The events of this game occur some months later after the events of Dead Island (the first game in the Dead Island franchise). The game takes place in the city of Los Angeles or LA (dubbed in the game as HELL-A), the city of San Francisco, along with a third unknown location in California, which has been severely affected by a Zombie Outbreak. Dead Island 2 Gameplay & Plot Dead Island 2 Zombie Finally, Dambuster Studios completed the development of the game. In August 2019 another announcement was made which stated that the development of the game has been handed to Dambuster Studios (the internal studio of Deep Silver). Sumo Digital worked on the project until the start of 2019. Later after losing the developing rights, Yager Productions GmbH filed for insolvency. Later, Yager Development got the deal to develop Dead Island 2, they established a sub-studio Yager Productions GmbH specifically for the development of the game.Īfter 3 years of development, Deep Silver cut ties with Yager and the project was re-assigned to Sumo Digital. In 2012, Deep Silver, the publishing company, tasked Techland with the development of the game, but Techland decided to work on another survival horror video game named Dying Light. The Dead Island 2 Released on 21 April 2023, so not much time is left considering the initial announcement of the game that was made back in 2014. Now, the long wait for the much-awaited game is over and we finally have a release date.

The developers also stated the reasons for the late that have been caused in the release of the game.

Dead Island 2 Release DateĪt Gamescom 2022, along with the release of the official trailers, one character out of six playable characters was also revealed. Two official trailers of the game were unveiled, you can watch one of the trailers here. It is a survival horror RPG and is speculated to be much better than its predecessors – Dead Island and Dead Island: Riptide. Dead Island 2 will be the third main instalment of the Dead Island video game series. At Gamescom 2022, the Dead Island 2 release date of the much-awaited game was announced.

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