Dead Space: Extraction Announced

Submitted by Shane Whitehouse on February 18, 2009 – 11:55 am6 Comments

Electronic Arts CEO John Ricitiello had recently announced that the Dead Space franchise would be coming to the Wii. Most heard that announcement and wondered how, or what would Electronic Arts do to port the Dead Space experience to the Wii. Today, we got that announcement from Isaac Clarke himself, with a new trailer for Dead Space: Extraction.

Dead Space: Extraction is not a port of the orignal game, but a prequel, taking place on the USG Ishimura before Isaac Clarke and his companions come aboard to save the day. The action in the trailer is fast and violent, and the game in the short bits where you can see it looks suprisingly good. The biggest question I have is that if this is a prequel, and it takes place on the USG Ishimura right before the events in Dead Space, does this mean you will be involved with the events that take place in Dead Space: Downfall.

If you have not followed the Dead Space universe, Electronic Arts has spanned this franchise into comics and even an animated feature film. The film, Dead Space: Downfall, takes place on the USG Ishimura, and sets up all the events that we then play through in the 360 and PS3 versions of Dead Space. Now we have a game that is suppose to take place during that time, so one has to wonder if you will play as any of those people, or someone else isolated in another part of the ship. The question has been asked.

Also, the Executive Producer of Dead Space, Glenn Schofield, will not be the producer on this title, due to his recent promotion to GM of Redwood Shores division of Electronic Arts. Instead, that title will be passed to Steve Papoutsis. Steve was a Senior Producer on the first Dead Space title, and will now helm the Dead Space team for future endeavors in the Dead Space universe.

Tags: dead space, dead space: downfall, dead space: extraction, electronic arts, glenn schofield, isaac clarke, steve papoutsis, usg ishimura

StephenJMunn

Kudos to EA for producing a keen trailer and hiding the jaggy bits from viewers by using quick takes. I'm very impressed by the look, I wonder if they're using an Unreal engine or something else. It will be interesting to see if this is kind of a rail shooter, like Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles or something else. I want to try Dead Space on my PS3, I should see if there's a demo on PSN. I was looking for one the other day and got interrupted when I saw the RE5 demo.
StephenJMunn

Kudos to EA for producing a keen trailer and hiding the jaggy bits from viewers by using quick takes. I'm very impressed by the look, I wonder if they're using an Unreal engine or something else. It will be interesting to see if this is kind of a rail shooter, like Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles or something else. I want to try Dead Space on my PS3, I should see if there's a demo on PSN. I was looking for one the other day and got interrupted when I saw the RE5 demo.
Jordan_Snyder

Yeah, it definitely looks like they're going in a whole other direction with Extraction. From what we saw in the trailer, it appears to be an on-rails shooter similar to, like you said, RE:UC. I was hoping for a third person game with Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition controls, but maybe they know what they're doing. Let's just hope for the best.
Jordan_Snyder

Yeah, it definitely looks like they're going in a whole other direction with Extraction. From what we saw in the trailer, it appears to be an on-rails shooter similar to, like you said, RE:UC. I was hoping for a third person game with Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition controls, but maybe they know what they're doing. Let's just hope for the best.
StephenJMunn

Kudos to EA for producing a keen trailer and hiding the jaggy bits from viewers by using quick takes. I'm very impressed by the look, I wonder if they're using an Unreal engine or something else. It will be interesting to see if this is kind of a rail shooter, like Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles or something else. I want to try Dead Space on my PS3, I should see if there's a demo on PSN. I was looking for one the other day and got interrupted when I saw the RE5 demo.
Jordan_Snyder

Yeah, it definitely looks like they're going in a whole other direction with Extraction. From what we saw in the trailer, it appears to be an on-rails shooter similar to, like you said, RE:UC. I was hoping for a third person game with Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition controls, but maybe they know what they're doing. Let's just hope for the best.