Dead Nation is a 2010 shoot 'em up video game developed by Housemarque and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3.

Dead Nation was part of Sony's "Welcome Back" package, created to resolve the initial PlayStation Network outage.

[citation needed] Zombies are attracted by flares, car alarms, grenades, mines, and vending machines.

A year later, the protagonists (either Jack McReady, Scarlett Blake or both when played in co-op mode) are preparing to leave their shelter in search of food and water.

They head to a police station, in search for a means to strengthen the radio signal, but find out they need to get to higher ground to do so.

After picking up the transmission, they are contacted by a Doctor Morton, who tells them he works for Egogate Pharmacy company, and that he is developing a cure, but need two things: a sample of their DNA and a tissue sample from Patient Zero, named Douglas Bane, the first human being to be infected; he then directs them to Marrow hospital, through the edge of the city.

However, the body was moved again to Raven's Field Airport, north of the harbor, so they head there and, after collecting Bane's head, they fly using an abandoned helicopter to the underground facility, where they are welcomed by the doctor and told that they will be injected with a serum to be synthesized by their bodies and they will be living sources of the cure.

Realizing that they have nothing to lose, and there is no way out, they bite a cyanide capsule they have implanted inside their molar, in case they are overwhelmed by zombies, to prevent enduring the pain of being eaten alive.

[28][29][30] The game engine was noted for supporting large numbers of zombies on screen as well as impressive lighting effects.

A DLC expansion called Road of Devastation was released in September 2011 for the PS3,[32] and in April 2014 for the PlayStation Vita.