Last year, Dead Space brought together a lot of elements from classic horror titles and offered a high-definition perspective of a humble space engineer being forced to battle huge numbers of alien mutants that had taken over a space ship.

As soon as Electronic Arts' CEO John Riccitiello announced that a version of Dead Space would arrive on the Wii, a lot of people began to scratch their heads and wonder just how the team at EA Redwood Shores would pull this off and make it look even remotely as sharp as the version on the Xbox 360 and consoles.

Now the team has revealed a few details about the future title to Kotaku, and has also launched a series of screenshots and concept art. They depict the environments and enemies that will be found in Dead Space Extraction and showcase a pretty decent image of how the game will look like on the Nintendo platform. Here is a roundup of the statements given by a representative of the team:

-Dead Space Extraction will take "about as long as it took players to play through Dead Space," according to someone unnamed on EA's production team. If that's true, they're building a rail shooter (yeah, it's a rail shooter) to last a dozen hours or so. It'll be interesting to see how they do that without getting boring or repetitive.
-New areas of Aegis VII (the mining colony where the infection breaks out) and the ship Ishimura will be revealed. 
-The co-op mode will allow a second player to jump in mid-session, rather than require both players to start the mission together from the beginning. 
-Vague promises of new weapons, badder enemies, different bosses to battle, etc.

Dead Space Extraction will act as a prequel, and, together with the already launched comic book novels and the animated film, will paint a very vivid picture of what happened before Isaac Clarke and his ship arrived at the beginning of the game. Here are the screenshots so that you can make an idea about this title.