When you’ve got a great IP, you want to expand on it. Despite only two ‘main’ games, the Dead Space franchise has already grown pretty diverse with an animated movie, comics and spin-offs helping to strengthen the brand.
There are no plans to stop there, however, and publisher EA has been in discussions as to how they can expand Dead Space’s influence further. What they’ve supposedly come up with is a first person shooter set in the Dead Space universe, which is already in development according to a Kotaku insider.
Not only that, but EA are supposedly working on a Dead Space flight sim too. Details about it are sparse though, but hopefully you’ll get to pilot spacecraft akin to the infamous Ichimura in full-blown space battles.
The expansion doesn’t stop there either, oh no, for once both of those projects are complete the Dead Space team will apparently move towards making an “Uncharted-like game.” Unlike the other two projects, work on this has not yet started and still in the early planning stages.
Further insight from the EA insider suggests that a recent management shuffle almost killed off the still unannounced Dead Space 3, because the main entries in the series don’t sell well compared to other heavy-hitters.
Dead Space 3 is apparently still coming though, with co-op play to boot. The whistleblower says that the game will be set on an ice planet, backing up previous rumours that it will take place on Tau Volantis.
Source: Kotaku
BIGAL-1992
An FPS Dead Space? Oh God, why? Perhaps if they do it in a similar vein as Condemned in terms of the atmosphere, thebn it COULD work, but not if they try a Call of Duty or Battlefield approach.
The Lone Steven
I can see a Dead Space FPS working as long as it has the same atmosphere as the first two Dead space games.
A space sim though, i can’t see it working as a Dead Space game.
I hope EA doesn’t force the dead space devs to make it a generic FPS set in space. Yeah, i can’t see Uncharted:Dead Space edition working.
cc_star
Pretty soon, they’ll only be FPS
Foxhound_Solid
Sounds sick love it!
bacon_nuts
I’m interested, in both… Less struck on the FPS – love the third person style of DS, especially the on-Isaac HUD, it’s fantastic. I just wish they’d make him silent again :(