Dead Space Extraction is EA 'experiment' in mature content for Wii

Too bad EA doesn't realize that rail shooters have a small audience and shouldn't represent mature games in general.

2% of 50m is 1 million.

Pretty confident EA is.

Yeah they really could have did something cooler with this franchise on the wii. Oh well.

Dear Ea,

As long as you're making a rails shooter, you will be missing something from me sorely. My money. See, now if you wise up and add the option of FPS or arcade mode play options, you know, you've already done this...remember Medal of Honor 2: Heroes on the Wii?

So no matter how much money you spend for good reviews and no matter how many RE fans you try to trick into giving you their government debt notes - you won't dupe me.

You have a chance here, don't fuck it up. Give a robust experience for players of all ranges. Give a product that will appeal to as many gamers as possible, because the casual base isn't going to get this off the ground for you on Wii.

You know I'm tight with the bells, so don't test me brah.

Nook

p.s. - I know you've coached your devs to not refer to this as a game that is 'on rails' - come on though - we haven't ingested THAT much fluoride yet. Please don't insult us....or we'll go right back to talking about the EA from...you know...all those years before 2006. When you sucked ass, I feel you've been giving an honest go the past few years.

take me out keyboard cat!

While I'm not sure about how successful this will ultimately be, he does have a good point. You can't blame a Wii game for not selling just because it's a mature game. It also has to do with the quality. If this game is made well and recognized by critics/media as being a great game, it will get attention from gamers that might result in them plunking down money for it.

We're not disinterested ... we're sick of your silly low production value tie-ins and minigames crapcollections. I bought all the "bigger" titles so far especially the "mature" ones. Some were good but most of them were just ridiculously bad. I know you can't hold them to the "Next Gen" standards but even for last gen technology and gameplay what I've seen so far is pathetic for the best selling platform.

"but there's going to be 50 million Wiis out there by the time the game comes out"

There was around 50 million when madworld came out, and that did it a whole lot of good right? Now you're expecting a rail shooter to do a ton better than that?

It's going to be fun watching the internet implode again when this ends up bombing (looking forward to the epic implosion that The Conduit will cause when it bombs too).

I can't wait for the day where games like Dead Space and GTA can come out for a Nintendo system without everyone making a big deal about it.

Does anyone remember back when Mortal Kombat and Wolfenstein first made their way to SNES? Man, those were the days. Gotta love the removal / recoloring of blood sprites.

Yeah, but Eurocom is developing this not Redwood Shores. And I'm sure they'll do as good of a job of this as the rest of the stuff they've done recently...... oh

Yeah, I'm not buying it. Not the game I mean, I AM buying it, it's their statement.

Everyone is just saying how their game is 'an experiment for mature themed titles on Wii/DS', like GTA: Chinatown Wars, among others. It just sounds like they are trying to pull together extra sales from people who want to support said mature themed titles on Wii/DS.

Or perhaps I'm just reading too mcuh into it.

That's the fun of these "experimental" titles, you don't put as much work into them, because they're just experiments, and then they don't perform as well, and you declare that the experiment failed

We must move beyond this.

@insight
Well they sold already loads more than 50,000.And they keep selling...200k and way more.Way more into the big profits area(where WAW and HOTD 1 2 3 stand happily).Sure, we dont care about sales, as gamers.But they care and they are making more money than expected.Thas encouraging.For the record, previous mature games on the wii didnt sold as well,till last year.Games like Godfather struggled to get in a year where Madworld is now. A million seller like RE UC(actually is above the million), its proof of big sales(after all, plenty of decent mature games for PS3 and 360 dont perform better). And thats a good thing since we will keep getting the influx of mature oriented games for variety.Oh and CW sold over 400k so far.Which is considered very good(you dont see anyone making funny news about CW "bad"perfomance" . Since game sell over time (not in a month, i know its a shock for some), profits are reaped steadily.Give CW a year and you tell me if thats failure.Theres nothing wrong with selling a couple of millions in a year.This EA PR has reasons to be satisfied.

I'm kinda glad this is a rail game now..These types of games, while old, still feel like they're in their infancy, theres so many weird and crazy places they could go. If developers want to experiment with, and evolve the concept of rail games by competing with each other for the attention of rail game fans, then that's cool with me.. I didn't see this happening anywhere else.

Or um.. this isnt hardcore.. grrrrr

I think God Hand sold around 70.000 units. On a much bigger install base. Although at the time the PS2 was flooded with quality software, and in Wii's case, there weren't much games to play.

I don't understand how people can say that GTA : CW failed on the DS. It sold almost half a million by now ; it's not bad at all!

Oh and I will buy this game. I love on-rail shooters (but FPS, not so much. Wierd I know).

While I really was sorely disappointed when they announced this was going to be a rail shooter, I think the idea is sounding better and better. Not better than a proper RE4 style Dead Space game, but... now that I'm getting used to it, I might get it at some point. Used. After the price goes down.

Better than no Dead Space at all on the Wii.

Have these rail shooters evolved beyond shooting yet?

I'm just imagining that these days rail shooters should be able to be so much more. Keeping them on rails is ok as it allows the devs to control the pacing and tension... but limiting them to only "shooting" makes them get repetitive quick.

It seems like they should be able to combine the rail shooter with something like the Myst 1st person adventure to make something more challenging. Mix up the shooting sections with parts where you have to solve puzzles, use items, talk to people, etc.. Introduce inventories, skills, dialog trees. Put in HL2/Zak&Wiki style physics puzzles.

Many of the best FPS games are really linear corridor shooters anyway... but they give the indication of more freedom. and they try and include a few elements other than just shooting.