In a world where Dead Rising exists, I can see them making a humorous open world zombie game. In terms of tone, Dead Island's story was faithful to its trailer. It was incredibly self serious to the point of boredom. Dead Island was different from the emotional trailer because of the very nature that it's a cooperative RPG about brutally mutilating zombies with crazy modified weapons, not because they weren't shooting for a serious tone. By it's very nature, it wasn't going to hit anywhere near the emotional beats of that trailer. Then again, I never really saw the big deal with Dead Island's initial trailer.

The only thing I would be worried about is that quality of the jokes won't be as funny as the trailer. Dead Island 2 was probably the funniest trailer at E3, more so than Sunset Overdrive's.

@crithon: Definitely. I heard Yager took over a while back, but it totally slipped my mind. I got really confused when I saw this trailer, thinking Techland was working on two zombie games. A coworker set me straight. It's kind of weird though. Deep Silver owns Dead Island, but not Techland. So, they hired Yager to make the next Dead Island. Techland, I guess, wanted to make something new or maybe WB just wanted to have their own zombie thing now (who doesn't?). I mean, this is the type of shit that used to happen all the time. I didn't think these bigger independent studios still really existed. But maybe it's only a matter of time before Techland and Yager belong to some bigger company.