Dead Island 2

Amazon's new Alexa Game Control tool will let players use natural language voice commands to accomplish actions in games. The first title to feature the ...

And while you won’t need an Amazon Prime membership to use Alexa Voice Control, you will have to have an Amazon account. [Alexa Game Control website](https://www.amazon.com/b?node=24219543011), the feature will only work with PC or Xbox. With Alexa Game Control, Amazon says you’ll be able to do things like interact with NPCs and switch weapons just by using your voice.

Eight years later, Dead Island 2 has made its triumphant return to Gamescom. The beleaguered zombie RPG showcased a fancy new CGI trailer and a sizzle reel ...

By 2019, parent company THQ Nordic (now one of the many facers of Embracer) announced Dambuster Studios would finish the game with one of Deep Silver’s internal studios while new alpha builds [started leaking online](https://kotaku.com/an-unfinished-and-playable-build-of-dead-island-2-from-1843935486). [Dead Island in 2011](https://kotaku.com/dead-island-the-kotaku-review-5841009) was made by Techland. According to the game’s developers these are “larger than life” characters with “unique” dialogue that showcases the game’s “pulpy” and “irreverent” tone. [back at E3 2014](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWFaj4IQ4ro) with a CGI trailer showing a man jogging obliviously while everyone behind him is eaten alive by zombies. I have no idea whether Dead Island 2 will be any good, and at this point that almost feels beside the point. A brief gameplay trailer followed [at Gamescom that summer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWQ3FVF6APE) which showed basically what we saw today, albeit much less pretty looking.

So, what have we been up to? In 2018 Deep Silver Dambuster Studios started development on Dead Island 2, focusing on a pulp horror zombie experience – in your ...

To compliment the gore we have an huge arsenal of upgradable melee and ranged weapons, an in depth and highly customizable skill card system, allowing players to truly customize their play style, and this all exists within a chaotic and bloody combat sandbox! Firstly, Dead Island is known for its fantastic Paradise Gone to Hell setting, and our zompocalypse takes place in none other than the City of Angels. We wanted our global announcement to go hand-in-hand with an awesome demo and we’re delighted that press around the world are getting their hands on the beta build of the game at Gamescom.

Dead Island 2 was re-revealed with a release date, trailer, gameplay, pre-order bonuses, Deluxe Edition, and Gold Edition.

Elsewhere, the [PS5 DualSense Edge controller](https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2022/08/23/ps5-dualsense-edge-playstation-pro-controller/) with customizable hardware and remappable controls has been announced. As well as a copy of the game, the Gold Edition includes: - Character Pack 2 - Character Pack 1 There will be three different digital editions of the game according to the PlayStation Store. [Dead Island 2](https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/tag/dead-island-2/) was re-revealed at Gamescom Opening Night Live while confirming the rumored release date alongside a new trailer and gameplay.

At Gamescom, Deep Silver confirmed that Dambuster Studio's version of Dead Island 2 has a release date of Feb. 3, 2023, on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation.

Keeping Dead Island 2’s feet on the ground and keeping it simple might be the best way to move on from its difficult past. There will be more expansive areas with side-quests to take on, but the main thrust of the game will be a linear push through L.A., street by ravaged street. There it stayed, and Dambuster’s is the version of this game that will be released, and that Polygon had the chance to play at an event in London earlier this month. The flavor of Dead Island 2 comes from combining these skills with some useful ranged attacks — I used Molotov cocktails — and with the game’s large and varied range of craftable and customizable weapons. The characters are all infected with the zombie virus, but immune, and able to channel their mutation through bursts of a zombified rage mode, as well as through a skill tree that develops and personalizes their abilities. On the character I tried, Amy, this signature attack could be switched between a defensive ground pound that repelled enemies, and an aggressive dash attack to swiftly bring Amy into melee range. The demo that I played was set on the Santa Monica pier, where fairly tight, confined environments with warrens of cover worked well with the heavy-hitting combat. Tree is the wrong word for it, actually: Skills are presented as a deck of cards and can be swapped around at will once they’ve been unlocked, in a very free-form loadout-building process. After Techland, maker of the original Dead Island and its stand-alone expansion Riptide, decided to follow its own path with the Dying Light series, Deep Silver started shopping for new studios to make a sequel. The team, based in Nottingham in the English Midlands, took the Californian setting established by Yager, threw out everything else, and started building Dead Island 2 completely from scratch. [leak was accurate](https://www.polygon.com/23311280/dead-island-2-release-date-leaked-amazon-listing-gamescom): [Dead Island 2](https://www.polygon.com/game/dead-island-2/37462) is back in the spotlight after a famously lengthy and troubled development. In 2019, Deep Silver announced that development had been switched to an internal team: Dambuster Studios (Homefront: The Revolution).

Eight years since the last trailer, 'Dead Island 2' has been re-revealed alongside its release date and in-game footage.

[PS5](https://www.nme.com/tag/ps5), [Xbox Series X S](https://www.nme.com/tag/xbox-series-xs) and [PC](https://www.nme.com/tag/pc) via the [Epic Games Store](https://www.nme.com/brands/epic-games-store). “With plenty of weapons and brutally tactical options to chew your way through the zombie horde. Whether you’re slicing, smashing, burning or ripping, we want you to truly feel it.” The sequel will also continue to be a first-person title with both melee-based and shooting combat. [Deep Silver](https://www.nme.com/brands/deep-silver).

The gameplay and cinematic trailers show a completely rebuilt game.

Jacob, who seems to be infected as well but not zombified, uses a hand-crafted rifle-bat-axe to kill zombies initially, and later on, uses a katana to slash the undead. The new trailers Dambuster Studios showed at Gamescom also revealed Jacob, one of the game’s six playable characters, as well as some of the game’s mechanics and how combat will be. Dead Island 2 was to be developed by the Polish gaming giant Techland, but one thing lead to another, and Yager Productions landed on the project, for a while.

It's set to release for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC on February 3. It will come in several editions, and they're all up for preorder now at all ...

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After a long, long wait, Dead Island 2 is finally releasing next February: The leak that appeared on Amazon last week has been made official by a new ...

Along with solo play, Dead Island 2 will also support co-op action for up to three players. "Dead Island 2's gameplay is all about experimenting with your preferred zombie-slaying methods, just kind of going nuts," lead narrative designer Khan explained on the ONL stage. The cinematic reveal trailer features Jacob, one of six characters who will be playable in Dead Island 2.

Play with any microphone or headset, no Alexa device required. And Alexa is still there to make sure you can stay in the game with smart home control, reminders ...

Although Alexa Game Control is being touted as something brand new, Dead Island 2 won't be the first zombie game out there to include voice controls that allow you to distract zombies. [According to an Amazon developer blog post](https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/blogs/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/2022/08/alexa-game-control-august-2022.html?ascsubtag=[]vg[p]23082912[t]w[r]google.com[d]D), Dead Island 2 will allow players to "use their voice to access in-game features like navigation (by saying “where is the nearest workbench,”) manipulate zombie hordes (by saying “hey zombie”) and much more". [Dead Island 2 was finally re-revealed during Gamescom Opening Night Live](https://www.thegamer.com/dead-island-2-trailer-shown-gamescom/) with a CG trailer and a gameplay trailer.

Dead Island 2's Gamescom 2022 appearance treated viewers to a new trailer and a release date for the game, but we also learned of an interesting feature ...

A couple of examples for how this'll be used were shared with Amazon saying that players can say things like "hey zombie" to "manipulate zombie hoards." "Gamers will enjoy a more immersive gaming experience by using their voice to goad zombies, ask for help, activate special abilities during combat, and more, without having to say 'Alexa,' use an Echo device, or purchase any special hardware." Aside from that function, the voice control capabilities can also be used by players to get help navigating towards objectives or resources.

Amazon is releasing an all-new feature called Amazon Game Control which lets anyone use voice commands in video games. One of the first-ever titles to ...

“Gamers will enjoy a more immersive gaming experience by using their voice to goad zombies, ask for help, activate special abilities during combat, and more.” Game Control works with any microphone connected to a console or PC. For example, saying “swap to my best weapon” will make your avatar do that without navigating any menus. [Dead Island 2](https://ftw.usatoday.com/lists/gamescom-2022-opening-night-live-announcements) is all about battling the undead with whatever melee instruments are lying around. One of the first-ever titles to utilize this functionality is Dead Island 2, Non-playable characters (NPCs) can interact with you through Amazon Game Control, and there’s no need to say activation commands like “Alexa” beforehand.

Players will be able to issue voice commands to perform tasks like navigation and manipulating zombie hordes.

To use Alexa Game Control, you won’t even need an Alexa-enabled device, as Amazon says “any microphone or headset” will be sufficient. With Alexa Game Control, players will be able to carry out such tasks as switching weapons or interacting with non-player characters (NPCs). The first title to support this feature will be Dead Island 2, an open-world zombie game that was