Work quickly began on Dead Space 2, which arrived in 2011, but before the sequel arrived Visceral released Dante's Inferno.
This 2008 title was an intense blend of horror and action, with players trapped on a vast spaceship and having to literally dismember creatures dubbed Necromorphs to survive.ĮA saw Dead Space as the start of a new multimedia franchise, and it launched with tie-in comics, novels, and a prequel anime movie there was also talk of a live-action adaptation. Developer Visceral Games' first made a name for themselves in the 2000s working on licensed games James Bond 007: Everything Or Nothing and 2006's The Godfather, before breaking out with the original Dead Space. A follow-up was heavily teased in the game's cliffhanger ending, but here's why Dante's Inferno 2 never left development hell.
