Days Gone 2 is not happening, it's "time to move on," dev says

We've all got them. Those could-have-been, should-have-been hypothetical games that we wish had happened but sadly never did. I always wanted a sequel to Freedom Fighters, the criminally underplayed IO Interactive squad shooter from 2003, but the fates had other plans. Now, Days Gone 2, the presumptive sequel to Bend Studio's underloved zombie survival RPG, seems set to join the list of games that never came to pass.
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