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Rumor: Dead Space 3 to Feature Co-Op Play?
Over on IGN, there are reports from an anonymous source that the recently confirmed Dead Space 3 from EA will feature drop-in/drop-out cooperative play. According to the post, which went live yesterday, the game’s story will change depending on whether or not players choose co-op mode. The second player will take the role of “a man with a gnarly scar on his face, an engineering RIG of his own, and glowing red eyes peering from his helmet.”
Apparently the traumas that lead character Isaac Clarke will experience won’t necessarily happen with the second player, though the second character may, in fact, still be a part of the single-player campaign. In addition, the two players will use their telekinesis powers to work together to get through levels, and will be able to share ammo and heal each other, says the source.
Based on the what’s in the post (and also keeping in mind the fact that I haven’t actually played any Dead Space games yet), it sounds as though the partner may be something of a figment of Clarke’s imagination…or a physical manifestation of his imagination made real. He has mental powers, right? That can happen. That’s my guess, at least…which isn’t really worth a lot.
EA will formally announce the game and offer some more details at E3 in June. Until then, we’ve got mostly speculation and these anonymous sources to go on. What say you?
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The idea of the character being a figment of his imagination does sound like it fits the whole drop in/drop out Co-op. If your partner disconnects, it would be like if Issac’s mind is saying “Dude, screw that shit. I’m out”
Like my imaginary friend, Miss Hand! She drops in whenever I need to wipe. She also pops up whenever a hot pic crosses my screen… O-oh! Here she comes! :D
U havent played Dead space yet ?
dude ur missing some serious shit
The direction their heading in with this franchise scares me and reaks more and more of the charge a dollar for ammo mentality which is a shame because DS1 was the best horror game I played until I found amnesia(still can’t get through a play through of that game the atmosphere leaves nightmares), then DS2 diverged from scary and become more brutal and disgusting and instead turned itself into an action game that almost focuses on being disgusting, not to mention the advertising they used to try to see the second game(really EA, you know my mother liked the thing what makes you think she’ll hate dead space),
Now this idea of Co-op further removes that there will be any really good chilling moments in the game there needs to be atmosphere that plays so well that the neck hairs stand at a attention and you move your legs out from under your desk/or off the sofa because your bodies telling you to run but your glued to the screen.
The point i’m trying to make before I went off on the tangent there is that i’ll be surprised if DS3 is actually scary and doesn’t just devolve into a linear third person prototype wannabe. Given Ea’s track record and DS2, i’m not convinced that the game will be anything other than a basic third person action shooter that provides a few “army of darkness” type of scares also with another cliffhanger ending(Two hinted at least 5 or 6 more games we’ll see how that pans out…ugh!)