Great news for all of you Dead Space fans out there just dying to read words out of a book. Today marks the release of the hardbook comic conveniently titled Dead Space and it will be available nationwide in comic book stores. If you don’t live near a comic book store or despise the funky smell of them it will release near the end of the month at Amazon.com, Borders and Barnes and Noble book stores.
The comic serves as a prequel to the surprisingly solid story of the Dead Space game. It is a combination of all six Dead Space comics written by Antony Johnson and illustrated by Ben Templesmith. The book also includes an exclusive bonus art section and a background section dedicated to the major characters of Dead Space.
The Dead Space animated film also serves as a prequel to the game. I am curious to know if they tell the same exact story or maybe different versions of the same story?
EA Redwood Shores definitely had their work cut out for them. The survival horror genre has its heavy hitters already set and you had to wonder if Dead Space, being a new original IP, even had a chance. The game was announced in 2007 and had a pretty positive showing at E3. There were still questions about control issues and how well the story would progress. You can set those worries aside because Dead Space delivers and then some.
The story begins with your character Isaac Clarke, an engineer who is called upon to repair a damaged ship called the USG Ishimura, a “planet cracking” vessel used to mine valuable minerals from planets. Of course, it seems like an everyday repair mission, but things take a turn for the worse. Your vessel crashes into the Ishimura leaving your crew stranded with no way home and no explanation for the events that have taken place on the Ishimura. Soon you are thrust into life and death situations with the alien species known as Necromorphs that have taken over. That is just the beginning of your story as you try to figure out why this has all happened and just how to survive.
After much courtship EA has assessed the situation and decided to run away from this potential merger as if told that there was a flesh eating virus on the loose. No real word on why they are no longer eyeing Take Two but it is clear that the offers and extensions are done. EA will ride its own titles to glory and wait for another possible business venture to make their empire expand. Curious if Take Two will remain tough and by themselves or just look for better offers elsewhere? Not sure who else could match the dollars EA is offering, possibly Blizzard Activision?
EA has made it official, after all the extenstions on the tender offers, and the presentation, they are no longer interested in purchasing Tak
e Two and have terminated all talks.
According to John Riccitiello, Chief Executive Officer of EA,: “EA is tracking toward a record breaking year. We’re launching 15 new games including award-winners like SPORE, Dead Space and Mirror’s Edge, great new titles from the Sims, new family titles with Hasbro, and the highest quality slate of EA SPORTS titles on this generation of consoles. We’re also expanding beyond our core business with a series of direct-to-consumer launches including Warhammer Online.”
Dead Space: Downfall is an animated film based on the upcoming space horror game from EA of the same name. Looks like EA is helping market Dead Space by releasing a full length movie to help fill in some of the backstory to the game. Looks pretty damn good and gory.
Yeah your read the title right, this is actually what Miyamoto of Nintendo believes. During a recent exchange a reporter asked Miyamoto about Wii Music.
Wii Music doesn’t have high scores, goals or anything like that, isn’t it more like a toy than a videogame?
Miyamoto responded: Yes, that’s right. That’s why it’s more interesting than a videogame.
If interesting is the same as what this guy is doing you can count me out.
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Check out this video where the executive producer of Dead Space, Glen Schofield, talks about the strategies of taking out enemies in the game by dismembering them. I like the concept of being able to immobilize enemies and changing how they attack you. Ninja Gaiden 2 was pretty good with this aspect of gameplay as well, you could cut an enemies arm off and he would still try to attack you until it couldn’t anymore. This will definitely add to the horror aspect of Dead Space if you have dismembered monsters chasing you around a space station.
Dead Space will scare the pants off you when it’s released this Halloween. Decent space-based survival horror games have pretty much been confined to Doom, and Dead Space looks to jump right in to the mix. Can you survive as the lone human on an alien-infested ship?
EA sent out a bunch of new screenshots for their space survival-horror title, Dead Space. In the game, you’re the only surviving crew member on a space station over-run by zombie-like aliens intent on killing you. You’re communications have been cut off and you don’t have much chance of survival. Looks like a combination of Doom and Silent Hill. The game is set to ship in 2008 for the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3.
EA sent out a press release to announce a new franchise, Dead Space. Set to ship in late 2008 for the Xbox 360 and PS3, Dead Space is a third person sci-fi survival horror game that will scare the Be-Jesus out of you.
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.
Sounds like a winner to me. Expect more details in the coming months as EA lets us know.
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