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Dead Space tops on Riccitiello's list of faves

by Justin McElroy on Nov 6th 2009 8:00PM

When John Riccitiello needs to unwind from a long day as CEO of EA, he does it with dismemberment. That's the word from an interview with Fox Business in which Riccy (No? Well, worth a shot) names Dead Space as his favorite game of the past 12 months. We're assuming he's not talking about the Wii version of the game, since it's a statistical improbability that he owns it.

After his revelation that digital distribution offset retail sluggishness, the publishing boss went on to say it takes him around "50 to 60 hours" to finish a typical game. It prompts the question: Exactly how many times is he planning on fending off the necromorph threat?

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Tags: dead-space, ea, Electronic-Arts, fox, John-riccitiello, visceral-games

Reader Comments (34)

That's easy, its considered the best game EA has ever published.

A CEO playing the games he makes?

Maybe we should get Kodick to play MW, then have him play MW2.

Yeah and make him play that buggy ass Spiderman: WOS.

Oh God, no! He'd freak out...

"We're giving away ALL OF THIS for ONLY $60?!"

then proceed to sell us 85% of the game in DLC format.

More like 95%. Your first gun starts out at 20$. Everyother gun costs another 20$. 50$ to unlock achievements. 10$ to make a save file. So, to start out, costs 160$.

I have to agree that its one of my favorites in the past year too. Played it through about 3 times and I enjoyed them all. Too bad it didnt sell that well.

I think that's what sequels are for. A lot of new IP won't sell as well as other more popular franchises even if it is good, simply because it's new. People don't want to chance a game when they buy it, and not everyone is going to read reviews and look for trailers of games before they buy them.

Now, Dead Space 2, or even Dead Space 3, those games should sell amazingly (at least I hope they do, I can't wait for more Dead Space and Mirror's Edge).

Now I feel like an asshole for buying mirrors edge a couple days ago for around $10.

Haven't played it yet, but the comic/animated shorts off of GT are goddamned brutal and amazing. I'll probably check the movie out as well, despite how bad I hear it is.

50 - 60 hours to beat a game? How bad is he at Dead Space to take that long?

Great game though! Easily one of the best in a while in the "survival horror" genre to come out. Up there with RE4.

Depends on what you mean by "beating it". Getting all the achievements requires several play-throughs.

Eh, I don't count that as "beating the game" because trophies/achievements didn't always exist and I believe we were still "beating games" back in the super nintendo era and such.

Dead Space really scared the pooped out of me. It was good poop though...

I agree, it was an amazing game. Even though it came out like 5 or 6 months earlier, it showed Resident Evil 5 how a few things should be done.

What, make Resident Evil 5: Extraction?

Oh wait...

Dead Space: Darkside Chronicles !!

Resident Space: Evil Extraction 5!!

I love making collaborated names for games.

When asked for comment on his favorite game of Activision's, Bobby Kotick responded:
"I only get a few chances to play Guitar Hero on the DS when I'm not counting my money."

I don't really get all the Activision hate. I get that they're a huge company and that there are a billion version of "Guitar Hero" but do they make shitty games? I'm seriously asking here.

For his last birthday his wife bought him an automated money counter, to count it for him.

He asked for the receipt, returned it, and told his wife, "Thanks, but I prefer to count my money by hand... thanks for the money though!"

Most of the Activision/Kotick hate is because of how he behaves and comes across in his statements more than just generic anti-corporate fist shaking.

EA have done their best to release some really top quality games in the last couple of years. Meanwhile, Kotick is telling his stockholders than he's basically rushing out as many games as he can in order to get profit from quantity and franchise exploitation rather than releasing quality products. It seems to have worked better (for him) than EA's position, which makes it even more alright to call him an asshole.

P.S. Kotick doesn't play games. He's said that much in interviews.

I tried the demo two days ago. I suck at it. I ain't TOO bad at first person shooters, but every time I started shooting, I'd run out of ammo before the enemies would stop coming and then I'd get mind-raped. ;_;

You must unlearn the headshot. Learn the dismemberment instead.

I had that happen as well when I first played the demo. I just had to stay calm, and aim for the limbs.

Yeah the demo killed me too. I've been meaning to give it another shot.

Fun fact: Dead Space was released on October 14th 2008.

Obviously a man with fine taste.

Dead space is a great game. I haven't had so much fun in a long time. Would highly, highly recommend this game to anyone who hasn't played it.

Sweet! I just picked this up for 20 dollars last week, looks like fun (scary as heck though)

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Such a great game...I picked it up again for Halloween; the perfect game for such an occasion!

I think I screwed up my enjoyment of Dead Space by playing it through on Hard to start with. It was great until about halfway through, then it just got to be grueling. One of the very few times I've regretted starting a game on something other than Normal.

I found normal to be a bit too easy (though admittedly I did die a few times, mainly to my own stupidity).

Dead space was scarier than any movie ive ever seen.

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