Dead Space Coming Sooner

Well, this is rare. EA's PC/360/PS3 sci-fi survival horror game Dead Space will be arriving in stores earlier than you thought. It's been moved up from a Halloween release to October 21st in North America and 24th in Europe.

Dead Space is a third-person perspective action game where players control Isaac Clarke, an engineer investigating a distress call from a massive mining ship. Apparently the miners done dug up the wrong freaky alien artifact, and the ship is crawling with a mysterious alien species known as "Necromorphs." These monstrous creatures are extremely resilient and will regenerate unless Clarke systematically dismembers them. Needless to say, not a kids' game.

To further the player's immersion, the game has no HUD. Your health bar is a strip of lights on the back of your armor, while your ammunition is displayed next to your gun in a floating hologram. Your inventory screen is also an in-game hologram, so you'll have to rummage through your bags while enemies bear down on you. Because the main character is an engineer rather than some special forces troopers, he's not exactly a killing machine but he'll be able to turn his tools into make-shift weapons.

EA has big hopes for this new IP and they've been expending a lot of effort on the project. Over the last few months they've been releasing a six-part comic series that chronicles the events leading up to the game. Animated versions of those comics are now available over the Internet; I've posted the introduction below and you can check out the other installments at Gametrailers. An animated prequel film entitled Dead Space: Downfall will go on sale soon before the game is released - the trailer for that is below, as well.

Update: I've had a couple people tell me that the October 21st release date for North America had been announced a month ago at E3 and that only the European release date was changed today. Consider the North American release date confirmed, then, rather than changed. To be fair, the trailer at E3 (posted at the bottom now, too) mentioned the release as "Halloween 2008" so the confusion is plausible.

Update #2: They just moved up the release date again. Now it's coming out on October 14th for the consoles and on the 20th for PC.

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