The Evolution of Dead Island (2011-2022)

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Ever wondered what happened to the Dead Island franchise? Curious about what’s going on with Dead Island 2? You’ve come to the right place. Welcome to a complete timeline of the Dead Island series, including the original game and Riptide, alongside lesser-known titles like Dead Island: Epidemic, Escape Dead Island, and Dead Island: Retro Revenge. Trailers, gameplay, news, rumours - all of the above are covered in this ultimate Dead Island video.
Edited by @thisiszohair - / thisiszohair
--Chapters--
0:00 - Intro
2:45 - Dead Island (2011)
7:14 - Dead Island: Riptide (2013)
9:49 - Dying Light Announcement (2013)
11:08 - Dead Island 2 (2014-Present)
17:19 - Escape Dead Island (2014)
20:14 - Dead Island: Epidemic (2014-2015)
27:45 - Dead Island: Definitive Collection (2016)
33:02 - Dead Island: Retro Revenge (2016)
34:39 - Dead Island: Survivors (2018-2020)
36:56 - Bonus Entries
39:41 - Where Is Dead Island Today?
41:24 - The Evolution of Dead Island
--Additional Links--
Big thanks to Alimanoko for providing the Dead Island: Epidemic footage - / planetside2ideas
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[@ColossalKiwi]

Install Raid for Free ✅ IOS/ANDROID/PC: clcr.me/ColossalKiwiRaid and get a special starter pack💥 Available only for the next 30 days Disclaimer: X-sheets is a parody, and not a real product available for purchase. What’s your favourite Dead Island game?

[@thegreenone5359]

Know by The characters in the game is rage but as a game in general as a whole that ability is called the fury I think it even says so in the skill tree…. For the OG players your talking bout…

[@ColossalKiwi]

@@thegreenone5359 It's true. You build up rage to execute your fury moves!

[@Flesh_Wizard]

My favourite is riptide. Dead island 1, I believe has too much infected spam. Dying Light continued that in the late game

[@ColossalKiwi]

@@Flesh_Wizard Riptide seems to be many people's favourites. I'm pleasantly surprised!

[@draconisthewyvern3664]

i liked how the enemies got stronger as you did. it ensures they’re a constant threat at all times. damn walkers throwing knives and sticks!!!

[@KcBull]

I love that someone is still talking about this franchise. The original was my favourite game as a kid

[@zzodysseuszz]

Riptide for me. Johns super kick was by far the funnest shit in gaming at the time and as an Australian his funny Aussie accent was entertaining

[@pitchbright5960]

Still is for me

[@charleslein552]

Still my favorite. I hope this game comes sooner.

[@darrenjackson2800]

People still do? Theres a new game coming out soon...

[@GreenOnTheScene0]

@@darrenjackson2800 Before this announcement the sequel was in development hell for 8 years, so it was surprising to people still talking about it

[@Spidoc]

POV: You're watching this after Dead Island 2 came out.

[@Tytrovy]

Ik Dead Island had a different tone than what the trailer had, but i loved it and Riptide. It had times were the tone was dark but the fun zombie mayhem still has it as one of my favorite games. Dying Light nailed the "thriller" aspect for me where it's got a horror feel at night when you're low level, but going through the day and killing zombies made it so fun. I hope Dead Island 2 ends up releasing as a good game in the next year or two.

[@termi_925]

I got the dark tone on dead island when I'd find the tapes of that guy talking thru the start of the outbreak was creepy asf for me

[@xirnez314]

i know what dead island riptide is but idk what dead island *ripide* is

[@Tytrovy]

@@xirnez314 Making a comment after being up for a whole day isn't a good idea lol

[@bill9068]

I agree dying light 2 was a disappointment compared to these games

[@unknownastroid_2240]

Dying light two is kinda boring ngl. When the first gamplay dropped of I got ready I got exited for the new stuff then the game came out and now feels nothing to what it was suppose to be.. it’s just stressful dying light original had a better feel. Especially “moma ain’t happy nobody happy!” I miss stuff like this

[@M0D776]

The thing I liked about Dead Island and Dead Island Riptide was that while the story had a semblance of seriousness to it, it also had the kind of bonkers weapons you could create with blueprints, and these two things somehow balanced out to a very fun experience. Also, their OSTs slap real good.

[@hotdogstandman]

Fact

[@_Tzer]

it reminds me of the craziness in dead rising but different ya know.

[@M0D776]

@@_Tzer yeah, but funnily enough Dead Rising dials both parts (Story seriousness and Gameplay insanity) up to eleven and even mixes them, I also really enjoyed Dead Rising.

[@blitzium709]

The developer mods were so damn hilarious my dad and I loved the homerun bat just smack a zombie from 300ft away and it will fly past the other person and we’d both just lose it

[@draqon8094]

@@blitzium709 the bat was cool but the brass knuckles that did that were so much better

[@beefjerky007]

Dead Island is still to this day one of my favorite franchises. I play them frequently to this day! Looking forward to watching the video

[@DocSlaughter]

I heard talk about the sequel finally coming out by 2023

[@void7837]

@@DocSlaughter should be reannounced on summer game fest/gamescom with an august/october release date

[@nikknakks98]

We still play too, love it, looking forward to the sequel next year.

[@void7837]

@@nikknakks98 its coming out this year

[@guidorussoheck2100]

what franchise? is like the OG game, a bad sequel and a shit ass spin off.

[@flubber8795]

The new gameplay for dead island 2 is absolutely absurdly good looking so excited the game isn’t broken

[@nobodyjustacreep]

I wouldnt get too hyped yet... Thats just gonna ruin expectations

[@Hoojo]

Man I'll just be happy if there aren't any teddy bear related fetch quests.

[@NeovenatorGuy]

Dying island 2 will obviously blow dying light 2 and all zombie games but the left for dead series

[@dionl4292]

"excited the game isn't broken" We still know very little of it and how it'll run.

[@xxiSHTAr9000x]

Good the guns won’t be as cursed as they were in that scraped build lol

[@Tytrovy]

Something to add is that while I was playing the Definitive edition of both main games, some collectibles and weapons were sunken into the ground where I couldn't get them. New playthroughs didn't fix the issues so I gave up on getting the platinum trophies on PS4. I also noticed that zombies would sometimes fall through the ground which was funny, but I did get ticked off when i lost a legendary machete that way.

[@ColossalKiwi]

YES I forgot about that

[@Tytrovy]

@@ColossalKiwi You know they didn't care if that didn't even get fixed in an update

[@ColossalKiwi]

They definitely don't. Such a pity.

[@void7837]

if you're talking about the id cards you don't need to pick up every one of them. you can start a new game and start picking them up again until you get the achievement

[@LolYouMad]

I lost my moded pistol cause of it. I had the pistol out and it gave a flare gun and it dropped my pistol cause my inventory was full and it fell through the ground 😕

[@tristansalyer3086]

I like how only three months after this dead island two has a massive reveal

[@brand077792]

Ah I loved Dead Island Epidemic, I mostly played infected Isys. I remember just working 12 hours a day, and coming home to play for an hour and pass out. I tried to get others to play it, but no one I knew would give it a try.

[@ColossalKiwi]

Ah so you were always jumping on my back! Damn Infected Isys.

[@Merecir]

Well, if you want some WASD Stunlock action they just released their new game V Rising to early access...

[@mothman20]

John Morgan was my first character I ever played as. I loved how fed up with everything he was and how he had a backstory via the audio logs you could find. the anger and sadness he expressed when his family was killed off screen made me sympathize more with him. I loved how his role in the story was from a soldier's point of view and how he struggled with the changes and how they had to treat survivors. also that sprint kick was insane fun

[@tylerm7411]

I'm looking forward to di2. I hope they are able to make their vision for the game come to life

[@void7837]

I hope that deep silver won't put a stick in their ass every time they want to try something new

[@slappingshrimp4661]

Funny you say that...

[@jonathankozenko]

I will give one massive positive about the Definitive Edition of the original Dead Island that you missed: One-hit kills of zombies with cars, like in Riptide. One of the few things I genuinely did not like in the original Dead Island was that killing zombies with cars could require running into them at least 6-8 times, made worse by the fact that they're really hard to hit if they're not standing. The one-hit kill made driving segments a LOT more fun in Riptide, and in turn, the original Dead Island when it was incorporated.

[@GMBoyYT]

Dead Island Was Developed in 2005 and Was Set for a 2008 release and i saw the footage of the game and it was scary but beautiful and the 2005-2007 version of dead island had a different premise, You and Your Wife are Fighting to escape an island of the undead, but 3 years later in 2011, We Got The Final Version but It looked different than the 2008 version. Dead Island Took 6 Years To Develop Despite Some Issues.

[@ColossalKiwi]

Spot on. Thanks for the additional context! People were up in arms about Dying Light 2 being delayed multiple times, but it happened with Dead Island and the first Dying Light too.

[@GMBoyYT]

@@ColossalKiwi Did You Know That Ryder White Was A Soldier During The Iraq War and That Dead Island Is Set in 2006 During The Iraq War and Soon, Dead Island 2 Will Be Set In America 2007 With Real World Events Being Interrupted By A Zombie Outbreak!

[@ColossalKiwi]

@@GMBoyYT Bro you are a Dead Island encyclopedia lol. How do you know all this?

[@GMBoyYT]

@@ColossalKiwi I Know Everything Since Dead Island 2 Was Just Like Six Days in Fallujah But This Time The Timeline of Events Are Rudely Interrupted By Zombies and an Outbreak! Dead Island 2 Will Be About Every Country Immigrant Fighting Zombies In The USA!

[@SomeInternetGuy]

I remember when the trailer for Dead Island 2 came out and when the game never did people told me to give up. Well it's here now and it's just as beautiful as I hoped!

[@animefreak1112]

The music you had playing in the background really brought back some nostalgia in my memories especially The Price is Right, that had me smiling ear to ear. 😊

[@thisiszohair]

This was a total blast to edit! Thank you so much ColossalKiwi for this opportunity, I’m excited for more and I can’t wait until they finally reveal DI2 🙌❤️

[@richardvvaneveld9869]

Fr

[@whytho8485]

Dead island will always have a special place in my heart. The early game grind to get stronger, the new game + and trying out co-op for the first time where I was gifted The Bat. Yes, that bat, the one with crazy knockback. That Bat was the source of hours upon hours of entertainment, along with all the other modded weapons that were duplicated back and forth amongst my friends and ransoms. Riptide was the same way, fun and exciting early game, with more and more modded weapons to spice up the repeated playthroughs, which there were many. I'm sad that the definitive edition took away Johns knockback when he would super kick and uppercut the zombies. The definitive lacked the same character as the original. Dead island and riptide will always be a core memory

[@ColossalKiwi]

I feel this so much

[@brenolk4642]

The true way to play Dead Island is with Thumb Stick Combat

[@diakor9991]

Dead Island will always be one of those oddities that Dying Light brought me to by association, I sunk so much time into DI1 & Riptide just to explore & discover it's weird little areas (along with rare items + bugs/glitches) It's magic even as a single-player only. The game needed a little more love & time to be something that could have the potential to be mainstream, but would we have it any other way?

[@ColossalKiwi]

Definitely wouldn't have it any other way. I just want MORE!

[@diakor9991]

@@ColossalKiwi The game that had it all except the player base it deserved. Here's to hoping for more Jump energy fast-food of the zombie genre 🙏

[@enriquealvarez6145]

I wouldn't say a little that mediocre garbage needed LOTS of love and way more time for it to be a good game.

[@darknessbfallenu]

Happy to have ran into this video! I had NO IDEA there were so many DI games, lol. I absolutely tore up the first game and even played Riptide a few times. A few years ago I got my step kids to join me on a replay, but sadly we couldn't get the multiplayer connection to work to play Riptide together. Sucks, because I really loved how scary that one scene was inside the old missle silo (iirc) and was looking forward to scaring them haha. Thanks again, I'll have my fingers crossed for DI2!

[@TODThatOneDude]

I'm glad you mentioned the trailer, that's the first time i realized that you never get hyped off of a trailer, still a good game

[@SkibidiNigs]

The jason easter egg in dead island one truly made it one of my favorite games

[@Slaccoon]

that montage at the end of this video was really nice! i mean the whole video was great and entertaining to watch, but that little montage there? chefs kiss. Fantastic idea to end the video, reflect on what we've seen and experienced, and overall just well executed. Great video!

[@ColossalKiwi]

Thanks so much! A lot of love went into it.

[@OniZombies]

Solid video! Love it!

[@ColossalKiwi]

Solid chad! Love you!

[@Samurix16]

Hell yeah, thanks for making this.

[@ColossalKiwi]

Thanks for supporting, as always!

[@Samurix16]

@@ColossalKiwi yeah, no problem!

[@nathanlynch9634]

There can't be ten dead island games can there?

[@Krogzaxants]

I remember when i first watched the dead island trailer. Felt so sad for the little girl that died. Still one of the best trailers ever!

[@kiara.516]

Something so small that made me not want to finish Riptide was the mini map not including the dotted line that shows you where to go, it was so frustrating to have to constantly open my entire map to make sure I was going the right route, and then it would randomly show up for like half a second then disappear, it's such a minor thing that just infuriated me lol

[@rammstv]

Loved that little trailer edit at the end was awesome

[@ColossalKiwi]

Thanks so much! It just felt like the right way to end the video.

[@Drivebyedesign]

Dead island had the most horrifying runners. Their screeching and yelling still give me the feeling of impending doom.

[@kiwiranger2076]

Great video I’m glad we can really go in depth on dead island not really a lot about this game and it’s history

[@ColossalKiwi]

Thanks! It's a fascinating rabbit hole that's close to my heart

[@bigz4213]

I remember as a kid I asked my parents for this game when it first came out it was like 50$ I waited 2 years for it to come back on sale I’ll never forget the pure excitement and enjoyment this game brought me #ReviveDeadIsland

[@connortremblay1259]

I played a fair bit of the first dead island and I never skipped the intro cutscene thing because who do you voodoo is so good.

[@MarcusLB2009]

Bro that saw bat sound affect in dead island definitve edition drove me crazy

[@GreyVillain]

thank you colossaliscrazy for this awesome video

[@ColossalKiwi]

Baited

[@missdenim6590]

I still have a screen shot of where you would be on Playstation Home and part of the Dead Island game you could pose like you were running from zombies etc. I cherish that pic to this day lol

[@ColossalKiwi]

That's awesome! What a relic from the past.

[@_Tzer]

Tbh one thing that could make the original more replayable is if there was a mod that allowed you to play as ryder white in the main campaign with friends and allow him to get perks and level up now that is an idea for a mod(he has his own perks in the code and he is the only character with a perk that gives him more ammo(on top of his normal increase btw))

[@larsberghagengaming]

Great video, the best one is definitely the first but hopefully a better one is coming! Insane timing on your video with dead island 2 now "confirmed" :D

[@ElOsitolaz]

Dead Island! What a game. Proper timing would switch how you held the blade to get critical one slash headshot. Beautiful work.

[@ninjasto]

Teared up watching that ending got I miss this game, thank you 😔🙏🏼

[@bradleigh6194]

Ok anyone else think that the other voice actor (during the original Dead Island 2 trailer) sounds a lot like Aaron Paul "Come on dude, time to split" sounds so much like him.

[@TRatzlafff]

loved the edit in the end

[@christopherwinqvist8149]

Very nice video, well done

[@ColossalKiwi]

Thanks mate! Means a lot

[@biawak-dilondaniel7034]

For me there's only 2. Dead Island and Dead Island Riptide, hope new series would come out again.

[@Syuurp]

14:23 didn’t expect a Criken reference, that brings me back 🥲

[@goober_uno]

I love the dead Island series. I played both games non stop for years as a kid. I even got the Dead Island Riptide collectors steel case.

[@itsmelegend1192]

When I first saw that 2014 dead island 2 trailer I was so excited as a kid man it really bummed me out when it never came out

[@ChapinCatrin]

As someone who loved DI and all of its flaws back in the day; I recently bought the Definitive Edition, played 48hours as Sam B, experienced Rider DLC for the first time, and just started Riptide, this game is still something janky but special. I love what it tried to do and built from it to make Dying Light/The Following

[@blstem5561]

Legend has it, that some guys put almost 2000 hours into epidemic.. must have been one hell of a fever dream ..

[@Mantzzz826]

It was a janky game yet stayed in my memories and is still one of my favourites because of all the content and the funny bugs it had

[@The-Ent1ty]

7:06 Halo: managing a Warthog indoors of any building, can either be multiplayer or campaign.

[@lookingforikigai9005]

i still remember in the beginning of the first dead island, when you go past the guy who had to beat his whole family to death to survive, and depending of what you do he either kills himself, let’s himself die, or stays strong, it kinda scarred me, it was truly sad

[@ariaxrose1]

I can’t wait you made a video on my favourite game (well too 5 hehe) I cannot wait to watch this so much I’m waiting till I get my new tv to watch it 😂

[@loveMAM97]

I'm playing Dead Island Riptide right now! I love that this series is still being talked about, and I cannot wait for Dead Island Two! Finally! (I love the original Dead island)

[@GMBoyYT]

In Dead Island 1 Definitive Edition, In The Outside Parking Lot of The Hotel, There is A Dying Light Secret That Is The Bus That Says "Western Harran"! Dead Island Takes Place In 2006 and Dying Light Is Set In 2014! Dead Island 2 Likely is Set in 2007!

[@ColossalKiwi]

Very true! The number plates are changed too.

[@GMBoyYT]

@@ColossalKiwi Dead Island And Dead Island 2 Are Set From 2006-2007 During Real World Events In The 2000s Expect It Is Interpreted by a Zombie Outbreak!

[@Siberiasun2]

I played epidemic for about three months and found it to be extremely fun, but i was so addicted to league of legends at the time I didn't have the time to really invest into it.. when i heard it shut down i was sad cause i had been burned out on league by then, and really coulda used epidemic to fill my moba void. Also that end edit, was awesome.

[@KhaosInductionCreator]

People need to realize that DL2 was both developed AND published by Techland, so they had no help with anything, unlike with DL1, and iirc it’s their first time being completely on their own, so yes there’s bound to be issues, they don’t have a huge team

[@davidschmidt1686]

The original holds a special place in my heart. I cared not for the game, but the memories. Some of the dearest moments in my gaming career have happened on that game. My heart goes out to all the gamer bros and sisters I played with, moved on but never forgotten. ❤️

[@MarcusLB2009]

amazing brought back so many memories

[@vISsoulIv]

I’m watching this like weeks after the new dead island 2 trailer was teased and I’m so stoked

[@GMBoyYT]

Dead Island Is My Favorite Franchise Because It Feels Like Call of Duty Zombies, Zombiu, L4D, Resident Evil, Dead Rising and a Lot of Zombie Games! :)

[@ColossalKiwi]

It really does draw elements from all of those, doesn't it?

[@katethenerd6508]

DUDE! DEAD ISLAND 2 IS BACK BABY! YOU GOTTA UPDATE THIS WITH THE REINTRODUCTION OF IT- *im so pumped for it*

[@alabastergreen7444]

Dead island always and still does scare the crap out of me. The music, setting and screams of the dead combined are terrifying.

[@custer2035]

thx man good job

[@Randomdud1022]

Imagine if somebody made a VR spin-off of dead island lol

[@nathanholmes7308]

That would be so cool

[@Stabbyhead]

Man, I miss Dead Island Epidemic along with the strangers I played it with.

[@TheTechAdmin]

5:17 Hell yeah! Co-OP was, and still is my all time favorite game mode. And at the time I had my 3 best friends that I played every game with. We would purposely search for games that had 4 player coop mode. Then we would buy the game for each other usually. When we saw Dead Island had a 4 person coop for the FULL game, we all preordered the game and played for DAYS when it came out. One day while I went to drop my melee weapon, I accidentally was holding down my melee throw button too. So once I dropped my weapon, I ALSO threw the SAME weapon!!! Which meant I accidentally stumbled on to a method of duplicating melee weapons. I never told my friends about it. I always just gave them a lot of free stuff and made the game very enjoyable for everyone. Eventually the bug I found was patched. But by then, I had super guns with super ammo, with magazine clips that held 99999999999999 rounds of ammo, lol.

[@That1CrappyGuy]

Damn, I remember reading the Dead Island novel on my Kindle back in middle school. The game getting a book always felt super out of left field, but overall I liked the book. I really enjoyed how it expanded on the characters and fleshed them out a bit more with their interactions with each other, but man it was weird what the author did to Sinamoi

[@ColossalKiwi]

Hahaha yeah Sinamoi definitely underwent the biggest difference

[@joe8469]

what happened to Sinamoi?

[@That1CrappyGuy]

@@joe8469 they made him like a native or something who didn’t really speak English. If I remember right, one of the few things he was actually able to say to the group in English was if they wanted coffee. I definitely prefer the charm he has in the game

[@joe8469]

@@That1CrappyGuy that is weird, i wonder why they decided to change him.

[@shockmazta3116]

I really, really loved Dead Island Riptide's trailer. It made me to this day feel awful for those two un-named characters. I mean... We take our lives for granted. How does anyone come to terms with dying? They were calm and readily accepted their fates. As for Dead Island's trailer, it hurt my soul watching a family get torn apart. We, today, cannot comprehend our own son or daughter biting and ripping flesh out of our neck or our spouses' neck. Those trailers really make me feel things.

[@ColossalKiwi]

Legendary trailers, for sure. Riptide one is underrated.

[@leeqingen]

Dead island is literally one of the best game I've ever seen and played. Everything is awesome about it, gameplay, story, scene, combat, killing zombies, literally everything is perfect.

[@slimeboy76]

I feel like it's good that Sam B's song No Room In Hell isnt as good as Who Do You Vodo And I think that fits the canon well because Sam B's hole thing is that he was a one hit wonder and his only "good song" was Who Do You Vodo

[@ColossalKiwi]

Exactly this! Spot on.

[@encross8058]

yeah lol

[@OGBMZ]

The fact that you said it's a mix of borderlands and dead rising makes me happy my two favorite games.

[@randymarshislorde]

I still have my original copy that was purchased brand new for the 360 well over a decade ago, and to be completely honest, about 2 ago when I decided to play games in a vague attempt to travel back in time/bask in nostalgia, I broke out the game consoles I liked most as a kid/teenager (N64, PS2, Xbox, PS3, Xbox 360). When I eventually got to 360, the first games I picked up were dead island, dead rising 2: off the record, and state of decay. I had a bit of a zombie-fest for close to a week before I had played my fill of them lol. I'm gonna say right now, with the assistance of a few rather strong drinks, holy cow was it fun, it was fun enough that I now have another nostalgic memory of this game: I was running from a group of zombies along one of the beaches in the early game until I randomly came across some bathroom/shower-stall things and, well if anyone was watching, they would have seen a guy being chased by like 12 sprinting zombies duck into some port-a-potty things and everything goes quiet for like 3 seconds before all of a sudden the guy comes jumping out at the group with a damn boat paddle and basically goes daredevil on the zombies with some truly Kung Fu-esque maneuvers ending with him chucking the blood covered paddle in the face of the last surviving undead kretin, only to follow it up with a skull shattering final kick to finish it off. Upon realizing the last zombie was dead, you'd then see him drink like 3-4 fifths of liquor and promptly stumble off into the nearby town. It was pure chaos and I miss playing it with my old friends from school

[@coldfries8976]

To this day i did not know about any other game in the Dead Island Franchise except the original, so this video was very interesting to me!

[@ScorpionFuel]

Makes me sad that the remastered mods don't look the same..didn't play that much but should have known on how much time I put in to the first one..I just wish dying light would go back to haveing really cool and rare weapon collecting

[@Rougrou1597]

Rip Tide was decent

[@yumnugget]

That was an emotional cutscene man.

[@kwskk7504]

It seems popular but nobody is talking about it, like “I never heard that game before” but this is really a great game.

[@user-oi2rl6dq1k]

I think it’s funny that this video came out a few months before FINALLY Dead Island 2 comes out

[@cole3806]

Dead island 2 was such a happy surprise. I had so much fun

[@BladeUpDestiny]

One small thing i also found goofy about Dead Island Defect Edition, was the fact, that Sam B had he's coat letters spell'd like B mam B instead of Sam B

[@bananabread4075]

So that's why I remember meeting a guy online on this game and he started giving me so many modded weapons and I thought well it's like Borderlands it's just another game you can mod I guess but I really think it probably happened at the same time as that developer menu thing so that's just really awesome to know

[@kelefgaming2795]

Do you know what makes a gamer a gamer? Passion for gaming, not knowledge about every single game out there.

[@ColossalKiwi]

100%! I hope you saw the passion come through in this video.

[@kit_horror]

The trailer has more story than most AAA games now a days

[@lonewolffang]

12:05- I just realized the lady with the crossbow is replaced and reused as a Screamer in Dead Island 2. And for Max, I'm guessing Rick is his redesign.

[@MarshallRawR]

I can't believe I've been trying to drown zombies in the definitive edition without them dying... Now I know why

[@thatonekid3870]

Man this was more emotional then dead Island itself

[@zekyu8474]

I love how i'm watching this only days after Dead Island 2's release.

[@googus881]

This was an epic evolution and the end was an epic edit, almost cried

[@ColossalKiwi]

Thanks! That means a lot

[@thewulf151]

Bought the first because the game case said local coop 2-4 but it was online only, still didn't prevent me from playing it solo until my friends eventually got it too. I liked the arcade feel but also missed the somber realness that 1 and Riptide tried more for.

[@unnecessarycensorpolice]

Goood stoooop with that one sad song music it actually makes me cryy 😢

[@Klonosz]

You forgot to mention the human weakpoint removal where in the original release you could kick a zombie in the nuts and it would count as a critical hit every time.

[@Petey0707]

I really enjoyed the first Dead Island, but a glitch lead to me losing a weapon I spent a lot of time upgrading, I quit after that

[@palehorseman9923]

I was so utterly disappointed to find out that _Dying Light_ doesn't have the Analog Combat option; it was the one big thing that I missed while I was playing it. The ability to direct with your swings was one of the best mechanics from _Dead Island_ ; when you got used to how it worked, you could be so economical with your swings.

[@HUNT736]

I remember trying to play dead island with my dad only to find out it can only be played online co op. I was very upset because I wanted to play with him but we didn't have internet at the time

[@cobrabear6497]

I only know of three deadisland games. The main game, riptide, and that 2D side scroller.

[@ColossalKiwi]

Arguably the 3 best lol

[@void7837]

can't wait for deep silver to reveal dead island 2 this summer. Edit: game awards i guess :( i just hope it isn't going to be woke, the yager build was pretty fun to play around with and i really enjoyed its gameplay especially the great diverse soundtrack that it had. it was pretty unique and the goofy and almost cringy tone of the game was just fun. it all felt really nostalgic and kind of sad that i could've had some of the best childhood memories from this game back in 2016 i really believe that deep silver cares at least a little bit about this franchise and its success after all they could've just released it back in 2016 to get the cash from all the hype right?. and that all the developer changes had their meaning, from all the job postings on dambusters twitter it looks like the game will have some pretty advanced systems that should make the game stand out from dying light 2. the story also sounds pretty interesting and its cool to see them reuse elements from the 2015 build into the final game. im both excited and worried that the reveal at gamescom or game awards will be either the game that we've all been waiting for or the biggest dissapointment next to duke nukem foreversummer ga

[@winterfuze]

as a person who played dead island and riptide and just now bought it i love the games and techland makes some good zombie games

[@MrTheMrMan3000]

When you spoke about ps home it unlocked memories I forgot I had

[@gamingwithty1744]

And what’s funny is on May 3rd they replied to a tweet saying it’s still in development