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Dead Island by Tin Salamunic

Unused House of the Dead: Overkill artwork.

Favorite tagline: “Damn she’d be fine looking if she weren’t a mutant.”

The rumor mill is in full motion surrounding the third installment of Capcom’s Dead Rising series with minor details brought to light.

Rumblings suggest that Dead Rising 3 will have a change of scenery, this time trapping players in a chaotic Californian town sectioned off by the government thanks to a pesky zombie outbreak inconveniently killing folks left and right.

Controlling a mechanic named Rick (no, I guess Capcom doesn’t know what The Walking Dead is), you set about on a quest to build the perfect getaway plane while improving your knack for creatively macabre, DIY dismemberment along the way.  Dead Rising 3 also intends to tackle themes of illegal immigration (specifically, a cadre of still living infected that are dodging government registration) and the old Capcom standby: corporate conspiracy.

As per Kurt Kobain’s will, zombie clones of himself were set loose upon our world, spreading chaos and flannel wherever blood was to be spilled.