However, Yager was moved off the project, with another developer, Sumo Digital, taking their place in 2016, only for Sumo Digital to get moved off as well and replaced with Dambuster Studios in 2019. It was originally announced at E3 2014 for release the following year, again published by Deep Silver and to be developed by Yager Studios (of Spec Ops: The Line fame), taking over from original developer Techland. You'll also find exclusive gameplay in videos like this one about how Dambuster Studios records the sounds of zombie guts in Dead Island 2 and new details about our hands-on time in the Dead Island 2 cover story discussion episode of The Game Informer Show.Dead Island 2 is the long-delayed sequel to the cult 2011 co-op zombie survival game Dead Island. We're just really focused on how do we want to make Dead Island 2 absolutely phenomenal, bring it up to date, and deliver a game that we think fans will really enjoy.'įor more about the game, read my Dead Island cover story here and then head to Game Informer's Dead Island 2 exclusive coverage hub for stories you can't find anywhere else, like why the game is set in a city that isn't an island, detailed breakdowns of two of Dead Island 2's survivors, Dani and Ryan, and how weapon durability is a useful instrument for Dambuster Studios. what happened in the past or looking at too many other games out there. 'We started with a clean slate, absolutely with our own vision. Still, though, I wondered if Dambuster used that original trailer as a guiding light for the game's development, especially given how well-received it was in 2014 ( even Goat Simulator 3 recently remade the trailer). That trailer definitely delivered on the postcard LA and I think we deliver on postcard LA in a different way.'

'I think it's fun to sort of take that trailer – especially now the location of the trailer – and see how it applies to the tone of the Dead Island that we're delivering. 'It wasn't really on our radar to redo the trailer,' Dead Island 2 game director David Stenton tells me. During my cover story trip to play 8 hours of Dead Island 2 at Dambuster's Nottingham, England, location, I was curious: did the team ever consider remaking the original Dead Island 2 trailer? The answer was no. This isn't necessarily surprising – Dambuster says it has developed Dead Island 2 from a clean slate, from the ground up. Dambuster revealed its new Dead Island 2 last year and it did so with a fancy new cinematic trailer, albeit one very different from the original 2014 reveal.

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