It's just a testimony of our dedication to get it right. "Look, Dead Island is a very important brand for us and we've got to get it right. "My favourite question," Kundratitz said when our friends at asked for an update on the beleaguered zombie sequel. But in April 2015 it was delayed to 2016, suggesting major problems were afoot.ĭead Island 2 is still without a release date, but Koch Media boss Klemens Kundratitz recently insisted it was still important for the company. It was playable by press at events throughout the second half of 2014, at a time when the game was due out spring 2015. What we'd seen of Dead Island 2 showed it as colourful and crazy - an eight-player multiplayer zombie riot in sunny LA.
It was first announced at E3 2014 with an eye-catching trailer that, well, is certainly quite the watch today. Then, in August 2019, Deep Silver announced it had brought development in-house at Homefront: The Revolution maker Dambuster Studios.ĭead Island 2 has been in the works for quite some time, then, and has clearly suffered a rocky development as it's shifted between three studios. In March 2016, Deep Silver announced UK studio Sumo Digital had taken on Dead Island 2. Footage from it is popping up all over YouTube:Įurogamer has verified this build is the work of Spec Ops: The Line maker Yager, which was tasked by publisher Deep Silver with making the zombie sequel before both parties split amid creative differences in July 2015. The build, which reportedly emerged on the V board of 4Chan, is playable, although there are placeholder assets throughout.
People are downloading and playing a five-year-old build of Dead Island 2.
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