian Mei, who gives him a shotgun before heading into
the lab ahead of him. Cliff explores the lab, soon finding Rob’s sword, leading Xian to reveal
to Cliff via radio that the data he found must still be stashed somewhere in the lab. Cliff
soon finds the data hidden in the bathroom and makes a copy of it before he continues on,
soon finding Dr. Kimball being forced to work with the giant mutated infected Cliff saw in his
dream: another GeoPharm doctor named Aaron Welles. The pair are apparently testing a cure on Linda’s
body before Cliff interrupts. Welles gives chase, and Cliff narrowly escapes through a greenhouse before finding himself back in the room
inside the storage container on the hill. Cliff makes his way to the marina to
search for Devan, but when he arrives to meet him at a boat he found on the pier, Cliff
begins to hallucinate again. When he comes to, Cliff realizes that the boat Devan found
has been destroyed and he has gone missing. Shortly after, Cliff’s father Tom then
calls out from a helicopter flying overhead, and he instructs his son to meet
him at the helipad immediately. Cliff rushes to the helipad, dealing with more
raining storage canisters, auditory hallucinations of Linda calling him on the radio, and more
infected on the way. Just before he reaches his destination, Kimball calls Cliff to inform
him that Devan had been captured by Welles. Finally at the helipad, Cliff speaks
with his father, who tells him to give him the data he found at GeoPharm. Cliff
refuses, and the helicopter flies off, leaving Cliff to fight off a horde of infected
before he’s pulled into another hallucination. Inside, Cliff comes across a now fully-infected
Linda. Sick of the hallucinations and guilt, Cliff lets his frustrations take hold as he
fights and defeats her before passing out again. Cliff awakens yet again inside the room within
the storage container on the mountain. Leaving it, he receives a call from Xian Mei, who
tells him to leave the island immediately, as it’s rigged to explode very shortly. Cliff then
speaks with Kimball once again, who tells him to get to the villa, where she’ll help him rescue
Devan as long as they help her escape as well. Inside the villa, which belongs to GeoPharm CEO
Emory Crown, Cliff begins to see the infected take on a new, shadow-like form. He fights through them
before coming face-to-face with the mutated Aaron Welles once again. Cliff runs from him, learning
on the way that Charon intends to use the virus before the “Palm Garden Order” conspiracy group
can use it to control the world. He also mentions that his father, Chase Barrister, was “taken out”
by PGO, and warns Cliff that he will be as well. When Cliff finally escapes Welles, he reaches an
elevator, which takes him directly into the belly of the beast: Emory Crown’s office. There, Cliff
finds Kimball, who reveals that she has completed the cure for the virus. Kimball tells Cliff that
he must use it, but just then, Devan rushes Cliff from behind and bites him. Cliff grabs the
serum, but suffers a massive hallucination. In it, Cliff sees Linda and Devan, but an
infected specter of himself bites Linda, before he is forced to kill it. A manic Cliff
then continues on as “Linda” pleads to him to “wake up” and use the serum. Eventually,
Cliff sees Devan in his vision, who implores him to wake up and save them, as “they” have
them strapped down to beds to experiment on. After one more vision of his father, Cliff
finally reaches his final battleground, where he fights the infected Linda once again before
he’s forced to take on the massive Aaron Welles. After emerging victorious, Cliff finds himself
in front of the serum, as well as Devan’s corpse. Realizing he was unable to save his friends,
Cliff picks up the serum and uses it on himself. Sometime later, Cliff awakens on the beach,
and Crown’s villa explodes behind him. Hoping to at least help the rest of the world,
Cliff places all of the data he obtained on the outbreak as well as GeoPharm’s involvement
in a waterproof case and sets it out to sea. After six months of drifting, the case finally
hits, but bounces off a boat: Tom Calo’s boat. Aboard this boat are Linda Waterson, a reporter,
and Devan Mavropani, a graphic designer, hoping to break the true story of the
Banoi Outbreak to the general public. Along with them is Cliff Calo,
whose clothes are already tattered… This brings us to the story of Dead Island:
Epidemic. While the game never saw a full release, its story focused around the island of
Amaia, also in the Banoi Archipelago, where a surviving John Sinamoi arrives. There,
he is again met by a group of survivors, but instead of being simply immune to the virus,
these heroes are instead mutated and strengthened by it. The group then spend their days fighting
off the infected on the island together. Finally, we reach Dead Island: Retro Revenge.
This story revolves around a video game enthusiast named Max living within the now zombie-infested
California. One day, he sees his cat, Rick Furry, being kidnapped by a group of bandits.
Fighting through zombies and bandits alike, Max is able to successfully reunite with Rick
Furry, and the pair work together to return home. This all turns out to be a dream,
however, as Max awakens on his couch to find his video games in his hand, and
his furry companion safely at his side. Unfortunately, this is only momentary, as
the infected slowly advance on their home. This brings us through the storyline of every
Dead Island game released (and unreleased) thus far. In just a few days, we’ll see
where the second mainline installment, Dead Island 2, finally takes us; over a
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