It has been a long time coming, but Dambuster Studios has finally released the sequel to 2011's zombie-smashing Dead Island. For many years, Dead Island 2 seemed lost in development hell, initially moving from original series developer Techland to Yager Development, then to Sumo Digital. The project changed hands multiple times, which lead to the franchise going on hiatus, although Deep Silver's Dambuster team eventually took the reins to build Dead Island 2 from the ground up. The years of stop-and-go development took its toll in some ways, as fans of the first game were left with little to go off of, much like the upcoming Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake.