Dead Space (360/PS3)

[ThaGenecyst]

Electronic Arts announced this morning that their Redwood Shores Studio is currently developing an original intellectual property that will introduce a new experience to the sci-fi horror genre. In the brilliant, bold and often-bloody Dead Space gamers will step into a third-person sci-fi survival horror experience that promises to deliver the ultimate in psychological thrills and gruesome action.

Set in the cold blackness of deep space, the atmosphere is soaked with a feeling of tension, dread and sheer terror. In Dead Space, players step into the role of engineer Isaac Clarke – an ordinary man on a seemingly routine mission to fix the communications systems aboard a deep space mining ship. It is not long before Isaac awakes to a living nightmare when he learns that the ship’s crew has been ravaged by a vicious alien infestation. He must fight through the dead silence and darkness of deep space to stay alive.

Executive Producer Glen Schofield commented, “This team has worked on some tremendous properties but we have always wanted to work on something that was darker and creepier. We are all such huge fans of the horror and sci-fi genres; we wanted to create the most terrifying game we could, and keep the player on the edge of his seat the entire time.”

Dead Space is expected to ship in Fall 2008 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

http://www.strategyinformer.com/member/3/blog/4050

[ThaGenecyst]

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EA has fomally announced Dead Space, a brand new sci-fi survival horror that's being billed as a videogame imagining of Event Horizon and Alien. Check out the first 12 screens here.

Having seen the short teaser 'movie' over at the official website, we can confim (at least in this clip) it's looking as gory as the developer is promising - just check out the hurl level of the decomposing corpse.

The game's lead character is introduced as Isaac Clarke, a space-station repair guy on a mission to repair the communiations system of a deep space mining ship. When he gets there he finds out the crew have all been murderised by aliens with a penchant for dismemberment and Clarke has no choice but to fight his way out.

As connoisseurs of the horror genre, we're hoping this is going to stretch the boundaries of fantasy gore - something along the lines of Eli Roth directing Alien would suit us perfectly - and the developer's stock PR quote gives us some hope that's what we'll get:

"We are all such huge fans of the horror and sci-fi genres; we wanted to create the most terrifying game we could, and keep the player on the edge of his seat the entire time,” explains Executive Producer at EA Redwood Shores, Glen Schofield.

It's an interesting departure from EA's more typical, by numbers fare, and pits the company against the extablished stalwarts of the survival horror genre - both originating in Japan - Silent Hill and Resident Evil. We'll be following this game closely to see just how exploitative they can make it, as these first screens aren't totally selling that to us yet...

http://www.gamesradar.com/us/ps3/gam...92414531265010

[ThaGenecyst]

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[ThaGenecyst]

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[Candyman5]

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I remember this game in my game informer.

[Money99]

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Electronic Arts announced this morning that their Redwood Shores Studio is currently developing an original intellectual property that will introduce a new experience to the sci-fi horror genre. In the brilliant, bold and often-bloody Dead Space gamers will step into a third-person sci-fi survival horror experience that promises to deliver the ultimate in psychological thrills and gruesome action.

Set in the cold blackness of deep space, the atmosphere is soaked with a feeling of tension, dread and sheer terror. In Dead Space, players step into the role of engineer Isaac Clarke – an ordinary man on a seemingly routine mission to fix the communications systems aboard a deep space mining ship. It is not long before Isaac awakes to a living nightmare when he learns that the ship’s crew has been ravaged by a vicious alien infestation. He must fight through the dead silence and darkness of deep space to stay alive.

Executive Producer Glen Schofield commented, “This team has worked on some tremendous properties but we have always wanted to work on something that was darker and creepier. We are all such huge fans of the horror and sci-fi genres; we wanted to create the most terrifying game we could, and keep the player on the edge of his seat the entire time.”

Dead Space is expected to ship in Fall 2008 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

http://www.strategyinformer.com/member/3/blog/4050

This game sounds great. A total rip-off of Aliens but I don't care. I loved that movie and it's shocking this idea hasn't been explored enough for video games.

[Altimus]

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I remember this game in my game informer.

Yeah it was in this month's issue. Game looks pretty interesting so far.

[Flawless]

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First Trailer

[Flawless]

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EA's Dead Space Dismembers the Competition this Halloween

Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced that the new sci-fi survival horror game, Dead Space will be in stores in North America and Europe on October 31st for the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system and the Xbox 360 videogame and entertainment system. Dead Space will ensure that gamers have a spine-tingling Halloween.

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[DickDalewood]

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Cool trailer... I like the complete silence at the end... very space-like

[Flawless]

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[Flawless]

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Dead Space site is live

Developer diary

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[Flawless]

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New developer diary focusing on the story.

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[CMH]

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I love next-gen.

[Flawless]

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New trailer

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