Slashdot | Dead Space 2 Announced

Electronic Arts announced on Monday that their popular survival-horror game Dead Space is officially getting a sequel. According to the press release, it’s being developed for the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. There’s speculation that Dead Space 2 may include some form of multiplayer, after an EA job opening was spotted on LinkedIn that mentioned multiplayer level design for the franchise.

Very cool.

I’m not sure that I care much about the multiplayer…  Could be fun, I suppose…  But I’m more interested in a solid singleplayer experience.

I thoroughly enjoyed the original Dead Space and can’t wait to see what they do with a sequel.

Looks like there’s a new Dead Space game out – Dead Space: Extraction.

Too bad it’s only available for the Wii.  We’ve got a Wii, but it’s mostly for Christopher.  I’m not a big console gamer.  I’d much rather play on my PC.  Still…  This looks pretty good.  I might have to pick up a copy anyway.

I loved the original Dead Space.

So, yesterday was Thanksgiving.  Terri got the day off on account of her slaving over a hot stove every other day of the year, so I did the cooking.  Everything turned out surprisingly well.  Not that I really thought I’d ruin everything…  I can cook fairly well usually…  But a big ol’ Thanksgiving dinner is a little imposing.

I, of course, ate far too much.  Piles of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, rolls, pumpkin pie…  It’s amazing that I didn’t rupture something yesterday.

I also spent a good chunk of the day yesterday playing WoW.  My Warlock is now 76, and my Death Knight is 62.  I’m more-or-less done with Dragonblight…  There are still a few group quests for me to do there, but I’ve had enough.  Some of those quests were pretty frustrating and I’m glad to be out of the zone.  I’m currently grinding in Howling Fjord – technically a step backwards, as the zone is lower level, but it’s a lot of fun.

I haven’t played Left 4 Dead again since that first session.  It was certainly fun, but I’ve been tied up in WoW almost nonstop.  That’s the problem with the holiday season in general – excess.  Too much stuff going on, too much to do, not enough time for any of it.  I’ve still got to play through Red Alert 3, and I wanted to try Fallout 3, and I never did finish Dead Space…

The best part though, is that it is only Friday night.  I’ve had two full days off from work, and I’ve got two more to go.  Very nice.

Today is the Wrath of the Lich King launch…  And, appropriately enough, it’s cold here.  Frost all over the place…  Had to wait for the car to defrost before I could drive anywhere this morning…  Having to wait for a car to defrost before I can go to my first call of the day…

I am certainly looking forward to WotLK.  I can’t wait to start playing a Death Knight for real, and I never really explored much of Northrend in the beta, and there’ll be new quests, and new cooking recipes, and more fishing to do, and new dungeons…  But, most importantly, I’ll be able to play with Terri – unlike in the beta.

But, to be completely honest, I’m not so excited about launch day.  If WotLK launch is anything like the original WoW launch, or BC after that, it’ll be nearly impossible to accomplish anything for a few days.  The servers will be buggy, laggy, and periodically rebooted for a day or two…  And everyone is going to be playing in the same areas again.  The lower sections of Northrend and the Death Knight starter zones are going to be packed full of people.  It’ll be a challenge to get anything done at all.

I honestly don’t expect to be able to accomplish much of anything until Saturday or Sunday.

That’s ok though…  I’ve got plenty of other things to keep me occupied.

Friday night I’ll be working fairly late, so I won’t have much time for games.  I don’t expect to get home until somewhere around 9:00 or so.

I’ve also still got Dead Space to play.  I haven’t made much progress with that for a good week or so.  That last tentacle attack was very demoralizing.  I never liked those tentacles…  And I was thrilled when I thought they were gone for good…  And now they’re back.

I’ve also been on a Peggle kick recently.  It’s a pretty simple game, but a lot of fun.

Then there’s Fallout 3, which I acquired a little while ago but haven’t gotten around to playing yet.  Everyone says it’s pretty good…  But they also stress that it isn’t really a Fallout game, which worries me.

And Red Alert 3 was recently released, and I’ve managed to acquire a copy of it as well.  I did install that, and gave it a try, and I’m fairly impressed so far.  I really kind of regretted spending any money on Command & Conquer 3…  It just was not a satisfying game.  Didn’t enjoy it much at all.  I expected similar disappointment from Red Alert 3, but so far it’s a very solid game.

I managed to grab the flux capacitor out of the Valor.  Actually, I guess it’s a “singularity core”, but it certainly looks like a flux capacitor.  Zach got killed by one of the giant, hulking necromorphs.  I was hoping those super-fast necromorphs would stay aboard the Valor, but it looks like some of them made it aboard the Ishimura as well.  Had to go down to the crew section of the ship to repair a shuttle.  Turns out it needs more than a flux capacitor…  Needs navigation cards, which means I need to wander around the crew deck looking for them, as soon as I find myself a key to open some of these doors.

The crew deck is pretty neat.  It is reminding me a lot of the common areas aboard the Nostromo in Alien, or maybe some of the dining hall scenes in Aliens.  Tables and chairs everywhere, some vending machines, a bar or cafeteria or something like that.  Lots of posters on the walls advertising what look to be movies…but maybe I’m misunderstanding.  Found a Unitologist shrine, surrounded by dead Unitologists.  Also found a text log that kind of explains the whole Unitology thing.  And there’s someone singing in the background…  I can’t quite make out what they’re singing, but it’s damn creepy.

I got another message from Dr. Kyne – he wants to meet me, talk to me, tell me some secret plan or something.  He doesn’t want us just to run away.  He seems to think that the planet itself is angry because they removed the marker.

I also ran into Dr. Mercer again.  He’s still ranting and raving about the end of humanity.  So, now I’m wondering if his buddy the regenerating super-necro is going to show up as well.

Kendra seems to be taking Zach’s death pretty well.  In fact, she didn’t seem to care at all.  I’m not sure what to make of that…  It’s obvious the developers wanted the player to choose sides between the two of them.  There was tension right from the start, and the two of them were often arguing over how best to proceed.  And both of them have acted very suspiciously at one time or another.  Obviously I’m supposed to have doubts about who is trustworthy and whatnot.  And now I’m left with Kendra.  And I do have doubts.  I’m wondering what, exactly, her agenda is.

I also ran into one of those giant tentacles again…  Thing grabbed me and dragged me to my death.  Was not expecting it, had the line gun ready, and couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn with it.  I really figured I was done dealing with those giant tentacles.  I thought that when I killed the leviathan I wouldn’t be seeing any more of them.  I guess I was wrong…  And now I’m wondering how many more I’m going to have to deal with, because I do not like them.

I’m also kind of wondering how all these other people are managing to stay alive – where they’v been hiding, what they’ve been doing.  Me, I’m constantly getting jumped by necros, constantly fighting to stay alive.  But Kendra doesn’t seem to have that problem…  Nor Dr. Kyne…  Nor Dr. Mercer…  And it looks like Dr. Mercer found himself some more survivors to experiment on.