Dead Space Developers Trying to Reach a Wider Audience, Without Losing the Horror

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EA have disclosed in an interview that they are trying to reach a larger audience with their next Dead Space game, without alienating the franchises current fans by withdrawing from the horror genre. "We embraced [the co-op] idea and we tried to open up the accessibility of the IP a little bit by adding a little bit more action, but not undermining the horror. We can't not be a horror game because that's what Dead Space is," said Frank Gibeau in the interview, then added, ""We feel good about that growth but we have to be very paranoid about making sure we don't change the experience so much that we lose the fanbase."

Source: CVG

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[shlaimon]

EA will screw it up.

[Waluigi213]

Dead Space needs to get some horror before they worry about loosing it.

[wyver]

"we want the CoD audience"

It's like EA really don't give a **** about anything else than the god damn CoD audience
Witch is mostly a bunch of brofisting fratboys and 12 year olds.

[Vand]

I don't understand their logic behind this, whatever new audience they do get will certainly not make up for the loss of fans of the series because of all these changes.

[exe3]

Has Dead Space been making a healthy profit? If so then what's the f*cking problem? Developers and publishers are so entitled they can't be content with a successful series, they need a CoD level successful series that will never happen and will only f*ck up what made the original games successful in the first place.

[shlaimon]

i didnt really like the first game...

[PantyRaider]

Sounds like fear 3.

[Novocaine]

Doesn't sound good.

[TheOriginalDaniel]

Wait since when was Dead Space part of the horror genre? I finished the first game assuming it was under the action genre, Seriously all the mutant monsters are in bright lighting in straight corridors and you're often armed to the teeth and can easily mow down hundreds of them How the hell is that horror?

[korbain]

i didnt really like the first game...

probably because the controls were horrible

[Cyrinno]

i didnt really like the first game...

probably because the controls were horrible

you can't have a true horror game without bad controls.

[PantyRaider]

Wait since when was Dead Space part of the horror genre? I finished the first game assuming it was under the action genre, Seriously all the mutant monsters are in bright lighting in straight corridors and you're often armed to the teeth and can easily mow down hundreds of them How the hell is that horror?

Turn the gamma down and dont upgrade your suit or weapons and use only the plasma cutter on the hardest difficulty then its quite challenging.

[exe3]

Wait since when was Dead Space part of the horror genre? I finished the first game assuming it was under the action genre, Seriously all the mutant monsters are in bright lighting in straight corridors and you're often armed to the teeth and can easily mow down hundreds of them How the hell is that horror?

Horror should be more about the atmosphere than the difficulty of killing enemies imo. Not that I ever thought DS1/2 were scary (except the first 15 minutes of each).

[M a x]

+1 to all (well, ok most) comments here.

I really hope they don't screw this up