The corpse of Dead Space is being reinimated for Battlefield 6, with the newest trailer for Season 5 seemingly teasing a crossover.
Battlefield 6’s new trailer exhibits off a brand new Las Vegas map that appears like rather a lot of enjoyable, as choppers and machine weapons tear up casinos and skyscrapers alongside The Strip. However then the music fades out, ominous sounds creep in, and it cuts to a bloom-filled scene the place two Dead Space engineers stare up at The Marker, the survival horror sequence’ alien artifact that drills into your mind.
Earlier this 12 months, sequence author Chuck Beaver claimed gross sales have been too low for EA to greenlight a Dead Space 4. Collection co-creator and developer of The Callisto Protocol, Glen Schofield, additionally retired from the business this 12 months after his religious successor did not mild up the business.
Battlefield 6 players on Reddit already noticed potential Dead Space skins, which have been rumored to launch in the Halloween replace this October, in order that’s in all probability what you’ll be able to anticipate. Builders at Cube have beforehand gone on the document to say Battlefield 6 received’t characteristic goofy, immersion breaking skins. That’s carried out now, if these rumors are true.
EA just lately added a Dead Space skin to Skate and charged $40 for it so there’s precedent for skins in the universe. Gamers weren’t pleased with the pores and skin itself or the price, so it’ll be fascinating to see if EA goals for extra reasonable pricing for the subsequent crossover. Battlefield 6 beforehand did a crossover occasion with High Gun, however that is smart in a sport that includes fighter jets.
Battlefield 6’s fifth Season options three new maps, together with Vegas Strip and Space 51, six new weapons and two new autos. You possibly can soar into Vegas on October 13.
As for Dead Space, speaking on the FRVR Podcast, Beaver stated that to recoup the prices of the franchise’s excessive manufacturing values, any new sport would wish to promote over 10 million copies — a tall order for even a breakout horror sport.
“Any of the Resident Evils are promoting round seven million [copies], that’s a reasonably good quantity,” Beaver stated. “However, you understand, corporations now are on the lookout for the subsequent Fortnite. They want one thing that could be a perennial moneymaker… one thing like a single-player bundle sport with no live-service providing that’s prefer it’s only a dinosaur fossil of a enterprise mannequin.”
The Dead Space remake, developed by EA-owned Motive Studio and launched in 2023, was well-received however seems to haven’t carried out sufficient enterprise to persuade the powers that be at the mega writer to put money into a follow-up. IGN’s Dead Space remake overview returned a 9/10. We stated: “Dead Space is an excellent remake and undoubtedly the definitive solution to expertise one of the finest survival horror shooters that Capcom by no means made.”
“Horror video games have a bit of a ceiling, you understand, and I believe the quantity again in [former EA VP] Frank Gibeau’s day was 5 million items to maintain happening Dead Space,” Beaver continued. “I believe the quantity is like 15 million items now, given the price of issues,” he added, earlier than joking that it was “a unhappiness in capitalism for all of us to endure, till AI makes it apparently straightforward for you and I simply kind ‘make Dead Space 4.'”
In October final 12 months, Schofield instructed IGN he hoped to convey the franchise again to life, regardless of EA’s lack of curiosity. “I went to [EA] just lately and so they’re like, ‘No, we’re not anymore,’” he stated. “I stated, ‘I can get again the management staff. I would like the fashions from EA Motive and I can prevent 30 to 40 million {dollars} on the concept that I’ve.’ And, they’re like, ‘No.'”
“I’ve fairly just a few concepts that I am able to go along with and one of them is Dead Space 4,” Schofield continued. “The truth that EA simply obtained purchased, I believe there’s a chance. I’m already making calls.”
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