[Rumour] Dead Space: Extraction Heading To PSN/XBLA?

[Hadrian]

http://kotaku.com/5467177/dead-space-extra...ing-to-xbla-psn

Visceral Games' Dead Space 2 may not be the next game you play in the sci-fi franchise. Recent surveys point to an Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network port of Wii misfire Dead Space Extraction and something brand new, Planet Cracker.

One survey's description of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 port of Dead Space Extraction indicates that any planned port of the game would feature the same on-rails "guided first-person experience" gameplay, pitched as an "interactive horror experience" in "full HD." A tentative price of $15 USD was mentioned in the survey forwarded to Kotaku.

Another title, known as Planet Cracker, was potentially more interesting. Described as a "resource strategy game where players will manage a CEC Mining operation," Planet Cracker focuses players on attempting to "maximize their daily profit" and "defending their hard-won ore from Space Pirates." Sounds like Ore Tycoon aboard the USG Ishimura.

Planet Cracker was billed in the survey as an extension to the story of Dead Space 2 and could yield "in-game rewards" for the retail version of the sequel, similar to the Fable II Pub Games that preceded Lionhead's role-playing game and netted players in-game gold.

Both Dead Space Extraction HD and Planet Cracker were listed a possible incentives for Dead Space 2 that could be unlocked to those who pre-purchased the game.

While the survey appears legitimate, EA's plans may change, so we're labeling this information as rumor until any official announcements are made. We've contacted Electronic Arts to get clarification but have not yet heard back.

Wii owners didn't want Dead Space: Extraction, well they didn't want to PAY for it and seeing EA's Visceral Studios spent a lot of time, money and effort in making one of the finest on rails games out there, its no surprise that they don't want it to remain a game that was only bought by a so few gamers.

I hope they do this, the story was excellent and for me it was every bit of a proper game that Dead Space was.

 

[Master Mo]

Why not make it a retail game? Maybe it will be episodic...

I think the game was pretty good and I think the franchise should be on every console with every game! When someone played the first DS he would love to play the sequel (or in this case: prequel) but who would buy a console just for one game...

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Seems good enough. I played the game and didn't like it, but I can see why people would. I say go ahead; the game suffered horrendous sales on the Wii and hopefully this may help it gain some credibility.

Only thing that sucks is not having that "light gun" feeling with a 360/PS3 controller. It worked well with the Wii one. Oh well.

 

[Rock Raiyu]

Seems good enough. I played the game and didn't like it, but I can see why people would. I say go ahead; the game suffered horrendous sales on the Wii and hopefully this may help it gain some credibility.

Only thing that sucks is not having that "light gun" feeling with a 360/PS3 controller. It worked well with the Wii one. Oh well.

Guild pretty much said what I was going to say.

I say bring it on.

 

[Maikel Steneker]

The game was awful in my opinion. Games like House of the Dead: Overkill and Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (I didn't play DarkSide Chronicles yet) were much better.

I don't think the controls would work with a regular controller. Maybe they can make it work with Natal or Sony's motion controller?