Dead Island 2 has become a myth of sorts among video game fans. The original Dead Island was a scrappy first-person zombie game developed by Techland that helped the studio shift into AAA game development. Dead Island 2 was, at the time, seen as the game to take Techland to the next level, like Borderlands 2 was to Borderlands. Since then, everything has gone off the rails for Dead Island 2's development, with little shared about the project in years. Despite that, Deep Silver continues to say development continues.