Topic: Dead Space Extraction

[GoldenPhoenix]

HD grit style for what have essentially been fairly "empty" rooms.

So like Killer7, except DSE actually has good visuals?

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Nowhere did I imply Dead Spinoff looks good, and killer7 doesn't have HD grit style, so you're wrong on both accounts.

lurn 2 raed

EDIT:  Learn to troll.

[BeautifulShy]

A couple more details.

- branching paths
- slower-paced sections with minor movement
- puzzle elements that utilize Wiimote controls
- Wiimote speak plays audio logs
- twist wiimote to activate alternate firing mode
- shake Wiimote to activate glow stick
- adjust ‘head bobbing’ camera feature
- shoot during zero gravity
- health/ammo shown on reticle

[BlackNMild2k1]

IGN has impressions and new videos

- It's been nearly two months since Electronic Arts let slip that its Dead Space franchise would be continuing on the Wii in an original title designed for the strengths of the platform. Early last week Electronic Arts invited me down to its studio to check out a work-in-progress version of Dead Space Extraction in action. And I've walked away from this short demonstration incredibly impressed with what the team has done on the Nintendo console. The game looks stunning.

In the demo there were opportunities to go different routes – at specific points in the action a glowing line on the ground would branch off into two directions. To choose a path, you simply aim at the glowing line and click on it. According to the developers, there will be plenty of forks in the pathing to change direction and experience different parts of the level. There are also several puzzle elements that will stop your progress – in the demo, the player needed to complete a circuit board connection by dragging the on-screen reticule along an electronic path in a quick motion, without touching the red surface.

During some parts of the game you'll wander into areas that aren't well lit, and that's where the game's newest addition comes into play. The "Glow Worm" is an accessory that's essentially a tube of phosphorescent chemical that will illuminate the area in a shade of green. The effect is temporary, so you'll have to keep shaking the tube by – how else – shaking the Wii remote to keep everything lit up. Keep in mind that while you're shaking the remote, you can't shoot your gun, so there's a bit of strategy involved: is it worth putting yourself at risk by lighting up the area?

[ShyGuy]

The video was decent looking. I still think Conduit looks better, but we haven't seen much of DS:E They mention branching paths alot, if the game has a ton of them ala Killer7 it may be more immersive than something like HOTD:OK

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

The Conduit looks better and isn't a "guided" shooting game.  There goes IGN again on and on about visuals.  Taking freedom away from the adventure game should easily mean there's resources in the system to throw at visuals, but what about the gameplay?  This is where those "strengths" come in, RIGHT?

"You want THAT... RIGHT!?" [get on the table]
--Thunder Ryu

[BlackNMild2k1]

New details

- game starts right before the mysterious Red Marker is released
- a few chapters are spent escaping the colony for the planet-cracker Ishimura
- from here, the game runs parallel with the animated feature
- Extractions’ final scenes run together with a critical moment in the first Dead Space
- same team from the original working on this game

I know some people didn't like the movie, but it was actually better than alot of the horror films that I've seen in the past few years(that would be alot). Its also good to now that it overlaps into the first game too.

[EasyCure]

New details

- game starts right before the mysterious Red Marker is released
- a few chapters are spent escaping the colony for the planet-cracker Ishimura
- from here, the game runs parallel with the animated feature
- Extractions’ final scenes run together with a critical moment in the first Dead Space
- same team from the original working on this game

I know some people didn't like the movie, but it was actually better than alot of the horror films that I've seen in the past few years(that would be alot). Its also good to now that it overlaps into the first game too.

it'd be good for wii only owners if we had the first game to experience... or else these overlapse won't have the same impact.

[Stogi]

That's a good point; however, I imagine that if this game performs well, they we'll have more of an incentive to bring the original to the Wii, therefore giving us Wii owners probably the best way to enjoy the story.

It could happen.

[BlackNMild2k1]

NPC! Deadspace


but only if they bring it out way before they hope to release a Deadspace 2

[EasyCure]

NPC! Deadspace


but only if they bring it out way before the release of Wii 2

fixed

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

DEAD FISH EXTRACT

>> Dead Space: Extraction * 480p / 60fps
February 2009 teaser trailer

[bustin98]

Coop demo. Entire first level:

http://wii.ign.com/dor/objects/14320036/dead-space/videos/deadspace_gmp_level1_052709.html

[BlackNMild2k1]

I like the ass shot hey had on the girl putting on her space suit. But that isn't the entire first level. Its the 1st level of the E3 playable demo that IGN had.
If you read the interview that Stogi had linked to somewhere, they say that the space walking part is not in the demo but is in the final game, the demo skips it and starts again right after it.

You would also think that a flamethrower would light the room up alot better that its doing in this game. Could make it creepier to light a creature on fire and it kinda reveal all the other monsters hiding in the room from the light of the fire.

[Pale]

Man, what is with the vulgarity? I don't remember that level of vulgarity in the first game.

[BlackNMild2k1]

My only two gripes with this game at this point,
1)  is there is no dynamic lighting from things like the flame thrower and the electric beam, yet those same two things(fire and electric spark) emit light when they are found already present in the level.

2) Is the cursor is so large that you can't even see what you are aiming at on the screen unless the enemy is right up in your face.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

"2) Is the cursor is so large that you can't even see what you are aiming at on the screen unless the enemy is right up in your face."

This is one of the problems in REUC.

[BlackNMild2k1]

even the cursor in UC isn't quite as large. on my 21" monitor the cursor was like the size of a $.50 piece and close to a silver dollar. thats huge.

[BeautifulShy]

I don't know if this was posted recently but September 29, 2009 is the release date for North Americans and October 2, 2009 is for Europeans.

http://gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=84181

[BlackNMild2k1]

Control scheme revealed

http://www.livewii.fr/news/122803/Dead-Space-les-controles-confirmes.html?c=0

[BlackNMild2k1]

A new trailer is up

Terror Hides

[DAaaMan64]

The game looks good! I'll buy it

[broodwars]

Hmm, I had a lot of hope that this game would be good after playing through Dead Space a few months ago, but watching that E3 Coop Demo I have to say this game needs a lot of work.  For one thing, it just doesn't look like a whole lot of fun.  A lot of shooting enemies you can barely see who are 50 feet away, and who usually die before they get within 10 feet of you.  Also, is it just me or are the necromorphs not behaving properly?  In Dead Space, they'd usually pop out of vents or suddenly jump off the ground after pretending to be dead to rush at you.  These necromorphs just seem to shamble zombie-like from off screen and slowly walk towards you, giving you plenty of time to empty your ammo at them.  The game just doesn't look scary, which is a real failing for a first person horror game, and it may just be me but your teammates just seem a little too gung-ho for my tastes.  I don't know...I still have hope that this game will be good, but that footage isn't encouraging.

[ShyGuy]

Broodwars makes an excellent point. So far the game doesn't look very fun. The pacing feels off for a rail shooter. I honestly don't know why this wasn't an FPS. Right now it's a rental for me.

[broodwars]

Broodwars makes an excellent point. So far the game doesn't look very fun. The pacing feels off for a rail shooter. I honestly don't know why this wasn't an FPS. Right now it's a rental for me.

I don't mind the slow pace of progress through the levels, as an important element of a good horror experience (and one that was present in the original Dead Space) is that there are periods of just atmosphere.  Getting attacked by enemies should be a surprise, a disruption of the status quo.  Thing is, there's no energy to any of the action sequences in that walkthrough, as neither the enemies nor apparently the characters are treating attacks with anything approaching drama or fear.  From the looks of the footage, the developers couldn't make up their mind whether they were doing a game in the more contemplative style (monster closets nonwithstanding) of the first Dead Space or in the "shooting gallergy" style of something like House of the Dead: Overkill so they tried to do both.  The end result seems to be a game that doesn't manage either style well and just comes off flat.