OUT 28 APRIL PC, PS4/5, XBOX ONE/SERIES Like a particularly persistent zombie, this game simply refuses to die. Set in a quarantined Los Angeles – which, you might note, isn’t an island at all – Dead Island 2 has had bigger problems than a misleading title. Announced in 2014, it has since changed hands twice, passing from Yager to Sumo Digital, before present custodian Dambuster took over. If ‘development hell’ doesn’t quite cover the game’s rocky road to release, it’s shaping up surprisingly well, with the first-person action setting grisly new standards for in-game gore. CHRIS SCHILLING