Dead Island 2 Is Finally Coming After A Decade Of Development Hell
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Eight years later, Dead Island 2 has made its triumphant return to Gamescom. The beleaguered zombie RPG showcased a elaborate new CGI trailer and a sizzle reel of characters smashing zombies like Gallagher going to city on a pallet of rotting watermelons. It comes out on February 3, 2023, virtually precisely a yr after 2022’s massive ugly zombie RPG. Are you prepared?
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Dead Island 2’s newest trailer confirmed off Jacob, one in every of six playable zombie-slayers. According to the sport’s builders these are “larger than life” characters with “unique” dialogue that showcases the sport’s “pulpy” and “irreverent” tone. It additionally sports activities a co-op marketing campaign, larger map, and extra complicated dismemberment system than its predecessors. But in the event you requested me to determine what units the cursed mission other than different zombie video games exterior of its sun-soaked rendition of Venice Beach, I wouldn’t have a clue.
I don’t know whether or not Dead Island 2 might be any good, and at this level that just about feels inappropriate. It’s transcended the particulars of its sub-genre to grow to be pure online game business spectacle, like Duke Nukem Forever and a handful of different initiatives that had been birthed in a single period and clawed their approach via years of improvement hell into one other.
The sport was infamously revealed again at E3 2014 with a CGI trailer exhibiting a person jogging obliviously whereas everybody behind him is eaten alive by zombies. A short gameplay trailer adopted at Gamescom that summer time which confirmed mainly what we noticed in the present day, albeit a lot much less fairly trying. Then the sport disappeared. The unique reveal trailer has been considered on YouTube over 24 million instances. The prime remark with over 50,000 likes reads, “I was 12 when this trailer came out. I’m 43 now.” That was three years in the past.
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The first Dead Island in 2011 was made by Techland. The Polish studio was speculated to make the sequel however ended up making parkour zombie hit Dying Light as a substitute. Then Yager Development obtained concerned. In 2015 writer Deep Silver dropped the Spec Ops: The Line studio over conflicting visions, and enlisted Sumo Digital within the UK. That didn’t work both. By 2019, guardian firm THQ Nordic (now one of many many facers of Embracer) introduced Dambuster Studios would end the sport with one in every of Deep Silver’s inside studios whereas new alpha builds began leaking on-line.
And now right here we’re. Dying Light 2 launched in February and was…high-quality. Whether Dead Island 2 is healthier, worse, or simply one other fleshy hack-fest, it can definitely be remembered as that sport they refused to only let die.