Interesting tidbit about the Dead Space devs

[futurefields]

the Dead Space 1 devs are now making Call of Duty games as Sledgehammer entertainment

the Dead Space 2/3 devs are now making Battlefield games, still under the Visceral brand

just thought that was interesting

 

[SharpHawk]

That actually is pretty interesting. I wonder how Future Warfare will turn out.

EDIT: Advanced Warfare. Way to be creative there guys.

 

[Topweasel]

the Dead Space 1 devs are now making Call of Duty games as Sledgehammer entertainment

the Dead Space 2/3 devs are now making Battlefield games, still under the Visceral brand

just thought that was interesting

They are making A, or 1 Battlefield game. Maybe they might be more, but this had to do more with Visceral having an interesting idea that could apply to the Battlefield franchise, than EA moving Visceral over as some sub division of DICE. The other big thing is unlike Infinity Ward and Respawn. There wasn't a mass Exodus with Visceral. The head two guys from Visceral left because they wanted more atonomy and started up Sledgehammer under Activision. There were probably a some other people that left Visceral for Sledgehammer, but as a whole the Visceral that made 2&3 was still Visceral (unlike the Infinity Ward that made Ghosts).

Which is kind of funny Visceral is still pretty autonomous. Some will see a BF game as EA pulling their strings. But I wouldn't say that is certain. Sledgehammer was forced to stop their original game development, co-develop a game with Infinity ward because Activision's controlling and paranoid nature caused half of their premiere non-Blizzard team to storm out. Now they have developed as their first solo game a run of the mill CoD with jet packs. Looks better than Ghosts, and I actually enjoyed the SP of Ghosts. But still now they are just the B team in a 3 team development cycle.

I kinda feel bad for those two. Probably in even worse shape to try to run off after this to do something like Respawn.

 

[TeknoBug]

? I thought Visceral did all Dead Space games.

And I'm not putting my hopes up on Visceral making a decent Battlefield game, EA usually does something to ruin it and besides Hardline is basically a modded Battlefield 4 instead of a different Battlefield game like Battlefield 4 was to 3.

I lost interest in Call of Duty a long time ago since MW2, and besides, futuristic themed games don't sell strongly.

 

[Topweasel]

? I thought Visceral did all Dead Space games.

And I'm not putting my hopes up on Visceral making a decent Battlefield game, EA usually does something to ruin it and besides Hardline is basically a modded Battlefield 4 instead of a different Battlefield game like Battlefield 4 was to 3.

I lost interest in Call of Duty a long time ago since MW2, and besides, futuristic themed games don't sell strongly.

I don't understand the part about BF:H being less than BF3-BF4. BF4 was a engine tweak and rerelease for the new consoles. BF:H is going to be the first real story driven BF game. Might not be good but I don't really see where this "it's a mod" or "it's an expansion" posts come from.

But the little history that my post expanded on was that immediately after the success of Dead Space. The two guys EA put in charge of Visceral when they started it, left because they wanted to see if they could get some more autonomy. They thought the Activision structure allowed for that and started Sledgehammer. Maybe a handful of people left with them, maybe key guys. But all I could really confirm was those two and there was never any report about an exodus from Visceral.