With the revival of the Dead Space franchise, there’s a more important question to be asked. That said, EA has promised a few tweaks courtesy of the Frostbite engine, including “an improved story, characters, gameplay mechanics.” Let’s just hope it’s nothing too drastic. (And unlike in 2008, horror is enjoying a new golden age in the mainstream at the moment, anyway.) The short video, which largely serves as a demo for what the new engine will be able to do with the creepy, viscera-covered hallways of the Ishimura, does suggest that EA’s interested in recapturing what made the original so great - the atmosphere, to name just one element in a long list of things - rather than reshaping it for mass appeal. While no actual gameplay footage was shown in the short CG announcement trailer, EA confirmed in a press release that the game is being “completely rebuilt from the ground up” on the publisher’s Frostbite engine by Motive, the studio most recently behind Star Wars: Squadrons. A new remake exclusively for next-gen consoles and PC was revealed during EA Play 2021, the company’s biggest gaming showcase of the year. By 2017, with the cancellation of Visceral’s Star Warsgame, EA had been left cold to single-player titles altogether.īut like a necromorphized crewmember on the USG Ishimura, Dead Space is getting a new lease on life.
Wilson went on to explain that even Dead Space 2, which sold 4 million copies, failed to recuperate the cost of making the game in the first place. Kind of works against itself,” former senior level designer Zach Wilson famously told in 2017, just a week after EA had shuttered Visceral Games for good. People would give us the feedback that they love Dead Space but don’t buy it because it’s too scary. Horror games in general are expensive to make and hard to sell. Unable to meet publisher Electronic Arts’ increasingly ambitious sales expectations, the final death knell for the series was 2013’s Dead Space 3, an action-heavy sequel that abandoned the scarier tone and environmental storytelling of the original for co-op shooter gameplay meant to appeal to a wider audience. Thirteen years on from its release, Dead Space is still regarded as one of the best horror games ever made, especially within the community of dedicated fans that to this day mourn the death of the franchise.
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