Q 01/05

Dead Island's There and Back Again achievement, sharing its name with The Hobbit's subtitle, is unlocked by doing what?

A) Finding every collectible

B) Completing all the side quests

C) Exploring the whole map

D) Finishing all four acts

Answer · why

C) Exploring the whole map

Exploring the whole map of Banoi is the entire task, and finishing the story and side quests covers most of its areas. Progress carries over if you be...

Q 02/05

Dead Island's fictional Banoi lies just north of Australia, off the coast of which real country?

A) Papua New Guinea

B) The Solomon Islands

C) Indonesia

D) The Philippines

Answer · why

A) Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea is the nearest mainland in the game's lore. The same lore bills Banoi as an untouched paradise and the largest island of its own arch...

Q 03/05

Despite its title, Dead Island 2 leaves the tropics for which quarantined American city, split into ten open zones?

A) San Francisco

B) Los Angeles

C) San Diego

D) Las Vegas

Answer · why

B) Los Angeles

Los Angeles was chosen because its postcard-famous districts suit the series' theme of paradise gone to hell. The developers also weighed Catalina Isl...

Q 04/05

Which Dead Island hero, a one-hit-wonder rapper, returns in Dead Island 2 as actress Emma Jaunt's ex-boyfriend?

A) Logan

B) Xian Mei

C) Purna

D) Sam B

Answer · why

D) Sam B

Sam B turns up at Emma's mansion to get her out of the city. His immunity is what tells the sequel's new heroes that they are immune too.

Q 05/05

When Dead Island's creators had a sequel pitch with freerunning turned down, which zombie game did they make instead?

A) Dying Light

B) Dead Rising

C) State of Decay

D) Days Gone

Answer · why

A) Dying Light

Dying Light reused the rejected ideas, parkour included, and came out through Warner Bros. in 2015. The official sequel then spent years passing betwe...