The Dead Island 2 development cycle has not been a pleasant experience for those involved, according to multiple news pieces reported across the project's lifespan of more than a decade. A streamer identifying as Lucas Cosmico is reported to have played a pre-release version of Dead Island 2 last night, and proceeded to stream the opening moments of the single player campaign - 30 minutes of gameplay footage is still accessible on their YouTube channel at the time of writing, but potential legal action is likely to result in a takedown order.

The uptick in marketing efforts has gained some gaming community attention, but leaked gameplay footage was uploaded to YouTube only hours before the debuting of the official launch video. A launch trailer was uploaded to the game's official YouTube channel this afternoon, in hope of generating more pre-release internet interest. Though originally slated to release on February 3, 2023, it shall now launch on April 28, for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (Epic Games Store only).Deep Silver's intended hype train, has been derailed slightly today, for its forthcoming zombie splattering blockbuster ARPG shooter Dead Island 2. The game was recently delayed, yet again. The game was first announced in 2014, and after going through the hands of three different studios, it finally landed at Dambuster Studios. Yes, you the player can turn into a zombie at certain points, and you seemingly go into a powerful frenzy mode where you can tear down enemy zombies quickly with your claws.ĭead Island 2 has suffered through a famously troubled development cycle. There look to be a lot of distinct kill animations that show the player killing zombies in particularly gory ways.įinally, they revealed zombie gameplay. The game will certainly be appealing to fans of gore, as it doesn't seem to be holding anything back.

These seem to have additional damaging effects on enemies, like electrocuting them, or setting them on fire. There was a short tease for craftable weapons as well.

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