Giant Bomb’s Jeff Grub reported earlier today that EA’s Motive Studio was dealing with a Dead Space 2 remake prior to it was shelved adhering to dull sales of the group’s Dead Space remake in 2014. However, EA has actually rejected Grubb’s coverage, informing IGN, “We don’t normally comment on rumors but there is no validity to this story.”
On Giant Bomb’s Game Mess Mornings program, Grubb stated, “They were working on it, they were working on Dead Space 2 and they are no longer working on it. It is on the shelf because the first game had lackluster sales, is how it was phrased to me.”
He proceeds, including, “As it stands right now, they were working on it; it was in the concepting phase…pre-production, and now that work has been put on the shelf.”
[Game Mess Mornings]According to @JeffGrubb, EA Motive was dealing with a ‘Dead Space 2’ Remake which remained in principle stage yet obtained cancelled/shelved as a result of the dull sales of the very first Remake.
They are currently dealing with Iron Man and Battlefield.https://t.co/iqv0EGNXJX pic.twitter.com/LziW0qx72X
— Knoebel (@Knoebelbroet) April 10, 2024
Grubb exposed this today adhering to the other day’s information from Motive itself, where basic supervisor Patrick Klaus introduced the studio was creating a new team to support EA’s Battlefield franchise while advancement on its Iron Man game with Marvel proceeds. Hours later on, EA rejected Grubb’s case in a declaration to IGN
Following up on IGN‘s record, Grubb stated on X (previously Twitter), “I give you my permission to believe EA if you want, but whenever a company says ‘that isn’t true’ but they don’t specify which part of the story they are talking about, well…yeah. Dead Space 2 was definitely being planned. It had a code name. And they aren’t making it now.”
IGN information supervisor Kat Bailey, that composed IGN‘s tale concerning all this today, reacted to Grubb, stating, “My understanding based on my own sources is that the Dead Space 2 Remake was never considered. Also, EA’s statement was pretty definitive.”
My understanding based upon my very own resources is that the Dead Space 2 Remake was never ever thought about. Also, EA’s declaration was quite clear-cut.
— Kat Bailey (@The_Kat crawler) April 10, 2024
And that’s where it stands today. Grubb stated Motive was dealing with a remake of Dead Space 2 prior to it was shelved adhering to dull sales of in 2014’s Dead Space remake, and EA claims that’s not real. Unfortunately, we’ll likely never ever recognize real tale below, yet if you were holding out hope for a remake of Dead Space 2, it’s not occurring in the meantime it appears.
For what’s it deserves, we asked Dead Space reprise imaginative supervisor Roman Campos-Oriola concerning the opportunity of a Dead Space 2 remake in aninterview conducted a few weeks after the game’s launch His reaction: “…we’ll see how the game performs, what the company wants, what the studio wants, what we as a team we want to do, and we’ll figure it out from there. But for the moment, there’s no specific plan defined.”
For much more, check out Game Informer’s review of Dead Space remake, and after that reviewMotive’s in-development Iron Man game
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