Dead Space developer Visceral Games is working on a new IP, billed as a "thrilling online action shooter game", which will be the "cornerstone for a new EA Games Studio".
That's according to - you guessed it - another job posting. Visceral needs a lead multiplayer designer to work on maps for the unannounced title and mentor design staff at the new studio.
Revealingly, the desired candidate will ideally have "architectural knowledge and experience making realistic world levels". Sounds like a contemporary military setting to us - but then Visceral's awfully good at making fantastically improbable environments feel natural. What do you think?
None of that's guaranteed to make the cut, mind, and nor is the release of the game itself, with EA apparently underwhelmed by franchise sales. The publisher may have green-lit a Dead Space FPS. Shock.
Visceral's prowess as a multiplayer designer is, we'd argue, limited. Dead Space 2's Necro/human mash-ups were gruelling for all the wrong reasons.
Peruse our feature on what EA wants from the next Xbox for possible further pointers.
4 comments so far...
Clanger67 on 23 Jan '12 said:
It would be a shame if they don't do 3.I have the first two so would probably get no 3.I thought the first two had done and sold quite well shows what i know,lol.
comabob on 23 Jan '12 said:
DS1 and 2 DID sell well - EA desperately want a slice of CODs online MP pie
OXM ETboy on 23 Jan '12 said:
They've sold well enough, but I reckon they haven't repaid what EA's sunk into 'em R&D-wise. Not by a long shot. Dead Space should be EA's Assassin's Creed - massive universe, proven mechanics, great scores.
Bezza89 on 23 Jan '12 said:
Am I right in thinking they are just helping out the new EA studio, just getting the new guys going? Just the way it read.