Lamenting Dead Space 2
Visceral Games may or may not be killing me. Visceral Games used to be known as EA Redwood Shores. EA Redwood Shores made Dead Space, one of my favorite Xbox 360 games.
Visceral Games is now making Dante's Inferno. It's a God of War-esque button smasher. They took a low-key walk through hell and social commentary, and turned it into blood soaked tits and violence. It is a remarkable departure from the source as well as an enormous shift from the tone of Dead Space.
Dead Space has a lot of action and violence but it's deliberate. You're encouraged to conserve ammo by taking aimed shots at limbs. There's an equipment upgrade system that allows you to choose what upgrades you want and how you get to them. It has a lot of scares and shocks but it's also nearly impossible to fight off a crowd by panicking and wildly blasting away. There's only two actual guns in the game! The rest are industrial tools!
After Dante's Inferno, Visceral's focus will shift to Dead Space 2. There is so little information that has excited me about Dead Space 2 that it may drop off of my wanted list entirely. From what I've read, it features more wide open environments, more aggressive gameplay, and a no-longer-silent protagonist! So what, they're turning Dead Space into Dante's Inferno in space?
For being an unreleased and, thus far, barely developed game, I am amazingly bitter and unexcited about what should be an impossibly easy sale.