In an interview with AusGamers, Visceral's Yara Khoury, who serves as Associate Producer on Dead Space 3, has revealed that players can spend "literally 100 hours" in the weapon crafting component of the game alone, while adding replayability via co-op and beta-missions creates a "deeper game" than any of the previous iterations in the series.
"So this totally ties back into the weapon-crafting feature, and the resource management, where you have to explore the world to find the best resources that get you the best parts, and the most badass weapons that you can make," Yara told us. "So this all ties in together, into that focus in our investment into making more options for our players to explore.
"If you are into weapon crafting, you can spend literally one hundred hours in this thing. If you want to explore all the beta-paths; if you want to replay with the co-op; it’s way more about choice in Dead Space 3: you can really spend a lot of time doing that."
The rest of the interview talks about how the UI changes depending on which environment you're in, resource-management, HALO jumps (and my dislike for its return here), creating tension, Peng and much, much more.
If EA and Motive Studio plan on remaking all the main Dead Space entries, they have to change a lot of what made Dead Space 3 so divisive.
Simple, do not bother with a Dead Space 3 remake. Rather have a new entry for Dead Space.
Yeah I agree. Make a dead space 3, but have an original story/setting. They’ve proven they can do the game justice, and I think they could evolve 2 in a good direction, keeping a similar tone. I’d love s Dead Space 2 and 3 though. The remake was fantastic. Top tier remake, up there with RE2.
Remaking 3 would need to be a reworked and somewhat changed remake as 3 was flawed in most peoples eyes and the worst entry.
WTMG's Kyle Nicol:
"Was Dead Space 3 really that bad?
Well, it’s a complicated question. Dead Space 3 is undeniably the weakest of the trilogy. It’s a game that deviates so far from the original formula, that it throws a lot of what made Dead Space special in the first place out of the window. Although, where it does make up for it is one of the best cooperative shooters on the market, even after all this time. Do I recommend playing this game ten years later? Hell yes. But make sure your expectations are in the right place. It has a lot of problems that bring it down."
With the upcoming Dead Space Remake, we replay and rank the original three games.
Dead Space
Dead Space 2
The Callisto Protocol
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...Lost Planet 3?
They need to seriously continue this ip with a new entry. Even if it's just another movie I don't care I love everything about this game.
.....Crafting weapons, well that sounds bone-chillingly scary! / sarcasm
You're doing it wrong.
Because when I think survival horror I think about spending countless hours crafting guns.
yeah this new gameplay mechanic sucks. I liked the upgrading nodes a lot better than this bs.
I never thought I would be so disinterested in a new Dead Space game.