Dead Island is a 2011 survival-horror action role-playing video game developed by Techland and published by Deep Silver for Microsoft Windows, Linux, OS X, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.

Dead Island takes place in July 2006 on the fictional island of Banoi, a lush, tropical resort destination located off the east coast of Papua New Guinea, just north of Australia. In recent years, Banoi was able to modernize thanks to its tourism industry, but many areas of the island are still wild, primitive and untouched by the modern world. Even though its capital Moresby was founded by Australian settlers in 1895, many of the island's interior areas deep in the jungle have still never been seen by western eyes.

Banoi is known internationally as the location of the popular Royal Palms Resort, a luxurious five-star hotel resort that often attracts high-profile celebrities and throws wild dance parties. Banoi also hosts a Maximum Security Prison off the coast on a smaller island. It was designed as a privately owned maximum security prison facility for international terrorists and criminals.

The island has a modern police force and its own military called the Banoi Island Defense Force (BIDF) in charge of defending and providing security to Banoi.

Later Dead Island games reveal that Banoi is a part of an archipelago of smaller islands, those islands consist of Palani, Amaia, and Narapela.

The night after a high-profile party, 4 playable main characters (hereafter referred to as "the survivors"): Rapper Sam B., hotel receptionist and spy for the Chinese government Xian Mei, former football-star Logan Carter, and ex-police officer Purna—are awakened by a voice over the emergency intercom system directing them to evacuate the hotel. They discover that the majority of the population have been overcome by a contagious and infectious plague, turning them into psychopathic, flesh-eating creatures. Briefly overcome by one of the infected, they are rescued by lifeguard John Sinamoi. The rest of the story you need to watch to find out what happens.

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