Despite the original Dead Space getting the remake treatment, the same isn't happening for its sequel, at least not now.

UPDATE 8.15pm: EA has responded to a report claiming developer EA Motive had been in the early stages of production on a Dead Space 2 remake before the project was cancelled due to “lacklustre sales” of the first game.

In a statement provided to IGN, the publisher wrote, “We don’t normally comment on rumours but there is no validity to this story.” However, journalist Jeff Grubb - who originally broke the Dead Space 2 remake story - is sticking to his guns. Grubb shot back on social media, writing, “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.”

While EA’s statement certainly looks like a blanket denial, Grubb remained adament: “Dead Space 2 was definitely being planned. It had a code name. And they aren’t making it now.”

  • @Chee_KoalaEnglish
    4•9 months ago

    Totally, I mean I was happy to hear that they were doing a remake, because getting the original to run on modern hardware is doable but not fun. I had a recurring crash that halted my campaign progress. But as you say the original only did ‘okay’…

    • @avaterEnglish
      -1•9 months ago

      Totally, I mean I was happy to hear that they were doing a remake, because getting the original to run on modern hardware is doable but not fun.

      I didn’t play the remake cause I didn’t care and the xbox 360 version is running just fine for me with 60fps on the modern Xbox but did the original performed somehow worse on other platforms?

      • @Chee_KoalaEnglish
        2•9 months ago

        The original PC version does not run out of the box on my modern windows PC, so thats why I was happy to hear about the remake. I Did not see this was posted on an Xbox community, otherwise I would have specified that part!

        • @avaterEnglish
          2•9 months ago

          Ah okay didn’t know that. Back in the days I primarily played on Xbox and PlayStation so I still have my Xbox 360 copy of Dead Space and never played it on another system.