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Looking one part System Shock and another part Event Horizon, Electronic Arts’ Dead Space is another of 2008’s most eagerly anticipated experiments with freaking us right out. In development by a “renegade” team of devs at EA Redwood Shores, the game represents one of the few truly original offerings from a company that has rightfully earned a dubious reputation for recycling IP.

However, if our interest was piqued by the sci-fi survival horror romp through outer space, it completely pales to EA’s own enthusiasm for the project, which has seen Dead Space cast in both comics as well as an upcoming animated prequel in the run up to the game’s release this Halloween. But EA throwing money at a game to keep it in the news is hardly surprising, so we spoke with executive producer Glen Schofield about the project, asking him point blank why we should care about a game that, as he tells it, is about “a normal guy in a horrible situation.”
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