There are a few quieter, more thickly atmospheric moments, which sadly fall by the wayside as the game gets increasingly louder and more action-packed: a crescendo that kept on going until the end of the underwhelming Dead Space 3. Subtlety is not really the game’s strong point. The game teaches you this by having the words 'CUT OFF THEIR LIMBS' scrawled on a wall in blood. You can’t kill a necromorph just by blasting at it with the game’s array of deadly engineering tools-you have to sever its limbs. To defeat these creatures, you have to take advantage of the game’s ‘strategic dismemberment’ gimmick. Never knowing when a necromorph is going to come bursting through a door or out of shadowy corner is what keeps the tension taut and constant. It’s more like a ghost train, with people in white sheets popping up and going “Boo!” But that’s fine, because the game has no pretensions otherwise. It won’t affect you on some deep, psychological level, and it won’t tease out deep-seated primal fears. It falls into the Resident Evil camp of horror games, with cheap jump scares and tension-building looming large in its vocabulary. We never got another Dead Space game after 3, and it's clear to see why.Dead Space isn’t that scary. That new direction, and a poor form of early microtransactions, didn't sit well with most fans and the game ended up also being a disappointment, if for different reasons. Dead Space 3 featured a heavier focus on co-op and action, which was no doubt a result of Dead Space 2's disappointing sales. It's interesting to look back on this now. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. But it underperformed, and meeting expectations are as important Wilson was careful not to reveal whether or not the game was profitable, just that it sold below expectations given its budget. This wasn't enough, according to Wilson, who also said that the figure was below expectations.

Wilson revealed that Dead Space 2 cost $60 million to make and ended up selling 4 million copies. Dead Space 2 in particular was a topic of conversation on his Twitter feed. Wilson, who's currently working on an unannounced project at Bethesda Game Studios, was at Visceral during the heady days of Dead Space. The key point here is expectations, according to level designer Zach Wilson. Particularly, how Dead Space is often looked at by EA as an under-performing franchise, despite being loved by players everywhere. In the wake of the sad news of EA shuttering Visceral Games, one former staff member opened up about the beloved Dead Space series.

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