The unique Dead Island 2 reveal trailer is now an iconic (maybe notorious) second in video games. It was an awesome trailer, individuals had been excited, after which quick ahead almost a decade later, and the sport remains to be in growth.
First revealed again in 2014, Dead Island 2 was in growth at Spec Ops: The Line developer Yager, with Dead Island developer Techland having parted methods with the property to work on Dying Light. Publisher Deep Silver handed over growth of the sport to LittleBigPlanet 3 developer Sumo Digital in 2016, after which, in 2019, the corporate introduced that Homefront: The Revolution developer Dambuster Studios could be growing Dead Island 2. It’s now 2023 and Dambuster’s Dead Island 2 is due out in April, lastly.
Dambuster revealed its new Dead Island 2 final 12 months and it did so with a elaborate new cinematic trailer, albeit one very totally different from the unique 2014 reveal. This is not essentially stunning – Dambuster says it has developed Dead Island 2 from a clear slate, from the bottom up. During my cowl story journey to play 8 hours of Dead Island 2 at Dambuster’s Nottingham, England, location, I used to be curious: did the group ever take into account remaking the unique Dead Island 2 trailer? The reply was no.
“It wasn’t really on our radar to redo the trailer,” Dead Island 2 recreation director David Stenton tells me. (*2*)
Still, although, I questioned if Dambuster used that unique trailer as a guiding gentle for the sport’s growth, particularly given how well-received it was in 2014 (even Goat Simulator 3 lately remade the trailer).
“Not really,” Stenton says. “We started with a clean slate, absolutely with our own vision. We’re not looking too much at… what happened in the past or looking at too many other games out there. We’re just really focused on how do we want to make Dead Island 2 absolutely phenomenal, bring it up to date, and deliver a game that we think fans will really enjoy.”
For extra in regards to the recreation, learn my Dead Island cowl story right here after which head to Game Informer’s Dead Island 2 unique protection hub for tales you’ll be able to’t discover wherever else, like why the sport is ready in a metropolis that is not an island, detailed breakdowns of two of Dead Island 2’s survivors, Dani and Ryan, and the way weapon sturdiness is a helpful instrument for Dambuster Studios.
You’ll additionally discover unique gameplay in movies like this one about how Dambuster Studios information the sounds of zombie guts in Dead Island 2 and new particulars about our hands-on time within the Dead Island 2 cowl story dialogue episode of The Game Informer Show.
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