EA makes Dead Space 2 official

By Robert Purchese Published 7 December, 2009

Visceral Games, Isaac Clarke return.

EA has announced Dead Space 2 for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, but hasn't said when it's due out or whether it includes multiplayer.

All we know of the sequel is that Visceral Games will once more develop and hero Isaac Clarke will return. This time, however, he'll have new tools to "slice and dismember" with as he takes the fight to the Necromorph menace. He's gone all Sigourney Weaver, it sounds like.

News of a second Dead Space game has been doing the rounds for months, and we've heard that there's a third instalment planned too.

Dead Space was a third-person survival-horror game that followed mechanic Isaac Clarke as he chased down a distress call made by the spaceship Ishimura. Turns out there were nasty aliens on board.

The atmospheric PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 game quickly gathered a strong following, although we ended up giving it 7/10 at the time.

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  • gjgjg #1 2 years ago

    sweetattack

  • tossetaz #2 2 years ago

    Dead Space was awesome - I couldn't play it with the light turned out if I were home alone :(

  • siro #3 2 years ago

    Boy, that 7/10 was plain wrong. The first Dead Space was amazingly well done.

  • Ged42 #4 2 years ago

    \o/

  • bad09 #5 2 years ago

    Well it was no secret was it. Cannot wait, going through my third play of the first at the moment!

    It is sadly MP (in some unknown form) isn't it? Didn't they advertise for people to work on it or something?

  • Vanmunt #6 2 years ago

    Just don't let 'Dead Space Dan' review it...... that lad wouldn't know a good game if it bit him on the scrotum.

  • wizlon #7 2 years ago

    I loved the 1st one despite not being hyped about it at all, easily a 9 from me.

    So, what's the chance this will be an open world 3d person action game then?

  • Santino #8 2 years ago

    i kinda agreed with the 7/10...hopefully this one adds some more variety though as it had potential.

    edit: oh come on, marked down for this?!
    Edited by 1 at 07/12/09 @ 14:40

  • ManicDrunkMonk #9 2 years ago

    Yay!

  • swissorc #10 2 years ago

    definetly a 7/10 no way near as good as resi four was pure and simple. Mind you would rather play a sequel to dead space than resident evil five

  • MaFlippinHeadHurts #11 2 years ago

    Class game and totally kicked Resi Evil 5's butt!

    9/10 for me

  • meerkat23 #12 2 years ago

    can some one explain how clarke is gonna return after he died at the end?!?!?!

  • Beano #13 2 years ago

    The first Dead Space was great - looking forward to the sequel :D

  • Baranga #14 2 years ago

    It may have something to do with him NOT dying at the end.

  • TruSmiles #15 2 years ago

    Really liked what I played of the original, but stopped playing it after the first few areas due to being a complete wimp.

    Guess I should try again :D

  • Eraser #16 2 years ago

    "i kinda agreed with the 7/10...hopefully this one adds some more variety though as it had potential.

    edit: oh come on, marked down for this?!     "

    Ofcourse. These ratings are nothing but a penis contest these days. Post something that the dumb herd of monkeys agree with and you'll be at +10 in no time.

  • menage #17 2 years ago

    SOLD!

    Finest survivor horror in ages. And you could walk while shooting!:p
    Edited by 1 at 07/12/09 @ 14:45

  • Xerx3s #18 2 years ago

    "The atmospheric PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 game quickly gathered a strong following, although we ended up giving it 7/10 at the time."

    Yes and you where quite wrong about it. Thank god that play had it for 15 euro this year or I might have missed out completely on this gem.

  • Xerx3s #19 2 years ago

    meerkat23: Who says that he did? Al you saw was a suggestion. :)

  • Evolution #20 2 years ago

    I think 7/10 was pretty deserved, not saying it was a bad game but for all the hype it didn't do enough things right for me, I heard it controlled better on consoles though.



  • liverpoolfc #21 2 years ago

    The game was amazing but never managed to complete it due to a glitch near the end of the game. Saved the game in a certain room but couldnt leave as the door wouldnt open.

  • menage #22 2 years ago

    @xerxes

    Exactly, I wish I had paid full price for that gem though, instead of Gears 2.

    Part 2 is def. getting my money, and I'm really looking forward to Dante's as well

  • Collymilad #23 2 years ago

    Yay.

    Could EG get someone who knows about games review it this time :p

    Now Mirrors Edge 2 - come on EA :p

  • Petulant_Radish #24 2 years ago

    I thought 7/10 was about right for it, decent game but it got quite repetitive at times, and it did tend to rely on things popping out at you from walls and the like for the ‘horror’ aspect. Still, plodded on through and completed it, and it was a good challenge on the harder difficulty level.

    7/10 is still a good score you know!

  • markymark22 #25 2 years ago

    Class game. Deserved about an 8/9 out of then for me! Only lost marks for the odd time it just through swarms of enemies at you!
    But yeah ended strange but never showed him dying so....

  • kinky_mong #26 2 years ago

    I'm another person who agrees with the 7/10 review. It was merely an okay game, relied far too much on conventional "It's quiet, quiet, LOUD STRINGS AS AN ENEMY POPS OUT OF THE WALL/CEILING/GROUND!!!" scare tactics, and gave the player the Ripper really early on which was basically a "hold RT to win game" weapon.

    There's definitely potential for the sequel to be a fantastic game though.

  • CunningLinguist #27 2 years ago

    Game had potential, but it lacked variety. I agree with the review, Isaak go make me a sandwich while you're fixing x item in y level.

  • JayScott #28 2 years ago

    Some popular Australian gaming magazine gave it a ridiculous 6/10 (Hi Darren ;) ). Heck, I thought 7 was way too low. One of the games of the year last year for me, a superb game, greater than the sum of its (admittedly poached) parts. Only sections I hated were the turret gun sections. Everything else was really well handled. Cannot wait for the sequel.

  • Eraser #29 2 years ago

    "The game was amazing but never managed to complete it due to a glitch near the end of the game. Saved the game in a certain room but couldnt leave as the door wouldnt open."

    Had that same problem, but you can go back to the last save point, save your game there and try again. It's a known issue and you can get around it.

  • DUFFMAN5 #30 2 years ago

    Just keep it single player, we do not need MP forced into the game. First one was ace, lets hope they can repeat the trick. No shooting fookin asteroids mind ;)

  • JayScott #31 2 years ago

    @ Earl Basett

    Having not played the PS3 version I don't really know (I gave it to my brother as a gift, and he loved it, so it sounds like it's fine), I can tell you you won't be disappointed with the 360 version. It plays superbly.
    Edited by 1 at 07/12/09 @ 16:03

  • menage #32 2 years ago

    360, games are pretty identical but the anti aliasing on 360 looks better (I only played the demo on Ps3 though)

  • Xerx3s #33 2 years ago

    "Is there a better version out of PS3 and 360? "

    I thought that the texture and overall image quality of the ps3 version I played was shockingly poor. For the rest, it's a brilliant game, no matter what platform you play it on.

  • dudefella #34 2 years ago

    Still don't understand the 7/10, really. I thoroughly enjoyed Dead Space, even if it didn't reinvent the wheel. Terrific atmosphere and action/controls.

  • rogermellie #35 2 years ago

    Good news! A great homage to System Shock and I think EG wasn't far off with the score. I think other sites should be more ashamed of their inflated scores for RE5.

  • Monkey_Chops #36 2 years ago

    Dead Space was what Resi 5 should have been.

  • MadCaddy13 #37 2 years ago

    I had it on both consoles and they are exactly the same

  • Murton #38 2 years ago

    Dead Space should have been a major contender for Game of the Year in 2008 but sadly came away with nothing more than a few awards for audio.

    It was without a doubt the most underrated game of 2008 and in my opinion a much better nod to System Shock than the disappoint that was Bioshock ever was and ever will be.

    Can't wait for the sequel, here's hoping it looks and plays as well as the first if not better.

  • ExplodingClown #39 2 years ago

    Any idea if Warren Ellis is contributing to the script again? The first one's backstory did a nice slow reveal, very System Shock. All the blood and spookiness in the world won't help if the plot springs more holes than a colander (see Condemned, FEAR etc).

    It'd be nice to have an ending that wasn't a cheap 'boo' scare too.

    (but isn't Isaac mad? Maybe the ending was another of his hallucinations)

  • man.the.king #40 2 years ago

    @meerkat23

    "can some one explain how clarke is gonna return after..."

    They will probably just pass it off as a nightmare or something...

  • Tomo #41 2 years ago

    7/10 was about right for me, although admittedly I didn't finish it. That's partly why I'd give it a 7 mind.

    Mirror's Edge 2 now please. Now that was an amazing game.

  • David_W #42 2 years ago

    I made the mistake of judging Dead Space from it's awful, awful demo. I finally ended up getting it when it hit the discount bins and loved every second of it.

    I wonder if there's ever been another demo that managed to fail as hard to show off a game's qualities and actually made it seem generic and cheesy instead.

    Since getting it I've been recommending it to everyone I know, as nobody seems to own it. Wonder how come.

  • man.the.king #43 2 years ago

    @Xerx3s

    "I thought that the texture and overall image quality of the ps3 version I played was shockingly poor"

    You must have played a PS3 version different from the one I played then, as I thought it looked pretty good on the setup I played on.

  • menage #44 2 years ago

    @Madcaddy

    So there was AA in the final PS3 version? It sure as hell wasn't in the jaggy demo.
    Edited by 1 at 07/12/09 @ 18:16

  • Bazfrag #45 2 years ago

    "No shooting fookin asteroids mind ;)"

    +1. I found those bits very irritating. Would also like less vents for necro's to appear from, and more varied scares. Lol i played this with surround headphones and had uncontrollable leg spasms whenever I was chased by something.

    oh and every reviewer that praised the inventory for not pausing the game should be forced to play System Shock, and then find a different career!
    Edited by 1 at 07/12/09 @ 18:37

  • davisorle #46 2 years ago

    7/10 for the first one huh? Seriously EG needs reviewers that know what reviewing means and not that "feels like playing" for them personally. Cause most games seem to be reviewed fine but the score by the end of it very random. Dead Space is what they should have taken an example in Residnt Evil 5 to know how you can make a good looking game have an apropriate enviroment and FEEL as scary as it should..

    Catnt wait for the second one, really, those dudes that made the first one did a great job ( unlike the bad review job on this website.. I really dont get those bad reviewers )

  • FogHeart #47 2 years ago

    Zombies...check.
    Monsters...check.
    Space...check.
    Alien civilisation...check.
    Evil government henchperson...check.
    Religious cult...check.
    Laser beams...check.
    Flamethrowers...check.
    Chainsaw-type weapon...check.
    Machine gun...che...oh, I'm sorry, I've come while thinking about this game AGAIN.

  • markymark22 #48 2 years ago

    Well i thought resi 5 was overrated simply because it felt so dated after dead space. Stand. Shoot. Stand. Shoot. Isaac could move and shoot! So simple. Resi 6 better sort it out!

  • YourMessageHere #49 2 years ago

    @ davisorle

    The clue's in the name, though: re-view. Not reobjectivefact. A good reviewer is a person who can identify how a game will strike most people, what about it will appeal or not, and then articulates his/her views on this in an easily digested manner. How the game 'feels like playing' is absolutely integral to reviewing. How else can you possibly do this, other than listing statistics that mean absolutely nothing or quoting marketing copy?

  • Murton #50 2 years ago

    Been thinking about this and as for Clarke leading the sequel, there's plenty of ways around that. Ret-con so that he falls asleep on the ship at the end and the attack we saw was a nightmare inspired by his ordeals on the Ishimura. Perhaps sequel Clarke is a clone or possibly some kind of personality graft, he was using a cybernetic rig after all. Could even survive the attack in the ending somehow, as much as I want to know how Visceral pull this one off I very much hope that they keep it a secret until release day, Dead Space was a huge surprise to so many people when it released last year, it would be great if those people could be surprised again when the sequel hits in the hopefully not too distant future. My guess is next October on the Friday right before Halloween, same as the first one.

  • bad09 #51 2 years ago

    @ Zedfragg

    I guess we are playing different PC versions as the one I'm playing at the mo is brilliant, mind you I'm using a controller.

    There is a workaround for the capped FPS that Darren has mentioned on EG a couple of times. Turn V-Sync off in the game and force it through your graphics card options. If you ask me though it makes Isaac move a little too fast and takes away from the feeling of wearing that big space suit
    Edited by 1 at 08/12/09 @ 07:30

  • legendmir #52 2 years ago

    this game was an 8/10 imo

    let down by samey combat but boosted by great atmosphere / back story / immersion and graphics

    and possibly a 9 if you have a soft spot for sci fi
    Edited by 1 at 08/12/09 @ 09:26

  • flaming.carrot #53 2 years ago

    Were the necromorphs alien? That was never really revealed as far as I remember. The only thing of possible alien extraction was the original marker.

  • itsfuzzy #54 2 years ago

    Yes. Total result.
    Totally shit myself playing this, I was like a little girl.
    Now got to buy a few spare pairs of boxers for playing it.

  • Fletche #55 2 years ago

    Hmmm extra tools/weapons, I would actually like it if he had less, say he is now in a position where items to use as weapons are in very short supply meaning you have to be a little more inventive and cautious with their use. Would have increased the levels of tension and claustraphobia. Never sure why developers always think more is better when it comes to weapons.

  • kimchibaka #56 2 years ago

    Absolutely shocked to read that EG gave the brilliant original 7/10...that's way WAY worse than the recent Ratchet review that marked it down for *shock horror* being a pure sequel to the winning formula of the rest of the series.

    Oh well, at least they fessed up in this article...I guess.

    Dead Space was one of the best games I played last year, despite its few faults, easily a 9/10 for me,and definitely 2 points ahead of RE5 (so that should have been a 5?) and I cannot wait for the sequel.

  • TRUTH #57 2 years ago

    I hope it doesn't go all macho and guns galore...atmosphere, and adventure and more puzzles with less shooting will improve the game, and hero should have no voice actor - his silence throughout Dead Space gave a perfect mood for the game.

    Better then Resi 5, all the Silent Hills game (they never actually been that good in the 1st place) - best horror game so-far.

  • andyconr #58 2 years ago

    With all this talk of Dead Space 2, I was considering buying no.1. I played the demo but didn't think it was great, is the actual game better?

  • stryker1121 #59 2 years ago

    Great game...although there were sections when I got a little weary of the "tote that barge lift that bale" formula...however the game really picks up toward the end, and the sections where you're basically trapped in a room w/ a half dozen creatures are intense and pack the punch that Resi5 did not.

  • AphoticCosmos #60 2 years ago

    Dead Space was easily one of the best games I've ever played - I look forward with relish to DS2.

    And more than a year on, I still fail to see how Eurogamer screwed up their review so much. 7/10 was just . . . wrong