I don’t often find myself agreeing with other people when they say a side character in a video game sounds like they’re having a more exciting adventure than you, but in Dead Space: Ignition, Sarah is shooting down hordes of zombie-like aliens while the plot contrives some reason for you to pop open a control panel and play hacking minigames. The problem with the plot isn’t heavily related to the gameplay substance save for the playable character’s role. Fortunately for Franco, his girlfriend Sarah is skilled enough with weapons to fight them off as Franco travels through the space colony, the two trying to escape while helping people they come across along the way. This massive facility both serves as a living space for an entire colony of people and as part of the planet mining business that has pushed mankind into exploring further into space, but while doing his daily work fixing technical systems, strange undead aliens known as Necromorphs begin to attack The Sprawl. Players play as an engineer named Franco who works on the space station near Saturn known as The Sprawl. That doesn’t mean some of the distaste was unwarranted though, and one of the issues is with the game’s story. Some of the hate it received was no doubt in part because of its departure from what made the first Dead Space interesting, Dead Space: Ignition is primarily a puzzle game that just so happens to have a horror story in between moments of that kind of play. This game was Dead Space: Ignition, and it went on to be utterly reviled by the gaming press.
A few months before the release of Dead Space 2, a pre-order bonus would hit digital marketplaces first, a small game taking place in the Dead Space universe and serving as a prequel to upcoming game’s events.
Dead Space 2 would end up being one of the most expensive video games to develop of all time, and it’s likely Electronic Arts wanted to ensure this game recouped some of that outrageous budget by keeping people excited for the upcoming title. After the first Dead Space game wowed players with its atmospheric horror enhanced by a sci-fi outer space setting, it was no surprise people were eager to play the follow-up, Dead Space 2.
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