If you’ve been yearning for more information about the recently announced Dead Space reboot, EA has revealed additional details in a new interview with Motive Studios, the game’s new developers. The developers appear to be taking all of the necessary precautions, even hiring former Visceral Games employees for help and consulting the previous games’ notes and development papers for this project.
The remake is a “passion project” for Motive according to an interview with art director Mike Yazijian, creative director Roman Campos-Oriola, and senior producer Philippe Ducharme. Campos-Oriola noted that he never had the opportunity to work on a survival horror game, which is one of his favourite genres as a gamer. So, when the opportunity to work on Dead Space presented itself, he took it immediately.
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Yazijian, who is also working on Dead Space 2, revealed that he was able to locate his old project notebooks and journals. Seeing all the feedback from the sequel, everything the Visceral team had shared with them while we they producing the game was helpful. There were concept drawings, graphic standards, source materials, notes from their interactions, and the knowledge they obtained which really helped in the development of the remake.
According to Campos-Oriola, the game will be fully recreated in Frostbite, with all new assets, new character models, and new settings – even though they are based on the original designs. There are props, new parts, collision models, and so on, according to him and while everything is being rebuilt from the ground up, the plot and structure will remain the same.
Having said that, the game will be its own creature. According to Yazijian, while Motive will also make decisions about what doesn’t work and how to keep the game relevant to modern consumers.
Dead Space is being developed for the PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and PC at the moment. There is currently no release date set.
