Dead island 2 is an action role playing survival horror video game in development by sumo digital and will be published by deep silver.
Sumo digital dead island 2. Unlike its predecessors which took place on islands as the titles state dead island 2 takes place in various locations in california. Sumo showed so much understanding of the brand had creative ideas and an excellent vision that was aligned with our own koch media ceo dr klemens kundratitz told mcv. Sumo digital takes charge of dead island 2 mcv staff 10th march 2016 business news uk studio sumo digital has been handed the task of developing deep silver s dead island 2 mcv can reveal. The uk based studio that has been working on aaa ips like disney infinity littlebigplanet or forza convinced with a strong vision to create a true successor of dead island.
It is the second main entry in the dead island series. Sumo digital has taken over development for deep silver s dead island 2. It was first revealed on june 9th 2014 at electronic entertainment expo 2014. The game saw a difficult development period with development duties originally handled by yager development until sumo digital took over in 2016 and then dambuster studios in 2019.
New developer for dead island 2. Despite being bounced around more studios than duke nukem ip owners deep silver have announced that sumo digital who ve worked on various out sourced. Genreaction role playing survival horror. It just made perfect sense for us to move the project to them.
Following the departure sumo digital the creators. Surprise dead island 2 isn t er dead. Dead island 2 is now being developed by british studio sumo digital. Ratingrp rating pending tbc.
We are delighted to announce that dead island 2 the sequel to deep silver s critically acclaimed dead island franchise is in development right here at sumo digital. Klemens kundratitz ceo of koch media. Platform s microsoft windows playstation 4 xbox one. The zombie killing sequel was previously in development at spec ops.
Dead island 2 has a developer again. The game s main storyline is set several months after the events of dead island and escape dead island. While little was known about the specific issues yager later went on record citing creative differences with the publisher over dead island 2. The line studio yager but publisher deep silver parted.
By angus morrison. Sumo showed so much understanding of the brand had creative ideas and an excellent vision that was aligned with our own said dr.