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What we're trying to do is make it so other players are just one of many things that are going on in the world and help give it a sense of life.' 'You can help with a quest or take down an enemy. You don't have to join together, there's no explicit party system or prompt. 'It's co-op in that other players are there.

'By default that will be how you play it,' says Ashdown. The idea is that players can jump in to help on a mission or a particularly tough boss fight, and the entire game can be played in co-op because there's going to be seven other players in your world all the time. It's totally seamless allowing you to jump in and out.' We've got 8-player co-op in this big open world. 'We're taking the co-op aspects and really running with it. 'One thing we we really get from players of the original is how co-op play with friends was a big factor in why they stuck with it,' offers Ashdown. One of the main reasons Yager 'went for it' is the co-op play, a feature that has given the game longer legs than the average zombie shooter. 'Californian music is something we're going to play with. When they heard that they could pitch for the sequel they went for it.' 'Spec Ops was a great game and I know that while the guys at Yager were developing it they played a lot of Dead Island in the office, to have a break. To try a whole new genre and way of doing things,' says Ashdown. Clearly, that's the reason so many other journalists wanted to meet Ashdown too.Д«ut Dead Island 2's zombie smash-up is quite the departure from Spec Ops' anti-war war game. But the fact it's being worked on by Yager is the biggest point of interest for me. I would have been more blasГ© about the sequel if a lesser developer was involved. I played it because it was there until something better came along.

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I got it cheap or maybe even free with a subscription. I found the original Dead Island a fairly simple take on zombies and gore a fun stomp around the undead where its mix of crafting, fetch quests and head shots helped pass away a few hours. But Spec Ops was one of the reasons he applied for the job at Yager.

The PR person overseeing the interview rolls her eyes as Ashdown politely explains that he joined the company just after Spec Ops was released. It turns out everyone meeting him today has asked the same question. When I first meet Isaac Ashdown, senior gameplay programmer at Yager, I ask him if he worked on Spec Ops: The Line. 'What we're trying to do is make it so other players are just one of many things that are going on in the world and help give it a sense of life.' What attracted the developer of Spec Ops: The Line to Dead Island 2? Co-op and California.

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