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Dead Island 2

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Dead Island 2
Dead Island 2 cover
Developers
Deep Silver Dambuster Studios[1]
Former (2012-2016) Yager Development[2]
Former (2016-2019) Sumo Digital[3]
Publishers
Deep Silver
Engines
Unreal Engine 4
Release dates
Windows April 21, 2023
Reception
Metacritic 75
OpenCritic 75
IGDB 74
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Survival horror, Action, RPG, Open world
Art styles Realistic
Themes Zombies
Series Dead Island
Dead Island 2 on HowLongToBeat
Dead Island 2 on IGDB
Dead Island 2 on MobyGames
Dead Island 2 on Wikipedia
Dead Island
Dead Island 2011
Dead Island: Riptide 2013
Escape Dead Island 2014
Dead Island: Epidemic 2016
Dead Island: Definitive Edition 2016
Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition 2016
Dead Island: Retro Revenge 2016
Dead Island 2 2023

Dead Island 2 is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person survival horror, action, RPG and open world game in the Dead Island series.

Initially announced in 2014, the game was set to be released earlier but due to various issues during development, it went through multiple developers, to finally land under Dambuster Studios. It was then announced to release in February 3, 2023, and then delayed to April 28, 2023, and then moved a week forward to April 21, 2023.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Epic Games Store
Epic Games Launcher
Deluxe Edition and Gold Edition also available.
Windows
Humble Store
Epic Games Launcher
Deluxe Edition and Gold Edition also available.
Windows
Steam (unavailable)
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Set to release on April 22, 2024.
Windows
All versions require Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM.[4]

Monetization

Type Notes
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

Microtransactions

Type Notes
No microtransactions None

Version differences

(Digital) Deluxe Edition: Includes base game and Golden Weapons Pack (Golden Mace and Golden Pistol) and Character pack 1 & 2 (Unique costume and weapon) bonus content.
(Digital) Gold Edition: Includes everything part of Deluxe Edition alongside Pulp Weapons Pack (Eye Opener and Homewrecker Weapons) bonus content and Expansion Pass.
Pre-order Bonus: Includes Memories of Banoi Pack (Banoi War Club, Banoi Baseball Bat, Weapons Perks, Skills Card).

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename video files
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\DeadIsland\Content\Movies.
  2. Delete or rename BootAMDLogo.mp4, BootLogo.mp4, BootLogo_4K.mp4, BootLoop.mp4, and BootLoop_4K.mp4.
  3. Go to <path-to-game>\DeadIsland\Content\DI2\Movies.
  4. Delete or rename Intro.mp4, Intro_4K.mp4, DeadIsland_Titles.mp4, DeadIsland_Titles_4K.mp4.
Changes will be reverted upon game update or after a File integrity check
Will still have to manually skip through all the Legal and Autosave information

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\DeadIsland\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/934700/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\DeadIsland\Saved\SaveGames
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/934700/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Steam Cloud

Video

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Ultra-widescreen

Use Dead Island 2 Fix
Removes black bars in cutscenes.
Removes limit on resizing HUD.

Installation

  1. Download Dead Island 2 Fix.
  2. Extract the contents to <path-to-game>.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
[citation needed]
Surround sound
Microsoft Spatial Audio API is supported
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Not changeable through ingame menus.
Royalty free audio
Has streamer mode which block licensed music. The licensed title sequence music is not blocked, however.[6]

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Czech
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
Online play
3 Co-op

Other information

VR support

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 12 https://deadisland.com/news/technical-faqs
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10
Processor (CPU) AMD FX-9590
Intel Core i7-7700HQ
System memory (RAM) 10 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 70 GB
Video card (GPU) AMD Radeon R9 390X
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060
6 GB of VRAM
DirectX 12 compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/934700/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (934700) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  2. No mention of ray tracing support in any of the technical specs, reviews, videos or interviews

References

  1. Gematsu - Deep Silver Dambuster Studios takes over Dead Island 2 development - last accessed on 2021-01-15
  2. Eurogamer - California Dreamin': Dead Island 2 embraces the slaughter - last accessed on 2021-01-15
  3. MCV/DEVELOP - Sumo Digital takes charge of Dead Island 2 - last accessed on 2021-01-15
  4. Dead Island 2 is using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech - last accessed on 2023-04-21
    "And, after five CPU changes, we were met with the following message. So, as you can clearly see, Dead Island 2 uses Denuvo. The game’s executable file also hints at the inclusion of Denuvo (as it’s around 438MB in size)"
  5. AMD FSR 2 Games List - last accessed on 2023-03-14
  6. Dead Island 2 Technical FAQs - last accessed on 17 May 2023