The original Dead Island seemed to get its head turned by that iconic debut trailer. While it was ostensibly a silly co-operative zombie slayer, said first footage gave gamers expectations that the final product could never live up to. Fortunately, the folks over at German developer Yager appear to be setting out their stall much more honestly with Dead Island 2, as this looks like it’s going to be a ridiculous romp in the sun.
And that’s evidenced by the Gamescom 2014 gameplay footage embedded below, which has an almost Bulletstorm-esque appeal to it. Indeed, it seems that rather than thumping the undead with paddles, you’ll instead be able to freeze or fry them. The creative kill mechanic’s nothing new, of course, but it does seem to fit the franchise much better than the semi-serious tone that let the previous entries down.
The title will be playable in Germany all next week – a first for the series – so expect to learn a lot more over the coming days.
[source youtube.com]
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On the wishlist you go!
Dying light and Dead island 2.... Aren't they from the same company? Do look almost identical..
@Sanquine The people behind Dying Light made the first Dead Island. It's a bit weird for sure.
I thought dying light was dead island 3, then this came along, bit random. They both look great though. Had a lot of fun on dead island. I hope they use the touch pad in an intuitive way to swing weapons around.
Had to salt the Bulletstorm wound, huh?
This could be interesting since it's now been made by Yager & they made the HUGELY underrated Spec-Ops The Line.
So, there is no PS3 version?
@Splat Slowly you're going to have to deal with it.
@Splat - As of now it's been pretty easy to deal with it... I'm holding out till atleast 2015.
@Splat Talking to yourself is the first sign of insanity!
@Punished_Boss - That is what I get for trying to do a million things at once. I will learn not to have a so many tabs open on my computer one of these days.
OH MY GOD...this is exactly the same as Dead Island except with better graphics. These lazy ass developers need to start innovating. We don't want the same games over and over again. RIGHT?
@adf86 Agreed, Spec Ops was greatly under-rated.
The only problem with it was a lack of replayability. The multiplayer was an afterthought, but that didn't really bother me as I'm not keen on that side of gaming anyway; at least it didn't have a stack of multiplayer trophies to prevent you getting the Platinum. Not that that made it an easy one to get, as the single-player was really tough on FUBAR difficulty.
I loved the first island game! As long as they sorted the multiplayer and the silly glitches the didn't patch on the first game, this game will be really fun as entertaining to play!
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