The corpse of Dead Space is being reinimated for Battlefield 6, with the latest trailer for Season 5 seemingly teasing a crossover.
Battlefield 6’s new trailer shows off a new Las Vegas map that looks like a lot of fun, as choppers and machine guns tear up casinos and skyscrapers along The Strip. But then the music fades out, ominous sounds creep in, and it cuts to a bloom-filled scene where two Dead Space engineers stare up at The Marker, the survival horror series’ alien artifact that drills into your brain.
Earlier this year, series writer Chuck Beaver claimed sales were too low for EA to greenlight a Dead Space 4. Series co-creator and developer of The Callisto Protocol, Glen Schofield, also retired from the industry this year after his spiritual successor failed to light up the industry.
Battlefield 6 players on Reddit already spotted potential Dead Space skins, which were rumored to launch in the Halloween update this October, so that’s probably what you can expect. Developers at Dice have previously gone on the record to say Battlefield 6 won’t feature goofy, immersion breaking skins. That’s done now, if these rumors are true.
EA recently added a Dead Space skin to Skate and charged $40 for it so there's precedent for skins in the universe. Players weren’t happy with the skin itself or the cost, so it’ll be interesting to see if EA aims for more realistic pricing for the next crossover. Battlefield 6 previously did a crossover event with Top Gun, but that makes sense in a game featuring fighter jets.
Battlefield 6’s fifth Season features three new maps, including Vegas Strip and Area 51, six new weapons and two new vehicles. You can jump into Vegas on October 13.
As for Dead Space, talking on the FRVR Podcast, Beaver said that to recoup the costs of the franchise's high production values, any new game would need to sell over 10 million copies — a tall order for even a breakout horror game.
“Any of the Resident Evils are selling around seven million [copies], that’s a pretty good number," Beaver said. "But, you know, companies now are looking for the next Fortnite. They need something that is a perennial moneymaker… something like a single-player package game with no live-service offering that’s like it’s just a dinosaur fossil of a business model."
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