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Electronic Arts has announced that Dead Space, the action-horror game developed by EA Redwood Shores, will be in stores in Europe for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC, on Oct. 31, 2008.
Set in the far future, Earth’s appetite for
natural resources has become a major motivator for deep space exploration.
Immense, privately-owned and operated mining ships called “planetcrackers”
orbit planets and use sophisticated equipment to carve out entire city-sized
chunks of rock, reducing them to component elements and raw ore. When
communications go dead onboard the USG Ishimura, a famous planetcracker,
systems engineer Isaac Clarke is sent in to fix the problem. Once onboard
the vessel, Isaac discovers that the crew has unearthed an ancient and
malevolent alien presence far beneath the planet’s surface and brought
it onboard. Weaponless, alone and terrified, this lone engineer is burdened
with much more than simple survival – he must seal the alien horror
back into the dark rock.
“Survival horror is about experiencing a
terrifying, and deeply personal fiction,” said Executive Producer
Glen Schofield. “Dead Space is being developed as a single-player
thriller that delivers the chilling, claustrophobic feeling of being isolated
in a dark environment, while being stalked by some truly horrific enemies.
Halloween is the perfect time for EA to deliver the fear and anxiety that
will keep survival horror fans up playing all night.”
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