Usain Bolt hasn’t expressed interest yet, but there’s time.

So going into a 20-minute hands-on with the game in the year 2022, I was a bit apprehensive.

What sort of Frankenstinian horror awaited me behind closed doors?

A large, muscled zombie attacks the player in Dead Island 2

Some zombies in bikinis and board shorts stumbled around, doing those husky growls that they normally do.

A fire axe that actually sets folks alight.

A pair of electrified claws that stuns enemies with a crackle.

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Pistols, assault rifles, a katana.

I charged up a swing with my katana and sank it into an undead surfer.

These were a genuine threat, as spamming the attack button didn’t work.

The player in Dead Island 2, wielding a wrench, stands on a street corner facing down a horde of zombies

an elemental fire pipe?

I certainly wasn’t able to do anything with them from my inventory screen.

A bloated zombie from Dead Island 2, covered in what seem to be pustules, stands in the back of a burger restaurant, still wearing part of the uniform