The corpse of Dead Space is being reinimated for Battlefield 6, with the newest trailer for Season 5 seemingly teasing a crossover.
Battlefield 6’s new trailer shows off a new Las Vegas map that appears like numerous enjoyable, as choppers and machine weapons tear up casinos and skyscrapers alongside The Strip. However then the music fades out, ominous sounds creep in, and it cuts to a bloom-filled scene the place two Lifeless Area engineers stare up at The Marker, the survival horror sequence’ alien artifact that drills into your mind.
Earlier this yr, sequence author Chuck Beaver claimed sales were too low for EA to greenlight a Dead Space 4. Collection co-creator and developer of The Callisto Protocol, Glen Schofield, also retired from the industry this year after his non secular successor did not mild up the business.
Battlefield 6 players on Reddit already noticed potential Lifeless Area skins, which have been rumored to launch within the Halloween replace this October, in order that’s most likely what you’ll be able to anticipate. Builders at Cube have beforehand gone on the document to say Battlefield 6 won’t feature goofy, immersion breaking skins. That’s performed now, if these rumors are true.
EA just lately added a Dead Space skin to Skate and charged $40 for it so there’s precedent for skins within the universe. Gamers weren’t pleased with the pores and skin itself or the price, so it’ll be fascinating to see if EA goals for extra reasonable pricing for the following crossover. Battlefield 6 previously did a crossover event with Top Gun, however that is smart in a sport that includes fighter jets.
Battlefield 6’s fifth Season options three new maps, together with Vegas Strip and Space 51, six new weapons and two new autos. You possibly can bounce into Vegas on October 13.
As for Lifeless Area, speaking on the FRVR Podcast, Beaver stated that to recoup the prices of the franchise’s excessive manufacturing values, any new sport would want to promote over 10 million copies — a tall order for even a breakout horror sport.
“Any of the Resident Evils are selling around seven million [copies], that’s a fairly good quantity,” Beaver stated. “However, , firms now are on the lookout for the following Fortnite. They want one thing that could be a perennial moneymaker… one thing like a single-player package deal sport with no live-service providing that’s prefer it’s only a dinosaur fossil of a enterprise mannequin.”
The Lifeless Area remake, developed by EA-owned Motive Studio and launched in 2023, was well-received however seems to haven’t performed sufficient enterprise to persuade the powers that be on the mega writer to put money into a follow-up. IGN’s Dead Space remake review returned a 9/10. We stated: “Lifeless Area is an outstanding remake and undoubtedly the definitive technique to expertise among the best survival horror shooters that Capcom by no means made.”
“Horror video games have a little bit of a ceiling, , and I believe the quantity again in [former EA VP] Frank Gibeau’s day was 5 million items to maintain happening Lifeless Area,” Beaver continued. “I believe the quantity is like 15 million items now, given the price of issues,” he added, earlier than joking that it was “a unhappiness in capitalism for all of us to undergo, till AI makes it apparently straightforward for you and I simply sort ‘make Lifeless Area 4.'”
In October final yr, Schofield told IGN he hoped to bring the franchise back to life, regardless of EA’s lack of curiosity. “I went to [EA] just lately and so they’re like, ‘No, we’re not anymore,’” he stated. “I stated, ‘I can get again the management staff. I would like the fashions from EA Motive and I can prevent 30 to 40 million {dollars} on the concept that I’ve.’ And, they’re like, ‘No.'”
“I’ve fairly a couple of concepts that I am able to go together with and one among them is Lifeless Area 4,” Schofield continued. “The truth that EA simply acquired purchased, I believe there’s a chance. I’m already making calls.”
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