The gameplay footage that was given a stage demo featured a number of real world locations including California and Hollywood. At Gamescom 2014 in Cologne Germany, the silence was broken when an early build of the game was shown off by Deep Silver. It did however portray the Dead Island series in a more over the top and colourful light than previous builds of the game.įollowing the reveal trailer, Dead Island 2 went quiet for a while. When Sony took to the stage for their press conference for E3 2014, they officially announced the game and showed a reveal trailer that (while very impressive visually) showed no gameplay. At some in summer of 2012, German developers Yager Development pitched Dead Island 2 to Deep Silver and they impressed upon them so well that they got a deal. But Techland decided to focus their efforts elsewhere and instead directed their attention onto their upcoming game, Dying Light which is being developed with Warner Bros Interactive and is also a first person role playing game with action horror elements.įollowing the departure of Techland, Deep Silver went on the search for a new developer to tackle their first person Zombie slaying series. The game will be made available at retail upon its release and via digital download via the appropriate online market place.ĭeep Silver originally had the developers of Dead Island and Dead Island Riptide lined up to develop Dead Island 2. Whilst no concrete release date is in place yet, the game is scheduled for release at some time in spring of 2015 on Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows PC’s. In keeping with this, the game is being developed on the powerful Unreal Engine 4. Most likely due to Deep Silvers want of staying on top of the game (so to speak) and keeping modern. The game is being developed to launch on multiple systems, but the title is being worked on primarily as an 8th generation game and it’s unlikely to ever see a 7th generation build or port. The game is also set to be published by the series owners, the industry renowned Deep Silver. Dead Island 2 is an upcoming stylised first person shooter, role playing game with action and horror elements that is currently in development by the German based studio, Yager Development, the same team that developed that massively well received sleeper hit war drama shooter, Spec Ops: The Line.

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