Dead Island 2 Will Reportedly Reappear This Year
screenrant.comZombie titleDead Island 2 is reportedly due to be re-revealed later this year. The sequel to Techland's Dead Island and Dead Island: Riptide was initially announced eight years ago at E3, but due to its rocky development, Dead Island 2 has long lay dormant.
When the first Dead Island launched, many fans were surprised by its tone and gameplay after the title's marketing, which featured a somber trailer more akin to a short film surrounding a family's last moments at the doomed, zombie-infested resort. The title itself was an open-world, first-person action RPG with a major emphasis on melee combat, as players could craft and modify their weapons to survive. Whereas Dead Island: Riptide took a similar marketing approach with a harrowing trailer featuring a couple accepting their fate as zombies descend upon their washed-up boat, the reveal trailer for Dead Island 2 was far livelier in both its visuals and music choices, with a jogger in a California-esque location gradually transforming to a zombie as carnage ensues around him and "The Bomb" by Pigeon John blasts over his earphones. A Dead Island 2 re-reveal has been expected for a while now, with Goat Simulator 3's recent reveal at Summer Game Fest playing with these expectations by parodying Dead Island 2's 2014 trailer almost beat-for-beat, only with more goats and fewer zombies.
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According to industry insider Tom Henderson (via Dualshockers), this re-reveal could come by the end of this year. Henderson cites an anonymous source, who believes that a reveal at The Game Awards in December “would make a lot of sense” and further revealed some information surrounding the title itself. Henderson's source claims
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