"You'll be playing with a friend," explained Calhoun," and one thing could scare you. And so, as players take heavy, hesitant boot steps through hungry darkness, they'll become a partial source of one another's fear. With multiple people, though, you clear a nice, wide (and potentially dead) space for a killer more methodical and insidious than any necromorph: doubt. These things are gonna stand out."Ī comparison could, perhaps, be made to console cult survival-horror hit Eternal Darkness, which occasionally tested the sanity of both main characters and players with sickening sights and sounds that weren't always just in their heads. "We're not gonna waste your time on rocks, though. Are you seeing a rock?'" said producer John Calhoun. "I imagine people are going to be like, 'OK, I'm seeing a rock. That knowledge, however, probably won't be of much use to you if your co-op partner's off in some cave in Siberia, and you're halfway across the world in your game room. They certainly don't pop up on Isaac's radar. His brain, then, is starting to crack like a big ol' nutty egg, and that has a direct effect on the way some co-op sections play out. Well, he's mostly over it now because of reasons, but this is Carver's first time gallivanting about on necromorph Marker-strewn turf. You'll remember that Isaac had some pretty serious dementia through the first couple Dead Space games. There's a method to what many initially (and very angrily) considered madness, and at least one portion of it was born in the name of adding scares - not dampening their effect with friendship and rainbow bunny heart sparkles. But, if nothing else, I came away from a recent Dead Space 3 co-op showcase convinced that Visceral's not just tossing Carver into the mix out of pure obligation. I'm still worried that aspects of its design could seep into single-player like so much freshly spilled, colder-than-an-ice-planet necromorph blood. I'm still not sold on Dead Space 3's co-op. Yes, one's the loneliest number, but two can be just as bad.
But that's also ignoring the new possibilities adding another person to the mix presents, Visceral producer John Calhoun claimed during a recent showcase. So obviously, there's reason to fear the worst for, well, fear in general. Plus, Visceral's flatly stated that co-op will help make Dead Space more accessible for the faint of heart. After all, it's much harder to be afraid of the dark when someone's whispering sweet, soothing nothings into your heavily armored ear. You've probably used your mouth to voice distaste for Isaac's new foul-mouthed best pal Carver, too. You may not have heard - unless, you know, you are any human being on this entire planet with functioning ears or eyes.
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