We visit Visceral Games to see Dead Space 3 and chat to studio head Steve Papoutsis and senior producer David Woldman and talk about the new features in the latest installment.
If EA and Motive Studio plan on remaking all the main Dead Space entries, they have to change a lot of what made Dead Space 3 so divisive.
Simple, do not bother with a Dead Space 3 remake. Rather have a new entry for Dead Space.
Yeah I agree. Make a dead space 3, but have an original story/setting. They’ve proven they can do the game justice, and I think they could evolve 2 in a good direction, keeping a similar tone. I’d love s Dead Space 2 and 3 though. The remake was fantastic. Top tier remake, up there with RE2.
Remaking 3 would need to be a reworked and somewhat changed remake as 3 was flawed in most peoples eyes and the worst entry.
WTMG's Kyle Nicol:
"Was Dead Space 3 really that bad?
Well, it’s a complicated question. Dead Space 3 is undeniably the weakest of the trilogy. It’s a game that deviates so far from the original formula, that it throws a lot of what made Dead Space special in the first place out of the window. Although, where it does make up for it is one of the best cooperative shooters on the market, even after all this time. Do I recommend playing this game ten years later? Hell yes. But make sure your expectations are in the right place. It has a lot of problems that bring it down."
With the upcoming Dead Space Remake, we replay and rank the original three games.
Dead Space
Dead Space 2
The Callisto Protocol
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They need to seriously continue this ip with a new entry. Even if it's just another movie I don't care I love everything about this game.
Aside from the graphical upgrade, im still not convinced. It feels like the Alien franchise, but in Video Game form.
Alien was all about Horror, Aliens about action, and Alien 3 ruined what made the first 2 great.
Dead Space seems to follow the same trend.
I don't care what everyone else thinks... I'm getting this game. The other 2 have been up there as one of my favourite franchises this gen, there is no way I am not going to give them the chance to scare the balls off me again! This time though, I'll have a friend to put up with my screaming in his ear hole :)
Infact, I'm off to boot up DS2 again now.
The only thing I really disagree with is the focus on machine gun weapons. The whole point of the plasma cutters was to hack off their limbs until they stopped moving, while the took bullets like it was someone poking them. The coop scared me until they said that the coop partner would not be with you when you play alone so I'm fine with that now since I refuse to play coop because people have a bad habit of starting it but not finishing leaving me unable to finish the game.
I've loved Dead Space since the moment they announced the first one so I am buying this no matter what and could careless if it's "horror" or not
I am a HUGE Dead Space fan and will buy this game no matter what.
My only issues with this 3rd iteration is that it's become more Action than Horror. Dead Space 2 was a clear indication that the transition had begun.
In Dead Space 3 we are now getting:
A cover system
A Roll
Universal Ammo
Co-Op
All indications of removing the horror/shock/desperation and feel of loneliness. They have replaced dark narrow corridors with wide open battle grounds. Shadows and eerie sounds replaced with snow and wind.
I will continue with the franchise as I love the Overall story of the markers and the Unitology religion all taking place in space, but there is no argument that the Dead Space franchise going into Dead Space 3 is a but a shadow of it's former Horror Survival gameplay from Dead Space 1.
R.I.P survival Horror Genre, the action genre has once again replaced you to try and obtain a larger market....
I dont like at all what i've seen from dead space 3 so far , so i'm skipping it , at least till convinced otherwise .
I heard a bunch of PR things from that Enthusiast visceral director , but what i've seen felt more like some gears of war or Lost planet offshoot than a deadspace game .