Well, I for for never saw this coming. The teaser poster which was released yesterday was said to have some kind of hidden easter eggs just waiting to be uncovered but I certainly wasn’t a whole new entry to the series to be announced. Visceral Games certainly did play their cards close to their chests, eh? The Facebook crowd managed to come close with a few of their guesses – a number of of whom were even able to translate the Unitologist ‘Ignition’ text. Well done!
Dead Space 2: Ignition will be set hours before the events of Dead Space 2 and will grant you front row seats to the Necromorph outbreak. Lovely. Apparently, Ignition will be more of an interactive comic than a full blown game. That’s to my understanding anyway. You can read the full announcement that the Visceral Games team made on their Facebook page if you like. Hopefully you can make more sense of it than I can.
Judging by the included piccy, Official Xbox Magazine has the scoop so you’ll have to invest in their upcoming issue to get the full gist of what’s going on.
Either way, whatever it is, it’s going to be released ‘Fall 2010′ on the Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network Store. Pricing has yet to be made public.
[ Game Informer ]