Announced at Gamescom’s Opening Night Live, a new cinematic trailer showed Jacob, one of six playable characters in the game, seemingly infected by a virus, traversing an assortment of undead. The montage shows him slaughtering his way through Los Angeles, using both a gun and a katana. Dead Island 2 – Gamescom 2022 A second trailer showed off the first new gameplay, which has been rebuilt from the ground up by developer Dambuster Studios. It’s incredibly noisy, with brutal melee combat that carves zombies in two and turns them into red mush. It’s been a long and bumpy road to the zombie-slaying sequel. After starting life at Spec Ops: The Line developer Yager, the game moved to Sumo Digital following “mutual differences” with publisher Deep Silver. Sumo worked on the game for some time, but Dambuster Studios finally took over in 2019. The original game was set for PS4, Xbox One, and PC and saw players take control of over-the-top zombie-slaying characters across multiple locations in California. It’s probably a very different perspective in its new form. Matt Purslow is IGN’s UK news and features editor.
