Dead Island: Riptide dated for April next year

Deep Silver has announced a 26 April European launch date for Dead Island: Riptide.

The publisher revealed that players who pre-order the game would be rewarded with an exclusive weapon pack.

A Special Edition was also confirmed, which will include a unique alternate character skin on top of the weapon pack.

Dead Island: Riptide will feature the same four characters from the first game as they fight to survive a zombie attack.

A new weather system will be implemented and players will be able to import save data from Dead Island.

Box art for the game was also released, which you can check out below.

Dead Island: Riptide will be available on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.