Spec Ops was great in its own right and it did what it set out to do, and we want to do the same thing again with as much conviction as Spec Ops with Dead Island 2." " enjoying these comedic qualities and exploring something else. "There was a sense - not really thinking about it at the time - that we needed something back into our system," he replies when we ask him was it a need to recover from the intensity of their then-current project that drove them towards this sequel. And then we got wind that Deep Silver were looking for a partner, and we thought 'hey! we can pitch for that'." It was the game for lunch break, every day.
"We had a lot of communal areas with a lot of dev kits set up, and when Dead Island came on it was on for weeks and weeks. "Dead Island came out and was a pretty big hit in our office," Kempson explains when we catch up with him after a BCD presentation of the game. Play multiplayer before they even realise."It's a more boring story than everyone would like," says producer Michael Kempson about how the makers of the gritty war story Spec Ops: The Line landed the sun-kissed zombie comedy overtones of Dead Island. “It’s not something you have to do, but it’s there. You’ll have a little sign over your head and other players can hunt you down.” They have a little safe in the corner and you can rob them, but they’ll put a bounty on your head. 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. Developer Yager has admitted the multiplayer portion of Dead Island 2 was directly influenced by Journey.
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