Lifeless Island 2, Delayed For Years, Now ‘Coming Out A Week Early’

Again in June 2014—practically a decade in the past at this level—Lifeless Island 2 was revealed with an excellent trailer and a 2015 launch window. Solely now, in 2023, following quite a few delays, a number of studios, and even canceled variations, Lifeless Island 2 is sort of right here. The truth is, it’s popping out every week early now, and solely eight years late.

The primary Lifeless Island, developed by Techland, launched in 2011. It wasn’t an ideal recreation, however its mixture of first-person fight, open-world hijinks, co-op zombie killin’, and beautiful tropical seashores related with sufficient individuals to warrant its writer attempting to show the sport right into a multi-game franchise. That flopped onerous. But, that didn’t cease open-world zombie RPG Lifeless Island 2 from being introduced at E3 2014 with that very memorable trailer involving a jogger. After which the sport was delayed and delayed and totally different groups labored on it and it was regarded as useless after which re-announced and now, in any case these years, Lifeless Island 2 is in some way popping out early. 2023 is bizarre, y’all.

As introduced at this time, Lifeless Island 2, developed by Dambuster, is about to come back out on April 21, 2023. Initially, it was due on April 28. The information of this “early” launch got here through a video showcasing feedback from gamers asking if the sport was ever popping out to which a person says “Abos-fucking-lutely” earlier than revealing the brand new launch date of April 21.

Lifeless Island 2 has been on a journey, to say the least. Its authentic developer, Techland, went off and labored on a special zombie recreation, Dying Mild. In the meantime, Yager took on the duty of growing the sequel. After being introduced in 2014 with a 2015 launch window, the sport was delayed and Yager left the venture in July 2015. Then in March 2016, Sumo Digital took over, and for the following two years or so, writer Deep Silver stored telling individuals the sport wasn’t useless and was completely nonetheless being labored on. However in August 2019 the writer’s mother or father firm, THQ Nordic, introduced that Sumo Digital wasn’t engaged on it anymore and that as an alternative an inner workforce at Deep Silver referred to as Dambuster was growing Lifeless Island 2. 

It’s wild to suppose that, in any case these delays, Lifeless Island 2 is lastly catching a break. I bear in mind when the sport was first introduced in 2014. I used to be barely 22 and didn’t work at Kotaku. I lived in a special state. The Xbox One and PS4 weren’t even a yr previous. Really a special period.

Lifeless Island 2 comes out April 21, 2023 on PS5, PS4, Xbox Collection X/S, Xbox One, and PC. Hopefully.