With that kind of knowledge going forward, they could easily flip the script as they please with more knowing winks to the fanbase, harnessing the universe to its fullest.ĪLSO READ: House Of The Dead Remake Makes 40 Minutes (Almost) Worth It

The amount of research Motive has put into the franchise’s lore is clear, given there are nods to Dead Space: Extraction, two of the graphic novels, and the tie-in movie Downfall. While simply remaking the latter two games is entirely viable for Motive, that would also mean spending at least half a decade, if not longer, retreading the footsteps Visceral Games already took years prior.īut what if they build on this alternate ending where Isaac verges on seeming like an antagonist? Then, even if they revisit the characters and locations of Dead Space 2 or 3, they could drastically remix them, or craft their own storyline. In both games, the protagonist ends up possessed by the evil they sought to destroy, ending on an ominous note for a darker timeline the player won’t see beyond this point.Īs much as fans love Dead Space 2, it’s no exaggeration to call Dead Space 3 a contentious sequel among a fandom. The closest game to how Dead Space Remake achieves this is Silent Hill 3, which similarly requires you to play through a second time while following specific criteria to receive the alternate outcome. While far less common these days, it used to be commonplace, especially for horror games, to have a “bad ending” where the heroes don’t win and everything is depressing. It’d be extremely unlikely for them to have a falling-out between games if he’s already fully given in to the Marker sickness.Īs a result, there are three logical outcomes that this new, alternate ending could be angling for, from most likely to least likely: Theory 1: It's just a very elaborate, Silent Hill 3-style, 'Bad Ending' bonus Though it’s possible that the new ending can still allow for the events of Dead Space 2, the entire crux of the sequel’s narrative is Isaac coming to terms with Nicole’s death and finding a truce with his hallucination of her.

This being the main ending, along with several narrative adjustments to the campaign, allows for the events of Dead Space 2 and Dead Space 3 to proceed as usual.

By contrast, in the original ending of the 2008 game, and the main one for the Remake, Isaac wordlessly turns off Nicole’s looping suicide note, only to be assaulted be a more demonic hallucination of her.

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