↑ "Dead Island 2 is still alive, Deep Silver insists"."Sumo Digital takes over Dead Island 2 development". It's just the Dead Island 2 bit that's shut down". "Dead Island 2 is no longer being made by Yager". "Deep Silver Drops Yager As Developer Of Dead Island 2". "Dead Island 2 has opt-out 8-player multiplayer". ↑ "New developer Yager reveals what it calls "the smallest MMO in the world.""."Dead Island 2 announced, planned for Spring 2015". ↑ "Dead Island 2- Official E3 Announce Trailer | PS4"."People are playing a five-year-old build of Dead Island 2". "California Dreamin': Dead Island 2 embraces the slaughter". ↑ "New Saints Row And Dead Island 2 Are Not Planned Until After March 2021"."How Dead Island 2 pushed Unreal Engine 4 beyond its early limits".
In 2022, a trailer for the sequel to Goat Simulator, intentionally referred to as Goat Simulator 3 (skipping the number 2), used elements from an early Dead Island 2 trailer as a bait-and-switch before revealing the titular goats. Ī 2015 playable version of the still-under-development game while at Yager was leaked in June 2020. In August 2019, THQ Nordic announced that development of the game had changed hands to Dambuster Studios, an internal studio of Deep Silver. In August 2017, Deep Silver reiterated that the game was still in development, making a similar statement again in July 2018. In March 2016, UK-based studio Sumo Digital announced that it had taken over the development. Yager Productions filed for insolvency in July 2015. The managing director of Yager Development, Timo Ullmann, later stated that the company's departure from the project occurred because "Yager and Deep Silver's respective visions of the project fell out of alignment". In July 2015, Deep Silver announced that Yager has been dropped from developing the game and development would be moved to another unnamed developer. It will also feature eight-player cooperative multiplayer. Furthermore, Deep Silver stated that the game will feature four playable characters, though only two were shown at the Gamescom Demo. Similarly, only a fraction of the weapon modifications and the new zombies have been shown at the stage. According to the presented content, the game is set in California, including landmarks such as the Santa Monica Pier and Hollywood, as well as many locations in San Francisco. Īt Gamescom 2014, Deep Silver demonstrated gameplay footage from an early version of the game. The game was originally scheduled for a Q2 2015 release. As announced at Sony's E3 2014 media briefing, Dead Island 2 will be more vibrant than its predecessors. Yager established a new division, Yager Productions GmbH, for development of Dead Island 2. Deep Silver went looking for a developer until Yager Development pitched the game to Deep Silver in Q3 2012 and got the deal. Techland was originally set to develop Dead Island 2, but instead they decided to focus on developing Dying Light with Warner Bros.
Dead Island 2 also includes several features from its predecessors, such as the "rage" and crafting systems.Ī couple of months after the events of Dead Island, the United States Armed Forces has put California under a full quarantine restricted zone due to a new and stronger zombie outbreak. The game's combat has different mechanics than its predecessors. ĭead Island 2 takes place in an open-world Los Angeles, San Francisco, and an undisclosed third location in California, unlike the first game which was set on the fictitious island of Banoi off the coast of Papua New Guinea. Sumo Digital would also be removed, with Dambuster, an internal studio of Deep Silver, becoming the developers in 2019. Yager Development was originally hired to develop Dead Island 2 in 2012, but was removed from the project in 2015 and replaced by Sumo Digital the following year. Īnnounced in 2014, the game has undergone a difficult development period due to multiple changes with the studios working on it.
Set several months after the events of Dead Island and Dead Island, Dead Island 2 differentiates itself from its predecessors by taking place in various locations in California. Set to release for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, it is the sequel to the 2011 video game Dead Island and the third major installment in the Dead Island series. Dead Island 2 is an upcoming action role-playing game developed by Dambuster Studios and published by Deep Silver.