The idea came from the flotilla section in Dead Space 3, and had the player scavenge supplies in order to survive. It's in this hopeless situation that Dead Space 4 was to be set. We spoke with Wanat to find out more.īy the end of Dead Space 3, humanity is facing its doom. Visceral is dead, but those early ideas for Dead Space 4 live on in the mind of Ben Wanat, who was creative director of Dead Space and is now creative director at Crystal Dynamics. After Dead Space 3 flopped, EA put the studio on the Battlefield series with spin-off Hardline before assigning it a Star Wars game that was eventually cancelled. Unfortunately, Visceral never got the chance to turn them into reality. We've already explored the Dead Space 3 the developers wanted to make, but what about Dead Space 4? It turns out Visceral had ideas - some properly exciting - for a fourth game in the series. Dead Space 3 launched in February 2013 and EA has said nothing since to indicate it's ready to revive the science fiction horror series. When it comes to Dead Space, what dies doesn't stay dead for long.

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