Remember Dead Island 2? The stuck-in-limbo zombie action game that’s gone through at least three studios now. Well, apparently, there’s an build of it floating somewhere now, and there are screens to back it up!
Over on Twitter, GarnetSunset posted that “Dead Island 2 just leaked,” and pointed out that “its (sic) out there,” though this is from a 2015 build of the game.
https://twitter.com/GarnetSunset/status/1268995721287675904
https://twitter.com/GarnetSunset/status/1269002802728230913
https://twitter.com/JHarrdington/status/1268988453527498752
While the original Dead Island was developed by Techland, that studio decided to developed its own zombie action game in Dying Light. Dead Island 2 was announced back in 2014, and was originally being developed by Yager Development (Spec Ops: The Line) until Sumo Digital (Team Sonic Racing) took over in 2016. Unfortunately, the studio wasn’t able to finish it, and since 2019, it’s been tasked to Dambuster Studios (Homefront: The Revolution), and we haven’t heard any new details from publisher Deep Silver about it.
We’ve reached out to publisher Deep Silver to seek a statement on this leak, and will update the post if we hear anything back.
Are you still looking forward to Dead Island 2? What do you hope to see from it that would make it stand out from the crowded zombie genre? Let us know your thoughts below.
Send kinda ambitious for current gen maybe?
Nobody is planning anything for current gen. If it doesn’t have a release date set within the next couple of months its not coming out on PS4 or X1….Not with PS5 and SeX coming this year.
I hope they do a good job with it, I enjoyed the first one, but the writing was terrible, the world was busted up into zones, and combat was just okay. It seems like the tone is still going to be more Saint’s Row than serious, but as long as the rest of the game and it’s world have improved, I’m okay with that.
Bit burnt out on zombie stuff. That mid 10s craze really killed the idea for me and plenty of other consumers. With virtually all zombie related products.