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Dead Island Game of the Year Edition Announced, Dated
Written Tuesday, May 22, 2012 By Lee Bradley
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Deep Silver has officially announced a Game of the Year Edition for Dead Island, bundling the zombie action-survival title with all of the previously released DLC. 

Those add-ons include the Bloodbath Arena mode, as well as the story-based Ryder White content. You also get a weapon blueprint for The Ripper, a nasty combination of a baseball bat and a buzzsaw. Ouch.

It should be noted that the Bloodbath Arena DLC is the proud owner of a 1/10 review from our sister site X360A, while the Ryder White add-on didn't do much better. Double ouch.

Dead Island - Game of the Year Edition hits North America on June 26 and Europe on July 6th.




 
 

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Comment #1 by Metalboy921
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 @ 10:34:56 AM
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It was a good game, fun platinum, but they should throw something else in there for a GOTY release.

 
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Comment #2 by c1ned1ne
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 @ 10:59:37 AM
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The links are both dead.

I will definitely pick this up. Most people I know had fun with the game and the biggest problems should be patched by now - hopefully.
And hey, there is worse DLC out there ;)

 
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Comment #3 by Taktikzade
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 @ 11:07:15 AM
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Oh my days.. GOTY !?!!?!

One of the most boring games i've ever played.

 
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Comment #4 by SilverGriever
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 @ 11:15:13 AM
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This game was "ok" at best. Very dissappointing.

 
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Comment #5 by WigSplasher
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 @ 11:20:15 AM
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I disagree, I thought that the game was amazing... Granted, I did buy it a month ago and most of the launch-era glitches have been corrected.

 
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Comment #6 by AnCafe14
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 @ 11:33:50 AM
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Loved the game first 2 playthroughs, unfortunately glitches made me play this game through 3x and i just hated it after that.

 
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Comment #7 by shatulance
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 @ 11:38:06 AM
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I thought batman had been given GOTY?

 
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Comment #8 by TheAlgebraist
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 @ 11:57:57 AM
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@7 The problem is that there is no official Game of the Year. At least, there's no one agency that's industry-recognized as having the right to bestow the GOTY titles (there are no game Oscars).

What this means is that almost anyone is allowed to make a GOTY edition, and justify it something like this: "Well, we only made one game that year, so it's the Game of the Year!"

 
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Comment #9 by c1ned1ne
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 @ 12:00:11 PM
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"GOTY" is nowadays just another term for Gold Edition, Complete Edition, Ultimate Edition, or whatever these have been called before.
On another note, there are more than one GOTY-Awards out there, nearly every magazine and website has one and Dead Island was actually the best First Person Role Playing Zombie Survival Game (or FPRPZSG - and yes, I just made that up) in 2011 :P

 
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Comment #10 by robinoyo
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 @ 12:06:03 PM
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I bet they created their own game review company in 5 min and gave themselves the GOTY. Not that it's that bad, but which freaking company could give them the GOTY over games like Uncharted 3, Portal 2, Battlefield 3, Dead Space 2 & Skyrim? -_-

 
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Comment #11 by Nave
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 @ 12:43:16 PM
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I don't get why everyone hates this game so much. Sure it had it's glitches, but overall it was a great game.

That said, I'm still not sure if I'll get this. I still have the game and the Bloodbath Arena, but I didn't buy the Ryder White campaign because of the lack of trophies.

If it's cheap, and the DLC is on the disc, I'll sell my original copy and buy this.

 
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Comment #12 by Terminator
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 @ 01:03:42 PM
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This game sucks thanks to all the bugs and the online is virtually unplayable.

 
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Comment #13 by ryan0991
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 @ 03:22:48 PM
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Every single article I see about this is just full of comments b****ing about it being called "game of the year" edition.

Seriously... just shut up. We get it... you don't think it deserves to be called that. You and a thousand other people have already raised that same concern.

 
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Comment #14 by gaviota1195
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 @ 03:23:00 PM
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@12 I did not encounter problems that made it unplayable (It can be improved a lot though) This is my personal opinion: The game for trophy hunters is worth at least 25 hours (Because of Rootin Tootin Rootin) Other than that, fun game, interesting direction, somewhat hard to understand story but once you get the grip of it, the Ryder White DLC will close a LOT of doubts and makes the story even better. I really think that the game just needs some polishing in gameplay and multiplayer. Other than that, the game is awesome and it is at least in the "Good" game category.

 
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Comment #15 by Lara Soft
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 @ 03:33:52 PM
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oh that sucks... i just bought the regular game like 2 days ago

 
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Comment #16 by Avan
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 @ 03:45:53 PM
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Thanks God i did prevent myself of buying this while ago, honestly i'm sick of buying incomplete editions, that is why now i think twice before buying a game, Now is the time for me to buy this and Cheaper

 
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Comment #17 by gaviota1195
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 @ 04:02:59 PM
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@14 Sorry, I meant Rootin Tootin Lootin. Didn't notice the mistake :p

 
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Comment #18 by UndergroundHipHopHead
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 @ 10:31:07 PM
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They should just lower the price on the dlc. They have the money to waste though! They took mine and didn't give me the dlc free with my preorder. All I can do is laugh at this and also laugh at those who think L4D is still better.

 
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Comment #19 by maink
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 @ 11:51:00 PM
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this won game of the year ???

 
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Comment #20 by Jimbo76
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 @ 05:40:03 AM
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this is great news. it means I will be able to pick the original up for next to nothing soon.

 
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Comment #21 by Terminator
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 @ 09:05:17 AM
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@14:

In that case you've been, very, very, lucky. By the time I finally got the 100% for this, the Online was completely broken and didn't work. In two weeks I got into maybe 5 games, all the other times I couldn't even get the Online menu to appear, it just sat there, eventually errored and kicked me out.

 
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Comment #22 by DA PAUL
Monday, July 02, 2012 @ 05:53:21 AM
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Yeah im hoping they will reduce the price of the ryder white dlc on psn now if its being bundled with this goty edition.


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Game Info
Developer:
Techland

Publisher:
Deep Silver

Genre:
Action

Release:

US: September 06, 2011
Europe: September 09, 2011
Japan: October 20, 2011

Resolution: 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
Players: 1
Online Players : 1-4
ESRB: Mature
Collection:1098
Wishlist:188
 
 
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