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Dead Island 2's canned original version "would have killed the franchise", insists exec

Matt Wales Eurogamer

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Genres · adventure, fps, hack_and_slash, rpg

Release · Apr 21, 2023

Developer · Deep Silver, Dambuster Studios

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