


The premise with DayZ is that players take on the role of a survivor in the post-Soviet state of Chernarus where a virus has infected everybody - with the exception of other player survivors - and turned them into zombies.

However, with DayZ's preview release earlier in the year, it quickly gained huge traction due to its unique settings and survival horror theme - and for good reason. Until the DayZ Mod came out in early 2012, ARMA II and its expansion, ARMA II: Operation Arrowhead, had essentially gone under the radar.
