10 Video Game Franchises That Just Sat Out An ENTIRE Generation

10. Dead Island

Of the many zombie games that have launched, Dead Island stood in the middle, offering both bloody carnage and deeply misleading trailer footage in equal measure back on the PS3 and Xbox 360.

Dead Island's place as a middle-market title earned it some recognition from players looking for a riotous rampage across a holiday paradise gone wrong. When it came to the sequel however, development was and still is a tedious slog. It's transferred through multiple developers and hardly made much progress.

Originally announced at Sony's E3 presser in 2014, Dead Island 2 was going for a more vibrant art style, expansions to weaponry and gameplay and potentially a story that embraced the silly over the serious.

As it was transferred from Yager Development to Sumo Digital and finally Dambuster Studios, it appears to have been supplanted by Techland's Dying Light.

While not officially cancelled by any studio, Dead Island's extended period in development difficulty has caused it to skip over the PS4 and Xbox One generation. It's possible the game may be rebuilt for the upcoming ninth console generation, but with no updates since August 2019 it's hard to tell. That didn't stop leakers from finding a 2015 version of the game and putting it online however.