Last year's remake of A dead place has been a critical hitis reviving the beloved space horror series after a decade long hiatus. However, despite being the second biggest selling game in January 2023 (behind Today war II), apparently this was not successful enough to satisfy EA, and was reported in April of this year that the studio had remade it back Dead space 2 newalthough EA then denied that one had ever been on the job. We have now discovered that it was an attempt by the original creators to appear Dead space 4 earlier this year it was immediately rejected by EA.
In a recent interview (well, it was three weeks ago, but we're all just noticing now), three members of the first A dead place the team – Glen Schofield, Christopher Stone and Bret Robbins – spoke to Download YouTuber Dan Allen (many thanks VG247). But it seems there wasn't even room to try.
As AAA games reach budgets in the hundreds of millions, sales requirements are becoming close to impossible for all but the biggest name franchises. A dead placealthough once famous and acclaimed, it was left untouched for ten years before the remake, and clearly didn't live up to EA's expectations last year – hence, any hopes that the studio would continue a- EA Motive went on to remake the series. he went out the window. But what if the original executive producer, creative director and animation director all came up, and said they had the best ideas to make a new one?
“We're not interested right now, we're considering it, blah blah blah,” Schofield said of EA's response. The trio looked depressed, making it clear how desperate it was.
“We respected their opinion,” Schofield continued, resigned. “They know their numbers and what they need to send. “
“The industry is in a weird place right now,” said Christopher Stone. “People are very reluctant to take chances on things.”
But Stone and Schofield clearly did what they wanted to do Dead space 4. “We have some ideas!” said Schofield, coming to life in the moment.
Original creative director Bret Robbins, of course, sat quietly through this part of the discussion. His development studio, EA-owned Ascendant Studios, has had its own tough time and was recently sold. $100 million flop in 2023, Immortality Aveumsaw half the studio cancelled, and then the remaining company according to statementbefore joining forces with Dan Houser's Absurd Ventures for an unexpected project in September. He's clearly very busy, and probably isn't going to jump ship, even if EA did bite.
A dead place creator Glen Schofield went on to co-found Sledgehammer Games and developed many call of duty entries, before the creation of Striking Distance in 2019 which released…another game that failed to meet sales expectations, The Callisto Protocol. Since then, Schofield seems to have been working alone.
Stone joined VOID Interactive a few months ago, the team that was released last year Ready or Notgame My city explained as “effective enough to be disturbing but too shallow not to veer into farce, or worse, Blue Lives Matter cosplay with fascist overtones and alt-right dog whistles.” However, he is working with the team on “new projects.”
A dead placeat the same time, using assigned judgment. It's unlikely we'll see any more games in the franchise for quite some time, unless of course it's people who make excellent demakes. And the ongoing “failed to meet sales expectations” story is likely to spread through 2025.
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