Zombie fans, it’s time to get happy. If you happened to miss out on one of the sleeper hits of 2011, Dead Island, then we have great news for you. Deep Silver has announced that Dead Island will receive a “Game of the Year” edition that launches this Summer.
The Dead Island Game of the Year Edition will earn you the Bloodbath Arena, Ryder White campaign, and the blueprint for the Ripper weapon. The game is absolutely enormous to start with and the added downloadable content will easily boost your playing time. The new edition of Dead Island will only run you $29.99 and will be available as of June 26th of this year.
Originally released in September of 2011, Dead Island was named Gamecritics.com’s 2011 Game of the Year and received multiple Editors’ Choice awards. Dead Island quickly became a fan favorite, topping the charts of #1 best-selling games worldwide during its launch and going on to delight over 3 million zombie lovers across the globe. This new edition gives players who are yet to experience the beautiful terror of Dead Island a version packed with content: including the Bloodbath Arena mode, theRyder White’s Campaign single-player story arc and the blueprint for the highly-coveted Ripper weapon mod.
If you missed out on Dead Island and love zombies, then you don’t have much of an excuse to not pick up the Game of the Year edition this Summer. What do you think about the Dead Island GOTY edition? Be sure to let us know what you think by leaving us a comment below, or discuss Dead Island in our forums.