The game was announced to be in development by Yager, as the original Dead Island studio, Techland, had moved on to begin working on Dying Light. Now Playing: Dead Island 2 Trailer | Gamescom ONL 2022 Dead Island 2 studio shake-ups and timelineĢ014-15: While some of the game's way of being passed around to different studios may have happened behind closed doors, publicly we know of several changes since its announcement in 2014.

You'll also find exclusive gameplay in videos like this one about how Dambuster Studios records the sounds of zombie guts in Dead Island 2 and new details about our hands-on time in the Dead Island 2 cover story discussion episode of The Game Informer Show.By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's We're just really focused on how do we want to make Dead Island 2 absolutely phenomenal, bring it up to date, and deliver a game that we think fans will really enjoy.'įor more about the game, read my Dead Island cover story here and then head to Game Informer's Dead Island 2 exclusive coverage hub for stories you can't find anywhere else, like why the game is set in a city that isn't an island, detailed breakdowns of two of Dead Island 2's survivors, Dani and Ryan, and how weapon durability is a useful instrument for Dambuster Studios. what happened in the past or looking at too many other games out there. 'We started with a clean slate, absolutely with our own vision. Still, though, I wondered if Dambuster used that original trailer as a guiding light for the game's development, especially given how well-received it was in 2014 ( even Goat Simulator 3 recently remade the trailer). That trailer definitely delivered on the postcard LA and I think we deliver on postcard LA in a different way.' 'I think it's fun to sort of take that trailer – especially now the location of the trailer – and see how it applies to the tone of the Dead Island that we're delivering.

'It wasn't really on our radar to redo the trailer,' Dead Island 2 game director David Stenton tells me. During my cover story trip to play 8 hours of Dead Island 2 at Dambuster's Nottingham, England, location, I was curious: did the team ever consider remaking the original Dead Island 2 trailer? The answer was no. This isn't necessarily surprising – Dambuster says it has developed Dead Island 2 from a clean slate, from the ground up. Dambuster revealed its new Dead Island 2 last year and it did so with a fancy new cinematic trailer, albeit one very different from the original 2014 reveal.

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