EA planned Dead Space 2 Wii port?

By Fred Dutton Published 5 April, 2011

CV also shows scrapped Simpsons sequel.

A Wii version of EA survival horror sequel Dead Space 2 was at one point in time in existence, according to newly unearthed developer CVs.

A Tweet by Supererogatary that was spotted by Destructoid points towards two LinkedIn profiles - one from EA employee Gerry Sakkas who claims to have been lead QA on the cancelled title, and one from freelancer Matt Spriggens who claims to have been a level designer.

EA attempted to get the franchise up and running on Wii in 2009 with on-rails spin-off Dead Space: Extraction but it met with poor sales despite positive reviews.

Spriggens' resume also lists design work on a "Simpsons 2 prototype", presumably a follow-up to EA's middling 2007 effort The Simpsons Game.

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Comments (8) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • spiritsnake #1 1 year ago

    i wudve been interested in the simpsons sequel

  • MasonMk #2 1 year ago

    I enjoyed the simpsons game on ps3, shame they didn't make another one, all of the simpsons games were really fun apart from that skateboarding one.

  • Markitron #3 1 year ago

    Good call on DS2, wouldnt have sold at all on the Wii

  • JeffGerstmann #4 1 year ago

    DeadSimpsons2 ? turn the rest of springfield in to zombies as 1 of 5 ZombieSimpsons

    I've never heard of this was the first one any good?

  • Smoped #5 1 year ago

    While I'm sure Dead Space 2 wouldn't have been a smash hit on the Wii, I'm sure it would have sold considerably more than the rail shooter. People have no respect for rail shooters these days.

  • sunjumper #6 1 year ago

    A pity.
    I liked Dead Space: Extraction a lot more than the original. Another game set in that universe would have been quite welcome.

  • TonyHarrison #7 1 year ago

    The individual 360 and PS3 versions of the original Dead Space sold about the same as the RE4 Wii port, and they're not exactly dissimilar games. There's a market for that kind of thing, but all the Wii got after that was rail shooter after rail shooter...

    It reached saturation point by the time Extraction arrived.

  • Z101 #8 1 year ago

    Goldeneye and Black Ops shows very good sales on the Wii, despite the fact that both games released head to head.

    A DS2 would have good sales too.

    I enjoyed Extraction very much, liked it more than DS1 or DS2 but most gamers prefer "real" Ego-Shooters and not Rail-Shooters like Extraction.