Dead Space Ships to Retail
EA UNLEASHES A BLOODBATH AS DEAD SPACE SHIPS TO RETAIL
Get Your Scare Before Halloween with Award-Winning Sci-Fi Survival Horror Game
Redwood City, CA – October 14, 2008 – Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS)
announced today that Dead Space™, the award-winning new survival horror game,
has shipped to retail in North America for the Xbox 360® video game and
entertainment system and PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system. The PC
version will ship on October 20. Dead Space will be in stores in Europe on
October 24 for the Xbox 360, PLAYSTATION 3 system and the PC.
First introduced last year, Dead Space is an original horror intellectual
property that quickly won over critics worldwide with its stunning visuals,
spine-tingling gameplay and horrifying creatures. The game has won over 11
awards and has earned a 5 out of 5 from GamePro magazine and 9.25 out of 10 from
Game Informer magazine. GamePro even said that Dead Space is “…one of the best
survival horror experiences ever created,” and Game Informer quotes, “No game
has ever been this frightening.”
“Dead Space has been an exciting new direction for the team seeing how it is the
first survival horror game to come out of EA,” says Glen Schofield, Executive
Producer on Dead Space. “We created a very deep piece of fiction for the game
and really pushed the boundaries on the violence, gore and psychological terror
needed to produce a high quality horror entertainment product. We think that
people will love the universe that we created and have a lot of fun with
strategic dismemberment. You can even dig deeper into the Dead Space universe
with our 6-book comic series, the animated feature Dead Space Downfall, and the
interactive web series No Known Survivors.”
Set five hundred years in the future, Dead Space follows the story of Isaac
Clarke, a normal systems engineer, who is sent with a small repair team to
restore communications aboard an immense mining ship, the USG Ishimura. 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. It’s a living nightmare onboard the Ishimura, which has turned into a
floating bloodbath, as the crew has been unspeakably mutilated and infected by
an ancient alien scourge. Clarke’s repair mission becomes one of survival as he
fights not just to save himself, but to return the artifact to the planet at any
cost.
Developed at EA Redwood Shores, Dead Space is rated M for Mature with
descriptors of Blood and Gore, Intense Violence and Strong Language by the ESRB
and 18+ for PEGI. Dead Space will be available for MSRP $59.99 on the Xbox 360
and PLAYSTATION 3 system and MSRP $49.99 for the PC. The Dead Space Ultra
Limited Edition will be available on the Xbox 360 for MSRP $149.95 through the
EA Store™. For more information about the game, go to the website at
http://www.deadspacegame.com or
http://info.ea.com.