Dead Space preview PS3

We've gone hands-on this month with the massive forthcoming space horror-survival game, Dead Space. It's always exciting to see a brand new IP, and one that looks as promising as Dead Space is really something to look forward to. We've had a good look at Dead Space and we think that it'll more than tick all the boxes for sci-fi horror. And that's not all - we've also talked exclusively to the game's producer Glen Schofield, who answers all our questions about Dead Space, and fills us in with all the insider knowledge.

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Dead Space preview PS3

Say what you will about EA and their yearly incarnations of sporting franchises, but it seems that in recent times, the company's begun something of a transformation. For starters, it's finally started developing entirely new IPs, and it's this that we're most excited about. Granted, so far, there have probably been more misses (The Simpsons Game), than hits (Rock Band), but this new wave of IP, with the substantial financial backing of EA, is enough to get us to sit up. Leading the original charge, Dead Space is the one we're probably most excited about.

Set four to five hundred years in the future, Dead Space takes place in - you guessed it - the vast reaches of outer space. Putting you in the boots of Isaac Clarke, a young systems engineer, the game begins as Isaac sets out on a routine maintenance mission, to repair a deep space mining ship that 's lost contact with the Earth. However, when you board the ship, you quickly realise that there's more to the mission than was first thought, as you find the entire crew of the Ishimura murdered by some mysterious alien life form - their corpses left littering the vast, dark corridors of the gigantic vessel.