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Deep Silver has announced Escape Dead Island, a new Xbox 360, PS3, and PC third-person adventure due to release this autumn that bridges the gap between the first and second game, Deep Silver has announced.
The new single-player adventure focusses on Cliff Calo, the spoiled son of a powerful media mogul who has stolen a yacht with some friends and intends to film a documentary which exposes the truth about the Banoi outbreak.
Players must infiltrate the archipelago’s top-secret quarantined island of Narapela, sneaking around in order to avoid unwanted attention from the roaming undead. Come across a zombie and Cliff will have to put makeshift weapons to effective use in order to survive.
Cliff must also battle against his own sanity as the world around him becomes more and more unpredictable. Time will distort, strange messages appear and impossible events shatter his reality.
All this will be presented with comic-inspired visuals, designed to enhance the surreal situation Cliff finds himself in. The game is being developed by War of the Vikings studio Fatshark.
In addition, those who pre-order (from GameStop in the US) will be granted access to the Dead Island 2 Spring Beta, though there’s no indication of which platforms the beta will operate on.
Dead Island 2 is set for release next year for Xbox One, PS4 and PC, so it seems a little odd for Deep Silver to not launch Escape Dead Island across both the old and new generation systems.
Source: Deep Silver
