Deep Silver ditches the reason so many were interested in Dead Island 2

MWEB GameZone writes: "Deep Silver's ditching of development partner Yager (Spec Ops: The Line dev), could be a deal breaker for many fans."

[SonZeRo]

i forgot that this game was meant to exist, no great loss.

[wheresmymonkey]

Ah that sucks. I really liked what they were doing with it. The build i played a year or so ago was really good.

[MadLad]

In my opinion, Yager really was the interesting thing to be had with the development of the game.

While I can at least say Yager made an interesting, and quality title by way of Spec Ops, the best thing that Deep Silver, themselves, can lay claim to is the Risen series . . .

Outside of that, they are simply a publisher who got lucky enough to profit off of a failed company (THQ) and their titles (Metro: Last Light, Saints Row IV).

[HanCilliers]

What he said

[PFFT]

Its a shame, hopefully Deep Silvers vision doesnt F it up. All this because Yager were leaving out the long winded conversations and only focusing on the Zombie slaughter. IF i want to read a long winded story id read a book. So hopefully the changes after Yagers departure arent too big. And please leave the long windedness out! Some of just just want to kill zombies without mercy.

[lemoncake]

E3 trailer last year was quite cool, but yeah the hype for this vanished quick. Totally forgot about it until just now, just so many zombie things around atm.

[spacedelete]

Spec ops had a good story with average forgettable gameplay. what will happen to Yager though ? will they get shut down ?

[MadLad]

Hopefully they were working on something on the side during the development of Dead Island that they can shop around.

[HanCilliers]

Hopefully they working on Spec Ops The Line 2!

[ninsigma]

Said this before but I honestly think this game became irrelevant as soon as dying light released.

[Trekster_Gamer]

Dying light was fun but the weapons and gunplay looks more fun in DI2. I also really missed being able to drive

[ShaunF58]

Another Zombie game!

[TwoForce]

I hope Yager make another Spec op Game. Because I want more.

[Tzuno]

No SP they said a while ago, that sucks, well it can rot...

[die_fiend]

After Dead Island: Riptide, this franchise should have ceased to exist anyway! Probably the worst game I've played in the last decade.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

I loved Riptide besides a few annoying missions.

[die_fiend]

Some people have shockingly low standards

[Hercules189]

Some people like having fun in their games. My most memorable movies were movies that most critics hated and bombed at the theatres. I have enjoyed Battle LA, Terminator 3 and many others, but despised the movies that won Oscars. One of my favorite shows on tv was Scorpion even tho its rated 3/10 on imdb. I enjoyed playing The matrix game but have zero interest in playing The Walking Dead game. The gameplay I saw of DI2 looked very fun, but was a bit too similar to DR3 but with improved graphics.

[Psychotica]

Becareful..I got a malicious website message when clicking on the link from MalwareBytes.

[Chaosdreams]

I won't lie, I have little interest in this game. Dying Light was where all my attention was (and rightfully so.) I feel like Dying Light is what Dead Island was aiming to be, so it's a game I am proud to own.

Dead Island 2...sort of feels like the game Dead Island did well avoiding to be, so it's like, "what's the reason for this?" We all love pointless mayhem, but the "omg zombies" has died down and gamers need more substance (for the most part) for what's going on, zombie wise.

[BattleTorn]

It's a shame.

Dead Island was hated, but it was also a cult blockbuster.

Regardless of over-saturation, I will mourn the zombie title.

Homefront too

[Trekster_Gamer]

I hope the direction changes. The last I heard there was no story just running around doing little side missions. I hope there will a campaign/story.

[jay2]

I played DI 2 at EGX London last september, it was good. this is ashame but it was actually quite fun and played well.

[ZeekQuattro]

About a month or so ago I saw commercials on TV for Dead Island 2. I had been watching the Walking Dead. This makes it seem like the game is going back to the drawing board which is understandable having played Dying Light. DL is what DI should of been. Sure it had some of the same flaws but the gameplay was much better and it didn't have those nasty glitches DI had.