The unique Dead Island 2 reveal trailer is now an iconic (maybe notorious) second in video games. It was an awesome trailer, individuals have been excited, after which quick ahead almost a decade later, and the sport continues to be in growth.
First revealed again in 2014, Useless Island 2 was in growth at Spec Ops: The Line developer Yager, with Useless Island developer Techland having parted methods with the property to work on Dying Mild. Writer Deep Silver handed over growth of the sport to LittleBigPlanet 3 developer Sumo Digital in 2016, after which, in 2019, the corporate introduced that Homefront: The Revolution developer Dambuster Studios could be creating Useless Island 2. It is now 2023 and Dambuster’s Useless Island 2 is due out in April, lastly.
Dambuster revealed its new Useless Island 2 final yr and it did so with a elaborate new cinematic trailer, albeit one very completely different from the unique 2014 reveal. This is not essentially shocking – Dambuster says it has developed Useless Island 2 from a clear slate, from the bottom up. Throughout my cowl story journey to play 8 hours of Useless Island 2 at Dambuster’s Nottingham, England, location, I used to be curious: did the workforce ever contemplate remaking the unique Useless Island 2 trailer? The reply was no.
“It wasn’t actually on our radar to redo the trailer,” Useless Island 2 recreation director David Stenton tells me. “I believe it is enjoyable to form of take that trailer – particularly now the situation of the trailer – and see the way it applies to the tone of the Useless Island that we’re delivering. That trailer undoubtedly delivered on the postcard LA and I believe we ship on postcard LA another way.”
Nonetheless, although, I puzzled if Dambuster used that unique trailer as a guiding mild for the sport’s growth, particularly given how well-received it was in 2014 (even Goat Simulator 3 not too long ago remade the trailer).
“Probably not,” Stenton says. “We began with a clear slate, completely with our personal imaginative and prescient. We’re not wanting an excessive amount of at… what occurred up to now or too many different video games on the market. We’re simply actually targeted on how will we need to make Useless Island 2 completely phenomenal, convey it updated, and ship a recreation that we predict followers will actually get pleasure from.”
For extra concerning the recreation, learn my Useless Island cowl story right here after which head to Sport Informer’s Useless Island 2 unique protection hub for tales you’ll be able to’t discover wherever else, like why the sport is ready in a metropolis that is not an island, detailed breakdowns of two of Useless Island 2’s survivors, Dani and Ryan, and the way weapon sturdiness is a helpful instrument for Dambuster Studios.
You will additionally discover unique gameplay in movies like this one about how Dambuster Studios information the sounds of zombie guts in Useless Island 2 and new particulars about our hands-on time within the Useless Island 2 cowl story dialogue episode of The Sport Informer Present.