It's been less than a day since Deep Silver announced the "Zombie Bait Edition" of Dead Island Riptide, and already the publisher has had to issue an apology. The collector's edition of the Dead Island sequel was advertised this morning with an incredibly creepy and gruesome statue of a woman's mutilated torso, protruding fake breasts and all. This caused some complaints, and the company issued the following statement on Twitter:
A statement on the Zombie Bait Edition:
As we see it the issue here is that the dismembered female torso statue in question is not a zombie; it's just the corpse of a murdered woman, and it's been blatantly sexualized, to boot. If it was a statue of a zombie we'd gladly display it on a shelf—having a head would have helped with that—but as it is, it leaves a rotten taste in our mouths.
What do you think? Is this a whole bunch of controversy over nothing, or do people have a right to complain in this case?
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