Remember the ‘big announcement’ that was hinted at yesterday? Well Visceral Games has let the cat out of the bag – say hello to ‘Dead Space: Ignition’.
Coming to PSN/XBL towards the latter half of the year, Dead Space: Ignition takes place on ‘The Sprawl’ mere hours before Isaac Clarke turns up to kick off Dead Space 2. As always, survival is the name of the game as a Necromorph outbreak has occurred
The most interesting part of the press release reads as follows;
Dead Space Ignition combines an interactive comic-style story with three unique hacking mini games; Hardware Crack, Trace Route and System Override. Each game offers a fun and satisfying arcade experience that will challenge players with puzzles and twitch gameplay. Dead Space Ignition features a unique “Choose Your Own Adventure” type narrative, allowing players to survive the horrific Necromorph outbreak in multiple ways. The game offers four unique endings and upon completion of each one, players will be rewarded with unlocks including an exclusive suit, all of which can be used by Isaac Clarke in Dead Space 2 when the game releases on Jan 25, 2011.
Dead Space Ignition is written by Antony Johnston, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of comics, graphic novels, video games and books including Wasteland, and Daredevil. Antony makes his return to the Dead Space universe after creating the six-book Dead Space comic series in 2008. In Dead Space Ignition, Antony uses his horror story-telling expertise to introduce new characters and craft new plot twists for this intriguing prequel.”
Whilst the phrase ‘mini games’ hardly sets our souls aflame, if it is done to a high standard and priced attractively then we can see this selling fairly well – especially with exclusive Dead Space 2 unlockables.
It is interesting to note that Dead Space: Ignition is but one of many things Visceral Games has planned in the build up to Dead Space 2.
Source: VG247
Kamokazi-UK
Wooo, looking forward to this one.. I do love backstory.
citizeninsane45
So it’s a prequel to the sequel?
Dan Lee
Yup yup – that’s what they are billing it as!
Kevling
Sort of an inbetweequel then? Or tweequel for short.
(c) Kevling 2010.
lewis815
Hooray another fix of the dead space universe, looking forward to this muchly :)
TSBonyman
Hmm, not sure about this but let’s see how it turns out.
Jumping Monks
I’m all stoked up for this.
skibadee
thats 3 games in total we will be getting nice.
haz360
I love Dead Space, the sequel looks brilliant. Will see how this turns out though. If they can flesh it out and make it an integral part of the overall story, I’m all for it.
eccelex
“…features a unique “Choose Your Own Adventure” type narrative…”
don’t know why but this makes me nervous. i guess it could be pretty cool if they get the style right
Danza Di Fuoco
Dead Space? that wasn’t legendary so yet again another waste of PSN space as it will be overpriced
Foxhound_Solid
come on man….
its cool is the Dead Space World….
MrTwP
uh, if you want legendary, go play pokemon.
Foxhound_Solid
Im in – love Dead Space….