14 DAY TRIAL // So Electronic Arts thought that if it launched space based horror title Dead Space on Halloween people might be a) too scared because of the costumes and the pumpkins or b) too full because of all the candy and the lavish dinners to play it, so it has decided to put the game out a week earlier, on October 21.
The idea was to launch the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 versions of the game first, while PC gamers could get it on October 31.
When this was reported I declared myself amazed by the fact that a publisher and a developer managed to get their act together and made a game that shipped early, rather than late. What was even more amazing was that they actually said that the game was pretty much done and could even be released today.
Now Electronic Arts is saying that even October 21 is not a good date. There's a new release date revision that says that the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 versions of Dead Space will arrive on October 14 while the PC version will be making an appearance on October 20. The company says that the new date offers players "a full 17 days before Halloween to step out into space for the fright of their lives." So the idea now is to get gamers so scared before Halloween that the costumes and the candy will have no effect on them at all. It's probably all a giant conspiracy by Electronic Arts to ruin Halloween.
Dead Space will put the player in the heavy magnetized boots of one Isaac Clarke, a miner who is sent to investigate the mining ship Ishimura, which apparently is stranded in space with all of its crew missing. In true survival horror style, the crew is not dead but merely something else other than human and the protagonist will have to put his resistance to the test as he tries to survive while finding out what happened in deep space.