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Dead Island 2 is a 2023 action role-playing game developed by Dambuster Studios and published by Deep Silver. It is a sequel to the 2011 video game Dead Island and the third major installment in the Dead Island series. Set about 17 years after the events of Dead Island and Dead Island: Riptide, Dead Island 2 differentiates itself from its predecessors by taking place in the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco, which have been quarantined due to a zombie outbreak. The game was released on April 21, 2023, for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

About 10 years after the events of Dead Island,[3] the United States government and US military are forced to put California under a full quarantine restricted zone due to a new and stronger zombie outbreak.

As Los Angeles is being quarantined, six individuals (dubbed "Slayers") attempt to board one of the last evacuation flights out of the city: hustler Bruno, mechanic Carla, retail worker Dani, firefighter-themed stripper Ryan, athlete Amy, and stuntman Jacob.

In the confusion, the evacuation flight ends up having an infected on board, causing the army to shoot it down. The Slayers narrowly survive the crash but end up getting bitten and infected trying to help some other survivors. The Slayers manage to make their way to the home of one of the crash survivors, actress Emma Jaunt, who reluctantly shelters them despite their infection. Sam B, Emma's ex-boyfriend, arrives at the mansion, intending to get Emma out of the city and revealing he is immune to the infection, and the Slayers come to realize that they are immune as well. With the Slayers still intent to get out of the city, they head to the nearest evacuation center at the Halperin Hotel. The Slayers find the hotel overrun and recover a radio and make contact with Dr. Reuben Reed, a CDC doctor who asks them to come to his safe haven in Santa Monica where they can use the Slayers' immunity to synthesize a cure. Sam warns the Slayers not to trust Reed.

The Slayers head through the sewers to get to Santa Monica, finding out that the zombie corpses the military had been dumping into the sewers have begun to meld together into a massive, tumor-like growth spreading underneath the city. They are stopped by another group of survivors led by Lola Konradt, who drops the Slayers into a pit full of zombies which temporarily triggers a bestial rage in them which they use to kill all the zombies. The Slayers manage to reach Reed's haven at the Serling Hotel. Reed informs them that the military will not extract them from LA unless they provide proof of immunity, which means using Reed's testing equipment at the overrun CDC HQ. The Slayers recover the equipment, and return to find out that Reed and Konradt are acquaintances. The Slayers are sent to find Reed's missing daughter Tisha, who is working with a team of hackers investigating mysterious encrypted data being exchanged by the CDC. Tisha tells the Slayers a way to contact Konradt directly in return for them to give her more time to investigate the CDC.

Konradt tips the Slayers off to a secret lab Reed was sending other immune subjects to. While fighting an infected test subject, the Slayers succumb to their bestial instincts and attack Tisha, who apparently kills them, only for them to be revived to Konradt. She explains to the Slayers that she, her followers, and the Slayers are a new type of humanity dubbed Numen, who can assimilate the infection, called the Autophage, while retaining their minds and gain a telepathic hive mind with other Numen. Before leaving, she warns the Slayers that Reed is not actually searching for a cure. The Slayers return to the Serling Hotel to confront Reed, to find out he has fled with Tisha to a lab on Hollywood Blvd and that he was responsible for the Autophage outbreak in LA.

Furious at constantly being lied to, the Slayers gather together Emma, Sam, and helicopter pilot Patton with the intention of stealing Reed's helicopter and leaving the city. They reach Hollywood Blvd, where Sam begins to succumb to the Autophage, his immunity deteriorating. The Slayers go on ahead and confront Reed, who admits that he released the Autophage in LA in order to filter out Numen, explaining that the Autophage is not a plague, but a part of humanity's DNA that is hard-coded to wipe them all out at a predetermined time; the Numen, who he considers either anomalies or "puppets" of the Autophage, were his only way to find a method to neutralize it. He gives the Slayers a single dose of Autophage cure, and reveals that Tisha also carries the cure in her body as he secretly injected her with Numen blood prior to birth in order to harvest the cure for the rest of her life. Reed succumbs to the Autophage, forcing the Slayers to kill him while Tisha flees.