Hi everybody! I’m Steve Papoutsis, Executive Producer for Dead Space 2 at EA’s Visceral Games studio in Redwood Shores, California.
The team is hard at work on Dead Space 2, but today we are releasing our first official trailer! We are very interested in hearing what people think about the trailer as we are certain fans of Dead Space will have lots of questions. After you watch it, please post any questions here and, if the answers are not spoilers, I’ll do my best to reply.
The concept behind the trailer is to hint at one of the core elements in Dead Space 2, while also showing off new enemies, a peek at an environment, and some other sneaky things. Hopefully, fans of the original dig into the hidden stuff and new folks can get a glimpse at what the Dead Space franchise is all about: gruesome enemies and horror.
The team and I really enjoy all of the support we have been getting from the Dead Space community, and we are doing our best to create a worthy sequel. If you want to keep up to date on what we are doing, please join our Facebook page or follow us on Twitter. Looking forward to your feedback on the trailer.
I hated extraction, why does one of the characters say “oh jesus” instead of Alban.
I loved your first game, scary all the way up until the end. No cheap scares like that cause there not scary, it has the opposite effect.
Im looking forward to understanding this futuristic sci fi horror and what the church is all about, I hope you continue with doing motion comics or animated movies to further develop the world as you did in the first game.
Great job guys and Alban be praised!
I love Dead Space, The suit looks bad ass(reminds me of Iron Man) Than you have that awesome in-game HUD. The weapons are very well executed, and the BEST part about it is THE SOUND DESIGN, I cant stress enough just how important sound design is when it comes to games, DEAD SPACE 1 did this flawlessly it was masterful, the asound FX and ambiance, brought the whole atmosphere to life, and helped you experience the game to its fullest. I hope you guys can do the same to DeadSpace 2.
please… for the sake of the fans…. NO ONLINE TROPHIES!! us horror game fans that want to platinum this would find it annoying if we have to “rank #1 for 2 straight weeks in a row on ranked servers” to get a trophy, or some crap like that. keeping trophies SP, and then having online unlockables based on your rank make much more sense. that way the non-mp users can platinum.
Dead Space Extraction should be on the PS3 with Playstation Move support. Make it happen!
My husband and I loved playing Dead Space. There are times he would literally scream when something would jump out and start attacking him. I described it to friends as a good blend of System Shock and Doom 3.
Seeing an Extraction release for PS3 would be pretty awesome, especially if it utilized the Move controller!
The most disappointing thing about Dead Space was the audio quality, which was awful compared to other PS3 games. It would be excellent if some of the assets in DS2 were 24-bit lossless and the mixer upsampled the rest. PS3s have HDMI and hard drives built-in, so there’s no reason it can’t be done. If Uncharted can do it, so can you guys!
The other thing was the aliasing artifacts. It looked like DS1 was sub-720p and didn’t use any kind of AA. I hope that DS2 makes more effective use of the SPUs in the system for resolving those graphical deficiencies.
Lastly, I games that make me replay the same experience multiple times to get all the trophies really annoy me. (On the other hand, I am love Heavy Rain!) Unless DS2 has a true branching storyline and multiple endings, please structure the trophies so a replay is not necessary.
Thanks for a great game, keep up the good work!
LOVE IT. Anything Dead Space I am excited for. Please give me this game now. I want it. More gore and strategic dismemberment is what I ask for. Keep up the great work guys.
THE FIRST DEAD SPACE IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE GAMES IN THE PAST 5 YEARS.
very interesting trailer and thanks Steve for your previous replies. Learned a lot about this game by just reading the replies. I’m wondering are you guys planning of making a collectors edition. If yes then I would definitely get. A preorder bonus is a good idea too.
First off I’ll like to say I really enjoyed the original Dead Space. It is so far my favorite survival horror game of all time. I’m sure Dead Space 2 will take its place.
Anyways I myself am VERY pleased to hear about competative MP in Dead Space 2. I prefer MP over SP any day. I still play the SP and get all of the trophies most of the time, but MP is where it is at for me. SP just doesn’t last as long as MP can. I’m really hoping you guys pull a thing like ND did. Make an AMAZING singleplayer only game then make a sequel with a better single and an AMAZING MP component.
One suggestion I have though is that you guys some how get a beta out there for the public to test. That way more glitches you guys can actually see what people think about your the MP experience and you’ll be able to change anything that the majority think should be changed to make the game better. I’m really hoping the MP in Dead Space 2 is ground breaking, like Uncharted 2 MP was.
I read in the Game Informer debut that you guys were actually going to make the sequel less scary because some people were too scared to play. I hate that you guys are gonna turn down the terror If I was a game developer making a horror game hearing that people were too scared would tell me that I did a great job.
Anyways this looks very cool, Dead Space brought the fear back in to video games.
Hey Jeff or Sid Vicious, could you guys add this trailer to the PSN store. I’m sure other fans would like to download this trailer to keep them excited. thanks
Please tell me (Judging by the cosmetic part of the Trailer) that Issac doesn’t have a monster inside of him. We have too many protagonists turning into the very same things they’re fighting. However, this should be good. I hope it’s darker then the first.
i love the first DS2..it came from the left field, no one expected it to be a great game (for me anyways) specialy when around that time EA is not that known to have great games (except for known games) and when the survival horror genre is (depends on what view you have) either really growing stale and/or doesnt feel like its offering anything new..RE5?!!puhleeasee!!..
anyways if the ingredients are still there im gonna get this on the first day…hope its longer this time and dont take the RE route, dont be too action’y pls!!..im not sure if i want multiplayer on this one, i dont mind having one though, but i cant help but feel how its gonna go about and i hope it doesnt rob the experience of the atmosphere and immersion in/of the game..
I’d just like to say well done on the first dead space, greatest scifi/horror to date by far & thats really saying something!
I’m a firefighter, brought ds to the station one time to play it & 5 other firefighters brought it the next day after seeing how intense it was. Really hope you guys havn’t drifted too far from the original formula as it was flawless! Only thing i’d like to see more of are ever so slightly less repetetive mission starts & finishes, & hopefully a zoom feature with at least 1 weapon. Also i’d like to ask, can you upgrade & change suits still?
Thanks for being a firefighter, you guys are awesome and do a very important job.
You will still be able to upgrade weapons / tools and your suit.
Glad you enjoyed the first game.