With nothing else to go on people started to believe that the game wasn’t coming out, or didn’t care anymore. Since then we have been left with speculation and rumors. They eventually landed on Sumo Digital, and all information on the game went dark. What exactly happened no one knows, but in July 2015 Deep Silver botted Yager Productions. Thinking it would somehow change the way we look at zombie games.Įverything was gravy until Yager Productions had a falling out with the publisher Deep Silver. We also learned that the game was scheduled to drop sometime in 2015, and people were already talking Game of the Year contender. The trailer was shown again at Gamescom 2014 followed by a gameplay demo. It was well received across the board, and the industry was hyped. The Dead Island 2 timeline starts in 2014 when it was shown at the PlayStation press conference. Side quests, skill trees, and other major RPG elements usually saved for other games where present here. That tasked you with exploring a topical resort turned to hell while helping survivors and tackling the island in any order you saw fit. Dead Island was a revouluatiory open world zombie game. In case your memory has gotten a little foggy.

Word on the street is Sumo Digital has been pumping life back into the lifeless project, despite the lack of evidence. The game was left wandering in the void until Sumo Digital found the corpse in March 2017. Yager Productions, the studio behind Spec Ops: The Line, was initially developing the project before the zombie apocalypse became their undoing. Dead Island 2 was first unveiled at E3 2014 and has been dead in the water since then.

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