Who is Carver and what are his intentions in the game?Ĭarver is a merciless soldier who’s been deeply and personally affected by the Necromorph scourge. ROH: John Carver was revealed in the first teaser trailer for Dead Space 3 but we don’t know much about him.

You can read my full interview with John Calhoun just below. I took the opportunity to ask John how the team will balance a true survival horror experience with these new gameplay inclusions. Despite the game’s inclusion of co-op and cover based shootouts with human enemies, Visceral wants fans to know that Dead Space will remain a horror experience. “Horror is in the DNA of Dead Space,” as John said. In this interview John discussed what makes Dead Space 3 tick and how the team thrives to make this their most ambitious Dead Space game yet. The Dead Space IP would then be left to languish with no new games for almost a decade, until a reboot of the first game in the series was announced in 2021.Along with my preview of Dead Space 3 I was also given an opportunity to interview the game’s producer John Calhoun.

Such was the backlash following Dead Space 3 that ultimately it resulted in the demise of Visceral Games, who were shut down by EA soon afterwards. Gone is the oppressive survival horror of the original two games, and instead we got a co-operative campaign (because every game back then needed multiplayer, apparently?) and - worse still - the weapons and items in the game were packed full of microtransactions, ruining the immersion (even if you ignored them) and constantly making you question: What happened to my Dead Space?!

Somehow, this translated to publishers EA as 'Ok, those did well - let's completely change Dead Space 3 and fill it full of stuff people don't want!'ĭead Space 3 is a Dead Space game in name only. This was a developer who was riding high on success Dead Space was a fantastic new survival horror IP and its sequel, Dead Space 2, was even better than the first and released to both critical and commercial success.

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