More of the same in a new setting just isn’t going to cut the mustard when we’ve been treated to so much more. There have been so many games that have moved the needle more than Dead Island ever managed to, so it’s hard to imagine how a new version of Dead Island would be able to revolutionise the genre. Games like Red Dead Redemption 2, Ghost of Tsushima and Breath of the Wild have refined the open world genre by offering an enhanced layer of interaction, undeniably beautiful representations of worlds in chaos and more explorability than you can hope for. On top of that, there have been hordes of open world games that have launched since Dead Island 2’s reveal. It’s hard to imagine a version of Dead Island 2 that matches up to everything Dying Light has accomplished without feeling like a carbon copy. However, in doing so, they’ve arguably cornered that gap in the market, which would only undermine the games that are attempting to emulate that same formula. Techland’s work with Dying Light proved that the open world zombie survival RPG was worth exploring, after Dead Island didn’t quite stick the landing. Sure, playing as Sam B and punching zombies in the head is cool and all, but grapple hooks and dropkicks are better in every way. While Dead Island offered a good concept nestled in a ropey RPG, Dying Light ironed out the majority of the concept’s problems while improving on the ambition and scope of the project in practically every way. Originally, the Dead Island games were developed by Techland, who have since gone on to bigger and better things with the Dying Light series. The gaming landscape has changed massively in the time between Dead Island 2’s admittedly excellent announcement trailer back in 2014 and now, so the question becomes: is there even a place for Dead Island 2? However, according to a recent Q&A session with the investors at Deep Silver, plans are in place to release Dead Island 2 within the next year, which is nothing short of a remarkable turn-around for gaming’s abominable snowman. There was the leaked build from a few years ago, but aside from that, any evidence to suggest Dead Island 2 is still happening has been thin on the ground. It’s not been cancelled, but there’s been no new official trailers or gameplay footage. After the huge success of Dead Island and the ho-hum reception to follow-up expansion Riptide in the early 2010s, a proper sequel was announced in 2014, but ever since, the project has been in a weird state of limbo. Of course, the game famously did launch after over a decade, but the end result couldn’t live up to the hype.Ī more recent white whale is Dead Island 2. Since then, over the last eight years, the game has been in development limbo with it moving from developer Techland to Yager Development as Techland chose to focus on Dying Light instead, and then from Yager to Dambuster after Yager and Deep Silver parted ways over creative differences.Gaming has suffered through its fair share of white whales over the years, with perhaps one of the most notable being Duke Nukem Forever, aptly named after how long it felt like people waited for its release.
It’s been a very long time since GameRevolution first previewed Dead Island 2 in 2014 when we said that the release date would be spring 2015. According to Henderson, the game begins with you fighting off a zombie outbreak on a plane, surviving the crash that ensues, and then having to survive on the ground in the middle of Hollywood. The last rumor about the Dead Island 2 release date came from industry insider Tom Henderson, who said that he had sources familiar with Dambuster Studios who expect the game to release in Q4 2022, with a chance of slipping into 2023. I have heard from a source that I trust that the game may be fully revealed sometime this summer and released maybe shortly after that, maybe September of October at the soonest.” “Dead Island 2 looks like it’s going to be re-revealed. That said, podcast host Colin Moriarty on his April 4 episode of Sacred Symbols believes that Dead Island 2 might be unveiled as early as this summer according to an anonymous source:
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