Dead Space creator and longtime Call of Duty lead Glen Schofield has shared a lengthy post-mortem of The Callisto Protocol, the distinctly Dead Space-esque survival horror shooter he led after founding developer Striking Distance, which didn’t meet sales expectations and saw middling reviews in 2022. (Currently: 69 critic score and 6.9 user score on Metacritic. Nice?)
Schofield, who’s since left Striking Distance , says the game was unfairly rushed out by the project’s overseers, still deserves a sequel, cost four times more than Dead Space to develop, and was initially discussed as the starting point of a series rather than a project that would recoup its full investment in one release.
Speaking with YouTuber Dan Allen Gaming , Schofield, who’s lamented the economics of modern game development in multiple interviews, says
Glen Schofield says The Callisto Protocol cost 4x more than Dead Space, needed 3 more months of work, and wasn’t meant to be one-and-done:
