Dead Island 2

So, what have we been up to? In 2018 Deep Silver Dambuster Studios started development on Dead Island 2, focusing on a pulp horror zombie experience – in your ...

To compliment the gore we have an huge arsenal of upgradable melee and ranged weapons, an in depth and highly customizable skill card system, allowing players to truly customize their play style, and this all exists within a chaotic and bloody combat sandbox! Firstly, Dead Island is known for its fantastic Paradise Gone to Hell setting, and our zompocalypse takes place in none other than the City of Angels. We wanted our global announcement to go hand-in-hand with an awesome demo and we’re delighted that press around the world are getting their hands on the beta build of the game at Gamescom.

Although listings on Amazon are sparse with details on how the feature will work with the game, it's expected that you'll be able to interact with non-playable ...

It’s worth noting that, at this stage, Alexa Game Control is compatible only with PC and Xbox consoles with no current word on whether it’ll make its way to PlayStation platforms. [RELATED: DEAD ISLAND 2 HANDS-ON PREVIEW – IT’S REALLY BLOODY GOOD](https://press-start.com.au/previews/2022/08/24/dead-island-2-preview-its-really-bloody-good/) [the re-reveal of Dead Island 2](https://press-start.com.au/news/playstation/2022/08/24/dead-island-2-has-been-re-revealed-alongside-another-epic-trailer/) is that the game is going to be the first to support Alexa Game Control, which will allow players to control certain elements of the game using just their voice.

Eight years later, Dead Island 2 has made its triumphant return to Gamescom. The beleaguered zombie RPG showcased a fancy new CGI trailer and a sizzle.

By 2019, parent company THQ Nordic (now one of the many facers of Embracer) announced Dambuster Studios would finish the game with one of Deep Silver’s internal studios while new alpha builds started leaking online. In 2015 publisher Deep Silver dropped the Spec Ops: The Line studio over conflicting visions, and enlisted Sumo Digital in the UK. According to the game’s developers these are “larger than life” characters with “unique” dialogue that showcases the game’s “pulpy” and “irreverent” tone. [Dead Island in 2011](https://kotaku.com/dead-island-the-kotaku-review-5841009) was made by Techland. I have no idea whether Dead Island 2 will be any good, and at this point that almost feels beside the point. [back at E3 2014](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWFaj4IQ4ro) with a CGI trailer showing a man jogging obliviously while everyone behind him is eaten alive by zombies.

At Gamescom, Deep Silver confirmed that Dambuster Studio's version of Dead Island 2 has a release date of Feb. 3, 2023, on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation.

Keeping Dead Island 2’s feet on the ground and keeping it simple might be the best way to move on from its difficult past. There will be more expansive areas with side-quests to take on, but the main thrust of the game will be a linear push through L.A., street by ravaged street. There it stayed, and Dambuster’s is the version of this game that will be released, and that Polygon had the chance to play at an event in London earlier this month. The flavor of Dead Island 2 comes from combining these skills with some useful ranged attacks — I used Molotov cocktails — and with the game’s large and varied range of craftable and customizable weapons. The characters are all infected with the zombie virus, but immune, and able to channel their mutation through bursts of a zombified rage mode, as well as through a skill tree that develops and personalizes their abilities. On the character I tried, Amy, this signature attack could be switched between a defensive ground pound that repelled enemies, and an aggressive dash attack to swiftly bring Amy into melee range. The demo that I played was set on the Santa Monica pier, where fairly tight, confined environments with warrens of cover worked well with the heavy-hitting combat. Tree is the wrong word for it, actually: Skills are presented as a deck of cards and can be swapped around at will once they’ve been unlocked, in a very free-form loadout-building process. After Techland, maker of the original Dead Island and its stand-alone expansion Riptide, decided to follow its own path with the Dying Light series, Deep Silver started shopping for new studios to make a sequel. The team, based in Nottingham in the English Midlands, took the Californian setting established by Yager, threw out everything else, and started building Dead Island 2 completely from scratch. [leak was accurate](https://www.polygon.com/23311280/dead-island-2-release-date-leaked-amazon-listing-gamescom): [Dead Island 2](https://www.polygon.com/game/dead-island-2/37462) is back in the spotlight after a famously lengthy and troubled development. In 2019, Deep Silver announced that development had been switched to an internal team: Dambuster Studios (Homefront: The Revolution).

The long-awaited game has run out of Steam - so to speak.

Those visuals made possible in part because the game does not feature a full open world, though it will give you plenty of opportunities to explore and take on side quests. If you've been waiting for Dead Island 2 since that first 2014 reveal, you've probably developed more than enough patience to last another year by now. Pre-orders are live on the

Eight years since the last trailer, 'Dead Island 2' has been re-revealed alongside its release date and in-game footage.

[PS5](https://www.nme.com/tag/ps5), [Xbox Series X S](https://www.nme.com/tag/xbox-series-xs) and [PC](https://www.nme.com/tag/pc) via the [Epic Games Store](https://www.nme.com/brands/epic-games-store). “With plenty of weapons and brutally tactical options to chew your way through the zombie horde. Whether you’re slicing, smashing, burning or ripping, we want you to truly feel it.” The sequel will also continue to be a first-person title with both melee-based and shooting combat. [Deep Silver](https://www.nme.com/brands/deep-silver).

The gameplay and cinematic trailers show a completely rebuilt game.

Jacob, who seems to be infected as well but not zombified, uses a hand-crafted rifle-bat-axe to kill zombies initially, and later on, uses a katana to slash the undead. The new trailers Dambuster Studios showed at Gamescom also revealed Jacob, one of the game’s six playable characters, as well as some of the game’s mechanics and how combat will be. Dead Island 2 was to be developed by the Polish gaming giant Techland, but one thing lead to another, and Yager Productions landed on the project, for a while.

The release date for the sequel to the widely popular Dead Island is set for Feb. 3 2023 and is sure to grant Xbox, PlayStation, and PC gamers all the carnage ...

This rockstar-looking zombie slayer is featured on the Dead Island 2 front cover. In the action, his bloodshot eyes either highlighted his zombie infection (unlikely considering he’s the cover-man) or more likely his party-boy style and attitude. 3 2023 and is sure to grant Xbox, PlayStation, and PC gamers all the carnage they could possibly desire.

It's set to release for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC on February 3. It will come in several editions, and they're all up for preorder now at all ...

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After a long, long wait, Dead Island 2 is finally releasing next February: The leak that appeared on Amazon last week has been made official by a new ...

Along with solo play, Dead Island 2 will also support co-op action for up to three players. "Dead Island 2's gameplay is all about experimenting with your preferred zombie-slaying methods, just kind of going nuts," lead narrative designer Khan explained on the ONL stage. The cinematic reveal trailer features Jacob, one of six characters who will be playable in Dead Island 2.

Play with any microphone or headset, no Alexa device required. And Alexa is still there to make sure you can stay in the game with smart home control, reminders ...

Although Alexa Game Control is being touted as something brand new, Dead Island 2 won't be the first zombie game out there to include voice controls that allow you to distract zombies. [According to an Amazon developer blog post](https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/blogs/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/2022/08/alexa-game-control-august-2022.html?ascsubtag=[]vg[p]23082912[t]w[r]google.com[d]D), Dead Island 2 will allow players to "use their voice to access in-game features like navigation (by saying “where is the nearest workbench,”) manipulate zombie hordes (by saying “hey zombie”) and much more". [Dead Island 2 was finally re-revealed during Gamescom Opening Night Live](https://www.thegamer.com/dead-island-2-trailer-shown-gamescom/) with a CG trailer and a gameplay trailer.

Dead Island 2's Gamescom 2022 appearance treated viewers to a new trailer and a release date for the game, but we also learned of an interesting feature ...

A couple of examples for how this'll be used were shared with Amazon saying that players can say things like "hey zombie" to "manipulate zombie hoards." "Gamers will enjoy a more immersive gaming experience by using their voice to goad zombies, ask for help, activate special abilities during combat, and more, without having to say 'Alexa,' use an Echo device, or purchase any special hardware." Aside from that function, the voice control capabilities can also be used by players to get help navigating towards objectives or resources.

Announced as a part of Gamescom 2022, the long-awaited zombie RPG Dead Island 2 is official, and it's coming to Google Stadia. Releasing on February 3, ...

Dead Island 2 was first announced all the way back in 2014 but has been delayed countless times over studio sales and various other issues. Slice, pulverise and smash your way through the horror-soaked streets of the city of Angels, dispatching the undead who get in your way. The game takes place in Los Angeles and features six playable characters as a follow-up to the 2011 hit, Dead Island.