Denis Murphy writes- Back in February 2011 the first trailer to Dead Island was released, the first-person open-world zombie horror game by developer Techland. The trailer was completely CGI and featured a zombie attack on a family that was shown entirely in reverse. Played alongside the beautiful music of Giles Lamb the internet had a shit fit about how good it was. Countless websites were wetting themselves by how “moving” it was. Psssht, my first thought when watching it was, “They must really not wanna show real gameplay!”.
Fatshark CEO Martin Wahlund states that a strict release dates can hinder a game's release if it doesn't allow developers to polish the game.
Well the developers need to be at a set point in development before they can put a garuntee on the date. Its up to them to know if they can get it done and polished in a realistic time frame. IMO, the game should be playable from start to finish before a date is set. Then from there they have time to polish,bug test,and any other sort of fixes before the release date. All we get now are ship now fix later type of mentality.
GameWatcher - Warhammer Vermintide 2 developer Fatshark explains why their last game Escape Dead Island disappointed, and how they learned their lesson for the first Vermintide: "the key thing as a developer is to control your release date".
“Dead Space Ignition and Escape Dead Island are coming to Xbox One Backward Compatibility today."
I played this game, it really wasn't good x)