Eventually, in 2018 Deep Silver announced that Dambuster Studios, an internal Deep Silver team, had taken charge of the development of Dead Island 2. The following year Sumo Digital announced that it had taken up the mantle to develop Dead Island 2. In 2015 Deep Silver announced that Yager and Deep Silver had parted ways from the project. What we got was way different, but overall I did have a lot of fun with it.įast forward to 2014, we got a trailer for Dead Island 2 from Yager Development since Techland was focused on Dying Light. But since seeing their announcement video in 2006, I had this fever-pitch hype for Dead Island. I believe the cinematic trailer we got of the family fighting in the resort room was their nod to what was originally the story. That and the game centering around a family trying to escape the island were also slightly changed. When Dead Island was announced in 2006, Techland, developer of the original Dead Island, showed off this real-time flesh damage video that was eventually cut from the final product.

While I was a big fan of Dead Island from 2011 and its follow-up Dead Island Riptide, my interest in the series goes back much further. Skybound has confirmed in the past that Telltale's The Walking Dead video game series is set within the comic book's universe, and Betrayal appears to follow suit with its art style and branding, though the developers have not stated whether any familiar characters may appear.Over the past few weeks, I have been allowed to play through roughly six hours of the upcoming Dead Island 2. The game's setting will be separate from the Walking Dead television show, which serves as an adaptation of Kirkman and artist Charlie Adlard's original comic book storyline. Related: The Walking Dead: Dead City's Karina Ortiz Talks New York, Survival, and the Power of a Hug Other Ocean CEO Andrew Ayre shared the sentiment, stating that the company's experience in the genre has given them the proper expertise to pair it with Skybound's classic comic book franchise. Robert Kirkman, creator of Image Comics' The Walking Dead and chief creative director for Skybound Entertainment, described the title as a 'fresh and unique take' on social deception gameplay, calling Other Ocean Interactive 'true innovators' of the genre.

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