Dead Island 2 to get New Game+ & Neighborhood Watch horde mode in October update

Published , by TJ Denzer

Dambuster Studios and Deep Silver released Dead Island 2 earlier this year, but the devs are getting a massive update ready for this coming October. Dambuster announced that it is getting ready to launch New Game+ in Dead Island 2, complete with new weapons, skins, and more, and if that wasn’t enough, a new “Neighborhood Watch” horde mode is also on the way, featuring a tower defense-style traps as players fight to survive waves of infected hordes.

Dambuster went into details about the upcoming features of the October 2024 update in a Steam Developer’s Blog post this week. Coming for free to all Dead Island 2 players on October 22, 2024, the headliners of this upcoming update are New Game+ and Neighborhood Watch:

Indeed, it doesn’t end at New Game+ either, Dambuster goes on to describe the Neighborhood Watch mode as a co-op affair where players will take on the role of the Bobcats and work together to clear the infected out of their HELL-A community. There will be mission objectives, traps and arsenals to setup, and new abilities and weapons await in a new location built for the mode.

With this update slated for October, it’s worth remembering that while Dead Island 2 didn’t get our best review score, we (and other players) did appreciate its visceral combat and turn-your-brain-off action. Stay tuned for new details on the upcoming update as it approaches, right here at Shacknews.