{"id":54335,"date":"2022-08-23T23:09:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T23:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dead-island-2-finally-shows-new-gameplay-after-eight-years\/"},"modified":"2022-08-23T23:09:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T23:09:02","slug":"dead-island-2-finally-shows-new-gameplay-after-eight-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dead-island-2-finally-shows-new-gameplay-after-eight-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Island 2 Finally Shows New Gameplay After Eight Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eight years later, Dead Island 2<\/em> has made its triumphant return to Gamescom. The beleaguered zombie RPG showcased a fancy new CGI trailer and a sizzle reel of characters smashing zombies like Gallagher going to town on a pallet of rotting watermelons. It comes out on February 3, 2023, almost exactly a year after 2022’s big gruesome zombie RPG<\/span>. Are you ready?<\/p>\n

Dead Island 2<\/em>‘s latest trailer showed off Jacob, one of six playable zombie-slayers. According to the game’s developers these are \u201clarger than life\u201d characters with \u201cunique\u201d dialogue that showcases the game’s \u201cpulpy\u201d and \u201cirreverent\u201d tone. It also sports a co-op campaign, bigger map, and more complex dismemberment system than its predecessors. But if you asked me to figure out what sets the cursed project apart from other zombie games outside of its sun-soaked rendition of Venice Beach, I wouldn’t have a clue. <\/p>\n

I have no idea whether Dead Island 2<\/em> will be any good, and at this point that almost feels beside the point. It’s transcended the particulars of its sub-genre to become pure video game industry spectacle, like Duke Nukem Forever<\/em> and a handful of other projects that were born in one era and clawed their way through years of development hell into another.<\/p>\n