It wasn’t just the necromorphs that made the gameplay scary, it was the environment as well. However, the key mistake that the developers made for DS3 was stripping away most of the horror elements that made the two first games such a joy to play. So, was Dead Space 3 that bad? Honestly, no. Visceral Games, the studio behind the survival horror series, was shut down in 2017. The game failed to meet sales and the whole franchise was put on ice with a reported Dead Space 4 scrapped.

While not critically panned, the third entry in the sci-fi horror franchise didn’t garner the same praise as the first two games, with the problems mainly coming from the developer’s decision to try and focus on co-op and abandoning the survival horror elements for a first-person shooter. Dead Space 2 was reportedly one of the most expensive video games ever to be made at that time, with a $120 million budget split evenly between development and marketing. All seemed well and good for the Dead Space franchise critically as it appeared that it would be the next Resident Evil or Silent Hill, though the financial returns for both games were seen as commercial failures. Then, Dead Space 2 came out in 2011 and the sequel received even higher praise, expanding on the first horror game thanks to a richer world, more weapons, and a variety of enemies. Released in 2008 on Windows, PS3, and Xbox 360, the game was critically acclaimed across the board.

For those of you who don’t remember what the franchise is about, players take control of an engineer named Isaac Clarke, a man who discovers an undead species called the “Necromorphs” on board a mining ship named the USG Ishimura. After nearly eight years of silence, it’s been confirmed by EA themselves that Dead Space will be remade for the new generation consoles.

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