Dead Space 2 development reconfirmed by LinkedIn profile

by Jason Dobson on May 9th 2009 10:30PM

You might want to sit down for this (you look tired). Judging by an update to Electronic Arts' Pratik Patel's LinkedIn page, work on Dead Space 2 is already underway. The engineering guru updated the page to include his role on the still as-yet-unannounced sequel, on which he is serving as the game's technical/development director.

Hardly shocking, we know. Like a necromorph's limbs, any real doubt of Dead Space getting a sophomore outing was severed with EA's own Frank Gibeau and Glenn Schofield admitting as much just days after the original's release. Nothing else is yet known, though with E3 just around the corner and Dead Space Extraction dismembering Wii shelves later this year, we don't expect to be retiring our trusty plasma cutter any time soon.

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Tags: dead-space, dead-space-2, dead-space-extraction, ea, electronic-arts, Microsoft, sequel, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (74)

God I love dead space. So much better than RE5.

Agreed.

DS2 needs some form of co-op or multiplayer though

@SiN: Nah, what made DS so much fun was being totally alone.

I do wonder tho, since the original DS team is making Dante's Inferno, who is actually making the sequel?

you know I would of strongly disagreed with that a couple of months ago but I believe you right.

RE5 was the biggest let down.

@ obie

The best part of co-op is that it's optional ;)

Still a Left 4 dead style multiplayer would be nice. Just slower paced, and more focused on survival type game mode. Basically horde except with real people instead of NPC's.

So a co-op Disaster: Day of Crisis?

That would work quite well actually.

Just because past games fail at it does not mean it can't be done. It may take a bit of creativity though. Such as your suggestion, putting players in scenarios that make them have to hurry to escape something like a space station crashing etc, all the while other players can be necromorphs trying to kill you.

@ Sin: I a huge co-op fan, but not all games work well with them. Especially if they replace a co-op player with NPC characters in single player mode.

RE5 was fine, but it was the least spooky of the bunch with Sheva always being there next to me. But hey, that's just me.

@ obie

When i say co-op i basically mean stick a clone of the main character in there with you and you both kill stuff together. That person would no impact on story regardless and be nonexistent if you so choose to play alone. Just use your imagination a bit instead of trying to shoot down my ideas.

@ Sin: We were just having a discussion, calm down kiddo.
I understand you wanna play DS2 with your mom by your side.
But you are right I used my imagination, and now conclude your idea *really* sucks.

Coming from a diehard Resident Evil fan, I even have to agree that Dead Space was a deal better than Resident Evil 5.

However... I pray for the soul of anyone who dares to compare any horror game to Resident Evil 4.

OP: My opinion: Dead Space was a good game, but not great, RE5 was not as good as RE4, I was expecting RE4 + System Shock 2 for Dead Space, which is why I thinnk it's safe that I say Dead Space was good but not great .

Amen to that!

Both Silent Hill: Homecoming and Resident Evil 5 sucked and completely let me down, though RE5 not as much as the rather terrible SH: Homecoming.

Dead Space, on the other hand, came out of left field and became my favorite survival horror game of all time. EA really knocked it out of the park with that game.

SH and RE are dead to me now. My survival horror fandom lives for Dead Space.

I agree. SH: Homecoming was pretty bad. Any game that they are too lazy to even implement invert controls for you know is going to be a piece of crap.

I do have to admit though I would love to play a new fatal frame game. Esp if it was played from the first person perspective.

@obie

lol Internet tough guy. You're a joke, you call me kiddo, and say I want to play DS2 with my mom (BTW Happy mothers to any potential mothers on the interwebz lol) yet I'm the one talking normal without being offensive.

I was basically just asking for you to give constructive criticism instead of literally saying "your idea *really* sucks". However, I now understand that may be too difficult for your narrow mind.

"Just because past games fail at it does not mean it can't be done."

The hard part about this is that it spreads out company resources, but yeah, as long as they can afford the manpower, they shouldn't give up on incorporating a MP set-up.

My main hope for the second game is further development of the story as well as making the game less linear. It would be fun to incorporate more elements of stealth and randomness instead of necromorphs always knowing where you are and coming out only on exact trigger events (and you of course knowing exactly where they're coming from if you've already played the game once).

dead space does not need any sort of multiplayer it defeats the object of the game.
This is exactly why Bioshock 2 will fail. With highly polised visuals and the best audio in a game and on my 360 absolutly no bugs imo making it an outstanding single player game, why ruin a great game by adding multiplayer that to be fair people will hardly play. There is plenty of online stuff about to keep you occupied. Cant wait for the new one rumors about that it might be released q4 this year

Add me fella if you want to try and hack some Gears sometime; gt - MarkezJM

Whoa, Dobson, you spilled your LinkedIn in my gaming news. I came up with 185 results for Pratik Patel when I logged in and searched for him, got a chuckle when I noticed on his profile that he did some game development on the 32x when he was with Wave Software.

Dobson, you're 3 degrees from me!

PS - I had to do some serious googling as I'd never heard of Wizardry 7 - http://www.korseby.net/spiele/wizardry/wizardry7_2.gif

non sequitur post is non sequitur

i read this as massive dead space 1 price drop

yay :)

I read this as you haven't bought Dead Space yet

fail ):

I haven't bought it yet either, waiting for Steam sale.

Guys, if any game was worth full price last year, it was Dead Space. Seriously, just get it. Totally worth it!

I would, but with 2 kids and not a lot of work, my gaming budget is very limited. If i wasn't buying GH:Metallica and Pikmin 2 then maybe.

Gamefly, buying single player games is never worth it, for me anyways.

I haven't bought it either. It was a good game though. *cough*

Play me away dino cat piano guy

do want

Are we Humans? Or are we Dancers?

I now understand why Chris D made a gay fish comment after I uttered 'oh fishsticks' in remorse after one of my comments got borked and didn't show up as a reply. Thank you knowyourmeme.com, keeping me hip since, well, like a couple minutes now. Thank you, oh wise internet; teacher, mother, secret lover.

"You might want to sit down for this (you look tired)"
How did you know i was tired? GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!

I can't wait. One of my favorite games ever.

I really hope they find a way to add multiplayer. I'll forgive no coop (though it would be awesome if there was at least 2-player coop) but competitive is a must and is TOTALLY doable.

Weapon unlocks at levels or something...or maybe a purchasing system and then for leveling up, you get a node to insert into an upgrade slot, etc.

It could be awesome.

The weapon system is already perfect in my opinion, so i hope they don't change that. The only problem i had with the first Dead Space is that there could have been more different and varied enemies to deal with, and perhaps a more varied setting (as opposed to 90% metal corridors).

Since the necromorphs seem to twist the original creature they infect, i hope the game will be set into a different setting that includes more creatures they can "necromorphizise". How about if Isaac had to land on an intergalactic cruise ship that includes a Zoo. It would be interesting to see necromorph animals. Necromorph Giraffe would be seriously scary!

^ you've been playing too much RE: Outbreak File 2, lol.

I do agree with you on enemy assortment, and some slight tightening up of controls (there needs to be a on-the-fly statis refill button instead of having to go into inventory).

God, I loved the first one.

Here's hoping that the franchise continues to swell awesomeness.

@Moptimus - I thought he was saying denser, not dancer???

YES! Sequel PLEASE! Just don't let it be released this year..its too soon. And you know what guys, no I DO NOT want multiplayer! Zero! Not even Co-Op! The best part of Dead Space was being completely isolated. As much as I love Co-Op, there seems to be a much slimmer selection of truly great single player games these days. There is nothing like getting totally sucked into a fantastic and atmospheric single player game. I loved RE5, but the story was cut short to make way for a fast-paced co-op experience. I want survival horror from the only game that got it right this gen!

I'm not into horror games. Don't make fun of me, but I can't play scary games. The extent of my horror gameness is nazi zombies. But is it really worth it to play this game. Should I just drink a bunch of red bull or something and buy this game and play it, or is it super scary?

Dead Space was my first survival horror game (though I do watch horror flicks), and I didn't really find it any scarier than say, Half-Life 2. I can only recall two times I was actually startled, but there was definitely a feeling of tension the entire time, kind of like The Path. On a scare-scale of 1 (being Pokemon) and 10 (being the last Joystiq Podcast photoshop) I'd give it a 6 overall.

Once you get used to the fact the every body jumps at you, or will eventually, the game isn't that scary. It's still a bit creepy, but that's it.

Twinkle twinkle little star...

Survival horror has become one of my favorite genres. On the other hand, I am unable to really sit through a horror movie (along the lines of The Ring and that ilk.) I find that while watching a movie, I have no control over what the character does and if I see the monster and they don't, there is nothing that can be done about it. In a videgame I have complete control of the character, making the situation easier to handle.

"You might want to sit down for this (you look tired)."

Who stands up at their computer?

People with out cool swinging office chairs aka retards.

well, since the song is just like a mini mall, Im going to have to say no. But denser feels good, man

shit markez, I never knew you frequented KSK.

HOW DARE YOU KEEP THIS A SECRET FROM KING LASERFACE! HUH? WHAT? HUH?

Wow like we all didn't know EA was getting ready to release sequel upon sequel until the IP was completely raped dry...lol

Like so many survival horror games (or, I suppose games in general) - it was good until the cliched ending :(

That being said, of course the gameplay was fun enough to warrant playing the second one :)

No way, Pratik is working on Dead Space 2? Holy shit, I need to hit him up to get in on some beta testing action.

yeah im getting gamefly over the summer so ill probably get it.

and eat lead.

for some reason, despite all the terrible reviews, i still have faith in it.

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