Seven years is a long time, and it’s almost certainly going to be even longer for Dead Island 2 to actually come out - if it does at all. It seems that the Dead Island franchise is now paying the price for making everyone cry from a misleading yet still incredible trailer as it’s hard to shake the feeling that the whole thing is cursed, even if Escape Dead Island is enough suffering for one series.
Considering it was first unveiled over years ago now, we have very little to go off, save for some early gameplay trailer footage that’s now redundant, as well as a leaked gameplay slice in 2020 from its original developers that is outdated by at least half a decade.ĭead Island 2 has had three different developers, starting off with Yager before they were removed by Deep Silver in 2015, then Sumo Digital from March 2016 until 2019 when it was revealed that Dambuster of Homefront: The Revolution infamy were assigned the unenviable task of making Dead Island 2 instead.ĭead Island 2’s development has been so protracted, in fact, that this very site was barely a thing when it was first revealed, us covering its trailer being reversed like the classic trailer for the first Dead Island.
Since being revealed in 2014 at Sony’s E3 briefing, Dead Island 2 has remained one of the biggest enigmas in all of gaming.
