Will there be a Callisto Protocol 2? Creators "want it to be a franchise"
We ask the developers if there could be a sequel to The Callisto Protocol.
Will there be a sequel to The Callisto Protocol? If you've been playing though the newly-launched horror game, which can be completed in roughly 10 hours if you know what you're doing, that question may well be on your mind.
The Callisto Protocol may feel like a great companion piece to the Dead Space remake, especially since the Callisto team is led by a former Dead Space developer, but this game is actually set in a whole new universe with no ties to previous games.
When we were at the Gamescom conference back in August, RadioTimes.com took the opportunity to ask one of the Callisto Protocol developers what the future could hold. Read on to find out what we learned!
Will there be a Callisto Protocol sequel? We asked the developers
Although a sequel to The Callisto Protocol has not yet been announced, there are certainly franchise hopes among the people that made it.
Mark James, the Chief Technology Officer of the Callisto-creating Striking Distance Studios, didn't shy away from expressing these hopes when we asked whether there could be sequels to The Callisto Protocol.
James told us at Gamescom: "With every new IP, every developer wants to think of a franchise. You never start and say, 'Oh we'll just do one of these. That'd be enough.' Yeah, everybody wants it to be a franchise."
However, James did note, "We're not arrogant enough to say, 'This is a franchise already,'" which seems like a sensible approach. Announcing a slate of sequels before you've even released the first one can sometimes backfire, after all.
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James does think that The Callisto Protocol is fairly well future-proofed, though. He explained: "What we've done is actually... we've built a universe that this [space-zombie] virus can continue to exist in.
"We built this larger corporation, the idea that this virus... it has always existed, maybe, or it could [continue to] exist in the future."
James said in closing, "So we've kept that like a nice open-ended bookend, so we can really think about the way we could expand this as a number of games."
If The Callisto Protocol 2 does get announced, we'll be sure to let you know!
Read more on The Callisto Protocol:
- The Callisto Protocol review - our final verdict
- The Callisto Protocol difficulty - why all the brutal deaths?
- The Callisto Protocol cast - full list of actors
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Rob Leane is the Gaming Editor at Radio Times, overseeing our coverage of the biggest games on PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, PC, mobile and VR. Rob works across our website, social media accounts and video channels, as well as producing our weekly gaming newsletter. He has previously worked at Den of Geek, Stealth Optional and Dennis Publishing.
