For good or ill,Dead Island 2came and went without a huge amount of fanfare. Currently, the game has aMetacriticscore of 73 (7.7 from users), which is pretty good, but not exactly boundary-breaking.
However, if you missed your chance to check it out when it was released last year, here’s your chance to play it on Steam soon: On April 22, to be exact. Yeah, pretty much on the one-year anniversary of the game’s release, you can pick upDead Island 2on Steam, which, until now, was only available via Epic Games Store if you wanted it on PC.
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Developer Dambuster really wants to make sure you don’t forget about its sequel, so to celebrate the re-release (let’s call a spade a spade), the studio isoffering discountson the other entries in the series.
Weird how zombie games are still a thing these days
As well as being able to wishlist the new game,Dead Island Definitive EditionandRetro Revengeare currently 85% and 75% off, respectively. Additionally,Riptideis 100% free for a limited time only. And when I say “limited,” I mean you literally only have until tomorrow to pick up a copy (the other two are discounted until February 20).
It was quite a tumultuous development cycle forDI2. Originally scheduled to come out in 2015 – and being made by Techland ofDying Lightfame – the project passed through a number of studios before Dambuster took the reins.
Considering the first installment did not leave much of an impact, it’s surprising a sequel was even green-lit. By this point, you’d think everyone would have been sick of the zombie genre by now. Evidently not.
But say what you will about the firstDead Island, thattrailerstill packs a punch to the gut to this day. It’s just a shame the actual game content didn’t match the marketing.
