Despite all this, that sun-soaked, humorous, pulpy vision from the original trailer remains. Rather than continuing its predecessors’ work, Dambuster has built a new version of Dead Island 2 entirely from scratch. While that vision was first put together by Yager Development, and then passed onto Sackboy: A Big Adventure creator Sumo Digital, Dead Island 2 is now in the hands of Dambuster Studios, the folks behind Homefront: The Revolution.

Its current form was finally shown after years of waiting at Gamescom 2022, where it was re-revealed along with its original February 2023 release date.Despite a long absence, Dead Island 2 is still what it originally set out to be: an open-world, co-op, California-set sequel to Techland’s well-received (if incredibly shonky) original. The game’s development later shifted to Sumo Digital, before shifting again to Dambuster in 2019. The game was originally revealed all the way back at E3 2014, with previous developer Yager at the helm. With Dead Island 2 moving up a week, the two games won’t launch on the same day anymore.ĭead Island 2’s development cycle has been turbulent. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor was also recently announced to be delayed to April 28 from its original March 17 release date. Now, players will get their hands on the game a little earlier than expected.

#DeadIsland #SeeYouInHELLA /8Gu28bIcUS- Dead Island February 13, 2023ĭead Island 2 was originally scheduled to be released on February 3, but was later delayed to April 28. Dead Island 2 went gold and it's coming out a week early. See you in HELL-A on April 21, 2023,” revealed the Dead Island official Twitter account.

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