The other challenge was creating a co-op mode that felt additive to the experience. We didn’t just want to have an AI bot follow the player around and then when you hit a button and someone starts controlling that guy. With our co-op we wanted to make sure that whatever we did felt unique. SP: We’re not doing competitive multiplayer this time – we’ve done that – but it was a big help in us understanding how to build an online game. Do you think Dead Space 3’s co-op play is a better fit? PSB: You introduced competitive multiplayer in Dead Space 2 which had a mixed response from gamers. Those are the blocks we’re building with. Those are the things a Dead Space game needs to have. That means intense atmosphere, engaging narrative, thrilling action, horror, survival, tension. We’re really not into the stereotypes of ‘it’s an action game’ or ‘it’s a horror game’, and so on. The other thing we set out to do was to really deliver on what the essence of a Dead Space game is. I know it sounds funny, but we needed to set a target for ourselves. Well, we said ‘you know what? **** that, we’re going to make a AAAA game’. Everybody says they want to make a AAA game. One of the things we talked about was how do we make the best game we’ve ever done? So, we came up with a weird saying: we want to make a AAAA game. Steve Papoutsis, Producer of Dead Space 3: When we started work on Dead Space 3 we set a couple of things in front of the team. PlayStation.Blog: What goals did you set yourself when you first started work on Dead Space 3? We sat down with the game’s producer Steve Papoutsis to find out how – and why – developer Visceral Games has implemented this new system and what fans of the series can expect from reluctant hero Isaac Clarke’s latest adventure. While the game is fully playable as a solo experience, if you play with friend you’ll have an expanded story and get to experience a number of extra sequences and set-pieces. The optional drop-in, drop-out multiplayer lets a second player join in the story as new character Sergeant John Carver. While the first two games followed very similar templates, the latest installment really mixes things up by introducing full co-op play to the main campaign. Next February sees the release of the third main entry in EA’s critically lauded sci-fi survival horror series, Dead Space.
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