History Trivia / DeadIsland

* HeyItsThatVoice: Creator/PhilLaMarr is Sam B, DavidKaye is Logan Carter, and Kim Mai Guest is Xian Mei.

** DaveWittenberg is Bobby.

** Creator/SteveBlum shows off a hilarious Australian accent as Sinamoi the lifeguard and voices Nikolai for at least a few lines.
*** No arguments about the quality, although Sinamoi's accent is closer to a New Zealand one (the character seems to be Maori, judging by that tattoo he has near his eye).

* BannedInChina: In certain countries the logo has been changed with the "I" being a standing zombie instead of a hanging body. The promo for ''Riptide'' was shown on Australian TV and it's portrayal of suicide had it pulled, and may have contributed to the game receiving an R rating (the first snuck in at MA.)

** Creator/CamClarke is the audio recordings guy.

* HeyItsThatVoice: PhilLaMarr is Sam B, DavidKaye is Logan Carter, and Kim Mai Guest is Xian Mei.
** SteveBlum shows off a hilarious Australian accent as Sinamoi the lifeguard and voices Nikolai for at least a few lines.

** The audio recordings guy is unmistakably CamClarke.

* ShoutOut
** One of the achievements is called "[[Film/{{Zombieland}} Cardio]]".
** The doctor at the lifeguard station is named [[Series/{{Lost}} Jack]].
** When you first reach the roof of the lifeguard station, you witness [[Series/{{Lost}} an Oceanic Airlines flight crashing in the nearby jungle]].
** The name for the fast-running type of zombie is "The infected," just like in [[Film/TwentyEightDaysLater "28 Days Later"]].
** The list of achievements contains numerous references, including one called [[VideoGame/Left4Dead "Right 4 Life"]], paying homage to one of the game's obvious inspirations. Another achievement is earned by playing the game exactly [[Film/TwentyEightDaysLater 28 days after]] first starting the game.
*** The achievement for clearing Act 2 (which takes place in a city) is entitled [[Franchise/ResidentEvil "No raccoons in here"]].
*** The achievement for killing 15 zombies with a hammer without taking damage is called [[MCHammer "Can't Touch This"]].
*** The achievement for exploring the entire island is called [[Literature/TheHobbit "There and back again"]].
*** The achievement for killing a butcher using an axe is called [[VideoGame/{{Diablo}} "Ah! Spoiled meat!"]]
** When you enter a certain apartment complex in the second act, there's writing on the wall next to a door. What does it say? "[[ComicBook/TheWalkingDead Don't open, dead inside]]".
*** On that same vein, the regular undead are called "Walkers".
** There's a girl called "Anne", who pronounces her name as "Annie", sends you to find her bear and says "Have you seen my bear?" [[LeagueOfLegends Sound familiar?]]
** Late in the game, there's a named enemy named [[CaptainErsatz Jason]]. He has a machete, wears a mask and has decapitated heads on the desk of his house... Who does [[Franchise/FridayThe13th this remind you of?]]
** Early on, as you're going through the bungalows, one of the only unlocked houses contains a bedroom with a female zombie tied to the bed, a running video camera pointed at her, and a dead cameraman slumped against the wall. The zombie's name is an anagram for Jenna Jameson.
** Later on in the game after completing a quest you are awarded a unique Katana called: [[Film/PulpFiction "Zed's Demise"]]
*** There's actually a fair few of these in the weapons, including Hammers named "Ban" (as in 'Banhammer') and "Gabriel's Sledgehammer" (A reference to the song by Peter Gabriel) and a knife called [[Franchise/AssassinsCreed "Assassins Greed"]]
** In the Laboratory area, there's a scientist named West. Frankly, anyone who didn't anticipate problems with a 'Dr. West' working with zombies [[{{Reanimator}} hasn't seen ''Re-Animator'',]] played any of the [[{{Splatterhouse}} Splatterhouse games]], or read the original Creator/HPLovecraft short story "Herbert West, Reanimator".
** There's a weapon mod called the "Left Hand of Glova" that allows you to shoot a [[VideoGame/BioShock1 fistfulla' loitnin']] at zombies. There's even an animation showing your character pretending to inject an EVE hypo.
*** The Rending Claws mod, which involves affixing blades to brass knuckles, used to be called the [[WolverineClaws Wolverine's Claws]] mod.
** You meet a Russian helicopter pilot named [[ModernWarfare Nikolai]].
** Apparently the creators slipped in several references that fly over the heads of anyone not living in Poland, like brands of bottled drinks.
** Early in the game, there is a quest titled [[Music/GunsNRoses "Knockin on Heaven's Door"]].

** There's a weapon mod called the "Left Hand of Glova" that allows you to shoot a [[VideoGame/{{Bioshock}} fistfulla' loitnin']] at zombies. There's even an animation showing your character pretending to inject an EVE hypo.

*** The achievement for clearing Act 2 (which takes place in a city) is entitled [[ResidentEvil "No raccoons in here"]].

** Yerema is [[TransformersPrime Arcee]].

* HeyItsThatVoice: PhilLaMarr is the voice of Sam B, and Kim Mai Guest plays Xian Mei. (Between Xian, [[SyphonFilter Lian Xing]], and [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Mei Ling]], this might qualify Guest for some kind of badass Chinese woman hat trick.)
** SteveBlum shows off a hilarious Australian accent as Sinamoi the lifeguard, and voices Nikolai for at least a few lines.

*** There's actually a fair few of these in the weapons, including Hammers named "Ban" (as in 'Banhammer') and "Gabriel's Sledgehammer" (A reference to the song by Peter Gabriel) and a knife called [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreed "Assassins Greed"]]

* HeyItsThatVoice: PhilLaMarr is the voice of Sam B, and Kim Mai Guest plays Xian Mei. (Between Xian, [[SyphonFilter Lian Xing]], and [[MetalGearSolid Mei Ling]], this might qualify Guest for some kind of badass Chinese woman hat trick.)

*** There's actually a fair few of these in the weapons, including Hammers named "Ban" (as in 'Banhammer') and "Gabriel's Sledgehammer" (A reference to the song by Peter Gabriel) and a knife called [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreed "Assassins Greed"]]
** In the Laboratory area, there's a scientist named West. Frankly, anyone who didn't anticipate problems with a 'Dr. West' working with zombies [[{{Reanimator}} hasn't seen ''Re-Animator'',]] played any of the [[{{Splatterhouse}} Splatterhouse games]], or read the original HPLovecraft short story "Herbert West, Reanimator".

** Late in the game, there's a named enemy named [[CaptainErsatz Jason]]. He has a machete, wears a mask and has decapitated heads on the desk of his house... Who does [[Film/FridayThe13th this remind you of?]]

** Early in the game, there is a quest titled [[GunsNRoses "Knockin on Heaven's Door"]].

** Steve Blum shows off a hilarious Australian accent as Sinamoi the lifeguard, and voices Nikolai for at least a few lines.
** The audio recordings guy is unmistakably Cam [[MetalGearSolid "BROTHER!"]] Clarke.

*** The achievement for clearing Act 2 (which takes place in a city) is entitled [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil "No raccoons in here"]].

** Early on, as you're going through the bungalows, one of the only unlocked houses contains a bedroom with a female zombie tied to the bed, a running video camera pointed at her, and a dead cameraman slumped against the wall. The zombie's name is an anagram for JennaJameson.

** The name for the fast-running type of zombie is "The infected," just like in [[TwentyEightDaysLater "28 Days Later"]].
** The list of achievements contains numerous references, including one called [[Left4Dead "Right 4 Life"]], paying homage to one of the game's obvious inspirations. Another achievement is earned by playing the game exactly [[TwentyEightDaysLater 28 days after]] first starting the game.
*** The achievement for clearing Act 2 (which takes place in a city) is entitled [[ResidentEvil "No raccoons in here"]].

*** The achievement for exploring the entire island is called [[TheHobbit "There and back again"]].

** Early on, as you're going through the bungalows, one of the only unlocked houses contains a bedroom with a female zombie tied to the bed, a running video camera pointed at her, and a dead cameraman slumped against the wall. The zombie's name is an anagram for Jenna Jameson.
** Later on in the game after completing a quest you are awarded a unique Katana called: [[PulpFiction "Zed's Demise"]]
*** There's actually a fair few of these in the weapons, including Hammers named "Ban" (as in 'Banhammer') and "Gabriel's Sledgehammer" (A reference to the song by Peter Gabriel) and a knife called [[AssassinsCreed "Assassins Greed"]]
** In the Laboratory area, there's a scientist named West. Frankly, anyone who didn't anticipate problems with a 'Dr. West' working with zombies [[{{Reanimator}} hasn't seen ''Re-Animator'',]] or played any of the [[{{Splatterhouse}} Splatterhouse games]].
** There's a weapon mod called the "Left Hand of Glova" that allows you to shoot a [[{{Bioshock}} fistfulla' loitnin']] at zombies. There's even an animation showing your character pretending to inject an EVE hypo.

** You meet a Russian helicopter pilot called [[ModernWarfare Nikolai]].