Dead Island Red Edition

Deep Silver clearly had a "name everything Bloodbath" meeting before assembling this one. The Dead Island Red Edition for PlayStation 3 bundles the game with a Bloodbath messenger bag, a Bloodbath beach towel, and the Bloodbath Arena DLC with its four hazardous arenas, endless zombie waves, co-op multiplayer, leaderboards, and a sonic pulse grenade. The Ripper weapon DLC also makes an appearance, giving you that legendary baseball bat and chainsaw hybrid.

The messenger bag is the workhorse of this set. It's practical, it's branded without being obnoxious, and it's the kind of thing that actually leaves your shelf and enters your daily life. The beach towel is inspired.

Dead Island is set on a tropical resort island, so a towel is both thematically perfect and genuinely useful, assuming you're brave enough to take collector's edition merchandise to an actual beach. Together they create an edition that's less about display and more about use, which is a refreshing approach in a market drowning in statues and steelbooks. The Bloodbath Arena DLC extends the game's life with pure survival combat, and the Ripper is one of gaming's most satisfying improvised weapons.

This Red Edition rewards collectors who actually want to live with their purchases rather than just admire them behind glass.