Dead Island 2 was to be developed by the Polish gaming giant Techland, but one thing lead to another, and Yager Productions landed on the project, for a while. The game changed hands again and UK-based Sumo Digital started working on Dead Island 2, for a while. The publisher Deep Silver eventually decided to pass the game to Dambuster Studios, one of its internal studios.
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A cinematic trailer and a gameplay trailer were revealed at Gamescom 2022, roughly ten years later since Dead Island 2’s development began (and eight years since the first trailer was shown), alongside a release date that hopefully won’t be pushed back any further. Dead Island 2 is set to be released on February 3, 2023, on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Series S.
The new trailers Dambuster Studios showed at Gamescom also revealed Jacob, one of the game’s six playable characters, as well as some of the game’s mechanics and how combat will be. The trailer follows Jacob’s quest to get to the store while bashing the heads of countless zombies along the way through the streets of Los Angeles.
Jacob, who seems to be infected as well but not zombified, uses a hand-crafted rifle-bat-axe to kill zombies initially, and later on, uses a katana to slash the undead. Dambuster Studios pretty much revamped the whole gameplay —as expected, considering how the game is ages old now— and from the look of it, the game actually seems even more gore-looking.
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