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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