Dead Island: Riptide

They thought they had escaped Banoi, but can't wake up from this nightmare. Thrown back into the midst of the Zombie outbreak, the fight for survival continues! Dead Island Riptide takes players to the island…

64 23 April 2013

Hack and slash/Beat 'em up Role-playing (RPG) Shooter Action Horror Open world Survival

Dead Island: Riptide is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Techland, released 23 April 2013 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 11.1 hrs to finish.

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What Dead Island: Riptide is

Dead Island: Riptide is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Techland and released in 2013. It was published by Deep Silver. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Chrome Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Dead Island: Riptide is a 2013 action role-playing game 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 of 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.

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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, open world and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Dead Island: Riptide holds a critic score of 64 out of 100. That places it above 27% of the 1,124 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 6 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 66, across 152 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 11.1 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 37.1 hrs, roughly 3.3 times the length of the critical path.

What it launched against

Dead Island: Riptide launched on 23 April 2013, within three weeks of Metro: Last Light, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon and Age of Empires II HD. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Metro: Last Light, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, Age of Empires II HD.

Cheats and codes

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