Dead Island 2 is a survival horror action role-playing video game developed by Sumo. There doesn't seem to be much hype, or even demand, behind Dead Island 2 either. When there is no more room in development hell, Dead Island 2 will walk the Earth. Gamerroof began out as a Gaming News internet site based in 2019.
The original Dead Island was released back in 2011, and it was met with a lukewarm critical reception. After the studio moved on to new projects – including Dead Island spiritual successor, Dying Light – Deep Silver handed the property off to Yager Development, the developer behind Spec Ops: The Line.Įverything seemed to be coming along nicely until it was revealed in July 2015 that Deep Silver had fired Yager due to creative differences: “The team worked with enthusiasm to take Dead Island 2 to a new level of quality,” Yager CEO Timo Ullman said in a statement. Dead Island 2 may be one of those cases of a game arriving far too late. The original Dead Island was released in 2011 by developer Techland.
As you can tell, Dead Island 2 is having quite a bit of development trouble. Then Sumo got axed and Dambusters took over in 2019. This is the extent of the information we’ve received regarding the existence of the sequel. According to Eurogamer, this version of Dead Island 2 is from June of 2015, which was right before publisher Deep Silver fired them and handed over development to Sumo Digital. “When we are ready to share more information, we will.” You can follow him on Twitter.“ Dead Island 2 is in development at Sumo Digital, and we are excited by the progress the team are making with Deep Silver’s most successful IP,” Deep Silver said in that statement.
Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer. Army of the Dead 2 has received an official title Planet of the Dead just as Zack Snyder's Netflix universe expands with prequel movie Army of Thieves. Hopefully the end result will be as interesting as the story of its journey to release. Sumo Digital would also be removed, with Dambuster, an internal studio of Deep Silver, becoming the developers in 2019. The development of Dead Island 2 has, at least from an outsider’s perspective, been a long and difficult one. Since then, Techland - the developers of the original Dead Island - have released Dying Light, a sort of spiritual successor to Dead Island, and almost completed development on Dying Light 2, which will launch next year. This is the third developer associated with the project it was originally in development at Spec Ops: The Line studio Yager from 2012 to 2016, before it was passed on to Sumo Digital.ĭead Island 2, first announced at E3 2014, was originally scheduled to launch in 2015.
The company offered no indication as to if the progress they achieved on Dead Island 2, which it worked on between 20, will be transferred over to Dambuster Studios, or if the new developer will be starting from scratch.ĭambuster Studios’ new position as Dead Island 2 developer was announced earlier today by publisher THQ Nordic. The UK-based studio also confirmed that “Sumo has concluded work on Dead Island 2,” rather than working as a support studio alongside new lead developer Dambuster Studios.