"Our Yager team is fully committed to the development of AAA quality titles," Yager boss Timo Ullmann said when it was revealed its Dead Island 2 was cancelled. Three locations, a raft of characters and classes as well as online co-op functionality are all included, although the latter is disabled. Still, it's interesting to see the game Yager was working on just a month before the project fell apart. While this build of Dead Island 2 is very much playable, it's unlikely to resemble the Dead Island 2 that will be officially released. "It's a great story to tell everyone that it's on its third studio, but we like to be judged on the end result and we're really confident that when it comes out it's going to be a kick-ass zombie game. It's just a testimony of our dedication to get it right. "Look, Dead Island is a very important brand for us and we've got to get it right.
#Dead island 2 release date update
"My favourite question," Kundratitz said when our friends at asked for an update on the beleaguered zombie sequel.
But in April 2015 it was delayed to 2016, suggesting major problems were afoot.ĭead Island 2 is still without a release date, but Koch Media boss Klemens Kundratitz recently insisted it was still important for the company. It was playable by press at events throughout the second half of 2014, at a time when the game was due out spring 2015.
What we'd seen of Dead Island 2 showed it as colourful and crazy - an eight-player multiplayer zombie riot in sunny LA. It was first announced at E3 2014 with an eye-catching trailer that, well, is certainly quite the watch today. Then, in August 2019, Deep Silver announced it had brought development in-house at Homefront: The Revolution maker Dambuster Studios.ĭead Island 2 has been in the works for quite some time, then, and has clearly suffered a rocky development as it's shifted between three studios. In March 2016, Deep Silver announced UK studio Sumo Digital had taken on Dead Island 2. Footage from it is popping up all over YouTube:Įurogamer has verified this build is the work of Spec Ops: The Line maker Yager, which was tasked by publisher Deep Silver with making the zombie sequel before both parties split amid creative differences in July 2015. The build, which reportedly emerged on the V board of 4Chan, is playable, although there are placeholder assets throughout. If all goes well, we should have a new look at the game and a release date later this year.People are downloading and playing a five-year-old build of Dead Island 2. KitGuru Says: Dead Island 2 has had a turbulent development cycle, but it looks like there is light at the end of the tunnel. With E3 2022 cancelled, we don't know where Dead Island 2 will show up next, but my money is going to be on Geoff Keighley's upcoming E3 replacement show, Summer Games Fest, which is taking place in June. With that said, it is also worth noting that while Q4 2022 might be an internal goal at the studio, it is entirely possible that the game slips into the first half of 2023, whether for additional development work, or to avoid other major holiday titles to ensure higher sales. Embracer Group, Deep Silver's parent company, recently informed investors that the game is planned to release in the current fiscal year, placing the release date anywhere between April 2022 and March 2023.Īccording to Colin Moriarty on the Sacred Symbols Podcast, Dead Island 2 may be heading towards a Q4 2022 release, with a new unveiling taking place this summer. Then, in 2019, development changed hands again, going to Deep Silver’s internal Dambuster Studio. Originally revealed back in 2014, Dead Island 2 was originally being created by Yager Development, but due to various issues, publisher Deep Silver eventually transferred the project to Sumo Digital. In recent months, we've heard that the game is planned to launch in the current fiscal year, and new reports claim the game's re-announcement and release are closer than we may think. It has been eight years since Dead Island 2 was first announced and several years since the last update on the game’s development, at which point the game underwent another reboot at a new studio.
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