First off, it’s drop-in/drop-out, so the story needed to be flexible enough to adapt to whether it was just series hero Isaac Clarke in the scene or if tough guy John Carver was with him. The co-op in Dead Space 3 was about as gnarly a knot as it could possibly have been to create. “Let me tell you,” he explains, “it was very difficult to create a game that allows for drop-in/drop-out, that’s why you don’t see it so much.

Mostly, though, he hopes you like it because the team at Visceral worked really, really hard on it. Part of that undoubtedly has to do with his belief that co-op is a great way for you to introduce a game to your friends, and given that EA claimed Dead Space 3 needed to sell “around five million copies for the franchise to be worth a continued investment, the more people talking about it, the better. With Dead Space 3 slowing morphing into a shell of its former self, Visceral had no choice but to make the best of what it had.Steve Papoutsis, executive producer of Dead Space 3 really hopes you like the game’s co-op. Visceral had little say in the matter and had to please Electronic Arts or run the risk of getting the game canceled. To make things worse, EA slashed Dead Space 3's budget. The developers had to scrap most of the game's original narrative while EA demanded features like co-op be implemented into the game. EA didn't believe Visceral's original concept was marketable enough, so it forced the developers to change its entire blueprint. The plot would be similar to the John Carpenter film The Thing as a team of space marines grow paranoid with their surroundings, eventually turning on each other as the plot unfolds. It would be slower-paced and incorporate more psychological horror elements into its gameplay. Visceral Games, Dead Space's developer, originally had Dead Space 3 returning to its horror roots.

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