Sure, playing as Sam B and punching zombies in the head is cool and all, but grapple hooks and dropkicks are better in every way.
While Dead Island offered a good concept nestled in a ropey RPG, Dying Light ironed out the majority of the concept’s problems while improving on the ambition and scope of the project in practically every way.
Originally, the Dead Island games were developed by Techland, who have since gone on to bigger and better things with the Dying Light series. The gaming landscape has changed massively in the time between Dead Island 2’s admittedly excellent announcement trailer back in 2014 and now, so the question becomes: is there even a place for Dead Island 2? However, according to a recent Q&A session with the investors at Deep Silver, plans are in place to release Dead Island 2 within the next year, which is nothing short of a remarkable turn-around for gaming’s abominable snowman. There was the leaked build from a few years ago, but aside from that, any evidence to suggest Dead Island 2 is still happening has been thin on the ground. It’s not been cancelled, but there’s been no new official trailers or gameplay footage. After the huge success of Dead Island and the ho-hum reception to follow-up expansion Riptide in the early 2010s, a proper sequel was announced in 2014, but ever since, the project has been in a weird state of limbo. Of course, the game famously did launch after over a decade, but the end result couldn’t live up to the hype.Ī more recent white whale is Dead Island 2. Gaming has suffered through its fair share of white whales over the years, with perhaps one of the most notable being Duke Nukem Forever, aptly named after how long it felt like people waited for its release.
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