One for example are the shops or merchants where you can buy stuff with the in-game currency and resources – not real money. There are no PvP leaderboards for kills or anything like that. The majority of the game will be about co-operative rather than competitive multiplayer, so you won’t generally be able to harm your fellow player. “You will have your own quest line, but a lot of the quests and challenges are best with multiplayer.” We’re still debating whether this is a good or bad thing for Dead Island 2, but the aim is to enhance your experience. Unlike Journey and Destiny though you will be able to talk to the other players that join you’re game. Internally we call it the world’s smallest MMO.” So we don’t even have this button you have to hit, where you’re told somebody else wants to play with you. “You can start playing on your own, but then other people will drop into your game. ”ĭead Island 2 will feature 8-player seamless multiplayer, with other gamers coming into your game similar to the way they can in upcoming games like Destiny. We then decided that this is something we wanted to do. The moment she realised that these were other players, she was like ‘This is fantastic’. I got my wife to play it too and she didn’t realise it either. I actually didn’t know that the other guys in scarves were other players.
“I started playing and for some reason didn’t know a lot about the game before I played it. Because Journey did something that I’d never seen in a game before,” explained Diemer. “The inspiration for the Dead Island 2 multiplayer came surprisingly from me playing Journey. Speaking to TrustedReviews at GamesCom, Game Director Bernd Diemer admitted his experiences with Journey had directly influenced the multiplayer decisions in Dead Island 2. We'll find out for sure next Friday.Developer Yager has admitted the multiplayer portion of Dead Island 2 was directly influenced by Journey.
Whatever Koch has in store for us, we will just have to be patient. Then there's TimeSplitters, which being a no-show isn't too much of a shock considering it was just announced back in May as being in early development. We can wait.Īs far as what 4A games have been developing, only it knows for sure, but it would be nice to hear what the Metro studio has been up to. It's never good to show off a game too early, and if the developers need more time, then they need more time. Last we heard, Koch Media was confident that when it comes out it’s going to be a "kick-ass zombie game," so that's at least something.Īll joking about being disappointed aside, it's nice to know the irons are still in the fire. Then there's Dead Island 2, which is still in development, but there's been no word regarding it either. Well, it's 2021 and we haven't heard a peep. Koch's parent company THQ Nordic announced in August 2019 a new SR game was in the works and that we would hear more about it in 2020. Koch Media, which operates Deep Silver as well as its own games, is hosting an E3 event on Friday, June 11 and apparently, the aforementioned games will be absent.Įveryone seemed rather hopeful when the show was announced that we'd finally hear something on the next Saint's Row. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Deep Silver has tried to quell expectations by announcing that we won't get any updates on Dead Island 2, Saints Row, Metro, or TimeSplitters during the Koch Media E3 2021 showcase.