Considering this is the same team that developed the well-known Spec Ops: The Line, we tend to agree. The game, if released, would have featured the same loot-grabbing skill tree as the original Dead Island, but Yager had hoped to streamline the first game’s uneven and often offensive tone. The Yager version of Dead Island 2 features eight-player co-op game modes across a California-based open world.

Experts have since verified that the build of Dead Island 2 is a genuine one, and EA Dice game designer and former Yager employee, Jan David Hassel, agrees with them. Earlier this week, a 2015 build of Dead Island 2 became available online, together with a number of screenshots and videos that reveal Yager’s vision of creating a multiplayer game.Įurogamer has recently reported that the five-year-old build of Dead Island 2 has supposedly surfaced out of 4chan, the well-known garbage bag of the world wide web. Somehow, this has not stopped a bunch of ambitions gamers from finding a version of the game which can actually be played, in some sort of manner. It has already been six years since its initial announcement, but we do not know if Dead Island 2 will appear.