![]() After all, the best parts of zombie fiction are how they reflect the ugliness of society back onto us, so here’s hoping there’s some thematic substance here. The ‘paradise’ this time, however, is the real-world city of Los Angeles, with all of its first-world urban glitz and glamour – though hopefully the less glamorous side of the city and its culture is explored in some respect, too. It extrapolates on the ‘trouble in paradise’ motif of the first Dead Island, which revolved around a zombie outbreak that took place on a tropical island resort. ![]() This latest iteration of Dead Island 2 has apparently been in development since 2018. There is a lot more to this franchise than its missions, but still, it was fun to hit a bunch of zombies with silly melee weapons. It was an impressive showing of some of the game’s core combat ideas and environmental designs – though for a game of Dead Island’s ambition and scope, it’d be disingenuous to say this demo was a good indication of how this previously missing-in-action open-world title is shaping up as a whole. It might really happen this time.Īt a recent PLAION showcase, we played a very well-put-together vertical slice of Dead Island 2 that showcased a relatively brief, mid-game mission that featured a fight against a few different zombie groups, a few objectives to complete, and a boss fight against a killer zombie clown. ![]() Finally re-revealed during Gamescom 2022, Dead Island 2 is now slated for release on 3 February 2023. First announced in 2014 with a CGI trailer, as the sequel to one of the more notable zombie games of the 2010s – of which there were several – the game spent several years in development hell, changing hands multiple times. ![]()
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