Siliconera reports that it has first details on the fiction of Dead Space 3, claiming that the next entry takes place on the planet Tau Volantis. The planet’s “white-out blizzard conditions” may trade the blackness of previous Dead Space games for pure white, a new method for keeping the beasts of Visceral Games’ horror franchise well hidden from view.
Those beasts, according to Siliconera’s mole, are known as “the hive mind” in Dead Space 3.
EA and Visceral are rumoured to be already hard at work on Dead Space 3, but none of this is official yet.
More rumoured details on the story, potentially spoiler-ish, at Siliconera.
Dead Space 3 Takes Place On A Frozen Planet, First Details Inside [Siliconera]
Whiplash
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 8:53 AMIcy wastelands… How original.
DAN!
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 9:02 AMAliens take over a powerless ship in space.
Never been done before.
Shane
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 9:08 AMOriginal is overrated. The main draw of Dead Space is the incredibly well-constructed atmosphere, and well-paced horror-survival adventure.
As a genre, it tends not to be original… doesn’t stop it from being creative, though.
MarkD
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 2:29 PM“the incredibly well-constructed atmosphere”
I couldn’t disagree more. It looked nice, it was nicely lit, and it sounded nice (apart from the awful dialogue) – but you need more than this to have a well-constructed atmosphere. Its actually the game mechanic that creates the atmosphere, all the above is just there to cement it. Dead Space ended up like playing Time Crisis with your screen brightness down.
mattroe
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 9:22 AMCare to share a setting of ANY game in the last few years that’s been original?
Hamish
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 10:12 AMKatamari Damacy.
DAN!
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 10:35 AMIt was set on earth/the universe/some dude’s room.
Not exactly an original setting.
Original game, but.
Hamish
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 11:09 AMYeah, but you are a tiny man with a ball, rolling up things in rooms and cities stuffed with the weirdest shit imaginable in order to create planets after your dad destroyed them all when he was on a bender.
Oh, no, wait, there was that one Coen brothers movie where you were a tiny man with a ball, rolling up things in rooms and cities stuffed with the weirdest shit imaginable in order to create planets after your dad destroyed them all when he was on a bender. Mea culpa!
SOX
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 10:43 AMNot even an original game with all these:
We Love Katamari
Me & My Katamari
Beautiful Katamari
Katamari Damacy Mobile
I Love Katamari
Katamari Amore
Katamari Damacy No-Vita
Hamish
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 11:06 AMThe original game was pretty original, though. Original. Just because it had sequels doesn’t mean that it wasn’t original. What the hell kind of logic is that?
SOX
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 11:19 AMSure it was original when it was the only thing that existed but it would be a stretch to say that the original game came out “in the last few years” – unless 2004 is suddenly not 7 years ago.
The games I listed that have been released (or to be released) in the years since then are decidedly unoriginal.
Hamish
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 11:24 AMThere was no Katamari Damacy before Katamari Damacy came out. Ipso facto: original.
“Few” is not a hard-and-fast kind of word, is it? I would understand your nitpicking if I was talking about Jet Force Gemini or Rez or something.
SOX
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 11:30 AMhttp://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww353/soxinthebox/tl6p3hfxq.gif
Hamish
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 12:26 PMI am rubber, you are gifs.
L3gato
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 12:58 PMHe was asking for a setting that is original. It was set on earth…NEXT
Milton
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 2:13 PMOriginal is a myth. No games come from a void.
Reoh
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 9:03 AMThere better be a hoth pop-culture reference damnit.
Michael
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 9:13 AMI want to know how they’ll tell the story without rehashing the story from DS2 in another setting. If you finished DS2 you’ll know they kinda leave the door open, but it sounded like it would just be DS2 all over again. I hope I’m proven wrong.
TheLastQuestion
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 9:29 AMIt has to be some variant of necromorph. Having a Dead Space game without necromorphs is like having a Gears of War game without the Locust.
Plus, I can’t be the only one who was reminded of The Thing when playing through the first Dead Space. To me, this makes perfect sense.
jim_gun
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 9:35 AMHaha yeah my first thought when seeing the image was The Thing.
Necromorphs actually kind of look like the monster(s) in The Thing.
Nevertheless, looking forward to DS3, thoroughly enjoyed the first 2.
Dunnowhathuh
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 10:30 AMWill be awesomely different if they can pull it off. Not very often anyone tries to convey horror without including darkness. Granted, I’m guessing they won’t totally wipe out the darkness.
Cats
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 1:07 PMShould be interesting. Never played the first 2, but using white rather then black is different.
Milton
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 2:15 PMInteresting approach. I do like that they’re trying to do something a bit different. Although it’s an obvious risk, I think a 3rd entry similar to Dead Space 2 would stagnate series. Hope it pays off!
MarkD
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 2:23 PMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouZkkIsLiNg
AerintheADEQUATE
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 12:57 AMIf they’re going for “The Thing” then I might yet approve of this.
If it’s more of a ‘Lost Planet: Extreme Conditions’ type thing then “no thank you, sir” indeed.