Eight years later, Dead Island 2 has made its triumphant instrumentality to Gamescom. The beleaguered zombie RPG showcased a fancy caller CGI trailer and a sizzle reel of characters smashing zombies similar Gallagher going to municipality connected a pallet of rotting watermelons. It comes retired connected February 3, 2023, astir precisely a twelvemonth aft 2022's large gruesome zombie RPG. Are you ready?

Dead Island 2's latest trailer showed disconnected Jacob, 1 of six playable zombie-slayers. According to the game’s developers these are “larger than life” characters with “unique” dialog that showcases the game’s “pulpy” and “irreverent” tone. It besides sports a co-op campaign, bigger map, and much analyzable dismemberment strategy than its predecessors. But if you asked maine to fig retired what sets the cursed task isolated from different zombie games extracurricular of its sun-soaked rendition of Venice Beach, I wouldn’t person a clue.

I person nary thought whether Dead Island 2 volition beryllium immoderate good, and astatine this constituent that astir feels beside the point. It’s transcended the particulars of its sub-genre to go axenic video crippled manufacture spectacle, similar Duke Nukem Forever and a fistful of different projects that were birthed successful 1 epoch and clawed their mode done years of improvement hellhole into another.

The crippled was infamously revealed back astatine E3 2014 with a CGI trailer showing a antheral jogging obliviously portion everyone down him is eaten live by zombies. A little gameplay trailer followed at Gamescom that summer which showed fundamentally what we saw today, albeit overmuch little beauteous looking. Then the crippled disappeared. The archetypal uncover trailer has been viewed connected YouTube implicit 24 cardinal times. The apical remark with implicit 50,000 likes reads, “I was 12 erstwhile this trailer came out. I’m 43 now.” That was 3 years ago.

The archetypal Dead Island successful 2011 was made by Techland. The Polish workplace was expected to marque the sequel but ended up making parkour zombie deed Dying Light instead. Then Yager Development got involved. In 2015 steadfast Deep Silver dropped the Spec Ops: The Line studio implicit conflicting visions, and enlisted Sumo Digital successful the UK. That didn’t enactment either. By 2019, genitor institution THQ Nordic (now 1 of the galore facers of Embracer) announced Dambuster Studios would decorativeness the crippled with 1 of Deep Silver’s interior studios portion caller alpha builds started leaking online.

And present present we are. Dying Light 2 released successful February and was...fine. Whether Dead Island 2 is better, worse, oregon conscionable different fleshy hack-fest, it volition surely beryllium remembered arsenic that crippled they refused to conscionable fto die.