The two developers made it clear they're very focused on remaking the original Dead Space. And while they're endeavoring to lay out the story told in the original, that doesn't mean they aren't looking at what came after, both in terms of gameplay and story, to flesh out concepts in the first game.
For us, the foundation is the Dead Space 1 story. So, by default, that's what is canon. But then there are some improvements that we want to make to that story, Campos-Oriola said. And not necessarily improvements because those things were not really working in the original, more improvements because of what came after, and we're like, Aw man, that's interesting if we could reference that, or if we could make a link to that, he continued, noting he and the team were looking at everything from what immediately happened in Dead Space 2 to ancillary media like animated films and more.