Electronic Arts announced today that its forthcoming Survival Horror title, Dead Space, would be released in North America and Europe on October 31, 2008 – aka, Halloween.
Dead Space pits players in the shoes of a futuristic space engineer named Issac Clarke, who is a member of the organisation the Concordance Extraction Corporation (CEC) Having been assigned the task of locating a missing vessel in the midst of outer space, Clarke soon finds himself fighting for survival against a race of alien creatures known as Necromorphs in the darkened corridors of the lost craft.
The game’s Executive Producer, Glen Schofield, commented, "Survival horror is about experiencing a terrifying, and deeply personal fiction.”
“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."
Dead Space will be EA’s first attempt at a Survival Horror title, a genre that has been widely popularised by Capcom’s Resident Evil series.
The game will be available for the PlayStation 3, PC and Xbox 360.