Deep Silver, the developer of Dead Island, has quashed rumours that the studio is currently working on a sequel to the original Dead Island game, but has not ruled out working on it in the future.
Dead Island burst onto the video game scene in the most dramatic and perhaps one of the most controversial ways possible. A trailer to the game was released which saw a little girl running away from a horde of zombies and into her parents hotel room but not before she was bit.
The trailer continues to then show her parents fighting to keep the zombies from entering their room before the girl turns (into a zombie), attacks her father and her father hurls out the hotel room window to fall a number of stories down below to her ultimate death.
This stirred up quite some controversy with parents calling for the trailer to be banned, however, that did not happen and the game went on to be quite the critical and commercial success with Dead Island receiving generally positive reviews.
However, gamers have been growing restless for any news regarding the sequel of the zombie survival game, yet Guido Eickmeyer, the development director at Deep Silver, put an end to any rumours of the game currently being in development.
He explained that the studio were, “neither working with Yager on Dead Island 2 nor do we have any contractual agreement with Yager about any project at this point,"
He continued that the two parties, "Yager and Deep Silver do have a very close relationship, based on personal and professional connections between the parties."
Before going on to state that there was solid, “chance that we will - at some point - work together on a title - and I would not even exclude the possibility that this could be something within the Dead Island franchise,"
However, he ended with the news that neither the developer nor the publisher had anything in place at the moment, “that would explain such a news, nor do we have Dead Island 2 in concept or production with external partners."
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