Dead Island: Riptide – Zombie Bait Edition torso

Dead Island: Riptide is an action role-playing survival horror video game and stand-alone expansion to Dead Island developed by Polish developer Techland and published by Austrian publisher Deep Silver. It was released in April 2013 for Microsoft Windows, mh:awesomegames:PlayStation 3, and mh:awesomegames:Xbox 360.

In January 2013, Deep Silver announced that Dead Island: Riptide would be available in a Zombie Bait Edition, which would include a 1/3 statuette, resembling adult stubby holders except for the gorn, of the bloodily dismembered torso of a bikini-clad woman.

Marketing materials described it as the game's "take on an iconic Roman marble torso sculpture" and "a striking conversation piece". The American market version of the statuette has the "Stars and Stripes" patterned bikini, while the European counterpart has a Union Jack pattern.

Reaction
The statuette caused an overwhelmingly negative reaction from the video game press and from activists. Some journalists described the statuette as "gross", as something that not even a sociopath would want, or as a "textbook example of the most extreme ends of misogynist fantasy, a woman reduced to nothing but her tits, her wounds hideously depicted in gore, jutting bones, and of course barely a mark covering her globular breasts". Countries such as Germany and Australia banned this edition of the game (Australia also banned the trailer after it aired during an MMA show for its frank depiction of suicide) but despite this, some retailers still promoted and sold the Zombie Bait Edition.

Destructoid's Jim Sterling stated: ''"Jesus Christ, what kind of sociopath would actually want this 12" resin nightmare? Even putting aside the weird message a sexualized corpse torso sends, it's just ... ugly. There are a few items I wouldn't decorate my office with, but this... thing... sure would be one of 'em."''

Joystiq's JC Fletcher writes: "It's too gross even to qualify for the A Christmas Story joke that usually applies to body-part statues."