According to executive producer Steve Papoutsis, the original Dead Space was under “immense pressure” to deliver on all fronts. Had the team not achieved what they had, Papoutsis believed that the project could have been canned at any time. Thankfully for gamers, Dead Space was a hit success and now we’re being treated to a sequel.
“With [the first] Dead Space, any time we showed it [to EA] there was immense pressure,” he said. “At any minute we might have got cancelled, they might have said, ‘This isn’t making any progress, we don’t like it.'”
Papoutsis enjoys that his team is delivering a product that gamers can enjoy forever and realizes that a lot of pain can come from creating something you love if it doesn’t materialize into what it needs to be.
“Games are forever, pain is temporary,” he said. “So when you’re working hard on something, in the short term it may be tough – but at the end you’re going to have this thing forever that people are going to get to enjoy.”
Dead Space 2 drops in 2011, so be sure to watch out for it.
Phew. Thank God it did. One of my favourite sci-fi/survival horror games of all time.
whats the point in cancelling a game? they would just have to make a new game and by then they would have lost loads of money because they wouldnt have released a game in years when they could have just speant more time on the original game.
Glad they finished it