Deep Silver regrets bloody torso

Was it in bad taste? Most definitely. And it seems Deep Silver have taken the criticism to heart as they apologise for the including of a dismembered bloody bikini clad torso that comes with the Zombie Bait Edition of Dead Island: Riptide.

"We deeply apologize for any offense caused by the Dead Island Riptide "Zombie Bait Edition", the collector's edition announced for Europe and Australia. Like many gaming companies, Deep Silver has many offices in different countries, which is why sometimes different versions of Collector's Editions come into being for North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.

For the limited run of the Zombie Bait Edition for Europe and Australia, a decision was made to include a gruesome statue of a zombie torso, which was cut up like many of our fans had done to the undead enemies in the original Dead Island.

We sincerely regret this choice. We are collecting feedback continuously from the Dead Island community, as well as the international gaming community at large, for ongoing internal meetings with Deep Silver's entire international team today. For now, we want to reiterate to the community, fans and industry how deeply sorry we are, and that we are committed to making sure this will never happen again."

The publisher posted the above on their official Twitter channel, no word on what will replace the torso at this point. The game is due out on April 26.