@Mit:

Supposedly, he's an ordinary miner who is just dropping by at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Vetterli

"lift it out of context pls. Kthx."

-Owen Good, Kotaku.com

Clarke

@JustJake: Actually, I doubt this will have much in common with BioShock at all. It appears to lack subtlety entirely, and story-- well, it doesn't seem to be this game's strong suit. Gory, frightening gameplay, though? Looks like this game should deliver that. And how. This trailer looks pretty cool. Definitely piqued my interest a bit.

Don't let me down, EA.

wild homes and gardens

Looks pretty cool to me.

smuckersisgood

*the monster all can't pull them selfs*

deathtastic

@Mit: The video said it was the game's executive producer.

TOWER_JUNKIE

This game is really growing on me. At first I wasn't too keen on it, because everything was told with a lot of show, so it was hard to figure out whether or not there was actually any substance as to what they put out there. Now it's been plenty of months (or has it already been a year?) since I first heard about it, and now I can't wait for it to be released!
I'm always worried about games being marketed as "the creepiest game ever" or "best gaming experience ever" - especially when these words come from the developers themselves. I mean, just look at what happened to Alone in the Dark, right?
I think it looks and sounds as if they're doing the right thing by marketing the game through one idea being wanting to scare the crap out of the gamer. Plus, the developer videos have been rather convincing - especially when they taked about the sound design. But, I don't like the idea of them talking too much about the "Strategic Dismemberment", because as mentioned above by Heliophage this will run dry in matter of hours of gaming, unless of course they've got some tricks up their sleeves. Battlefield: Bad Company was marketed by using the destructive enviroments as being the interesting part of this game, because it could serve some interesting battles, where the gamer blows a wall to pieces and then runs through it and finds the bad guy. This is a fun element, yes, but for how long? I played the demo and after a couple of minutes I just started blowing up every single house I came across, so the strategics in blowing up walls was put in the drawer and instead I just played the game "Commando-style". I'm seeing the same thing happening to Dead Space. Once you've destroyed enough Necromorph you might just end up blowing them to bits as soon as they near you. They could save this from happening by giving you a limited ammo supply though...

I just hope there's something extra to it :)

Vetterli

@juliopalio: Ooh, yeah, and the ammunition comes in syringes that contain tranquilisers to keep the brain calm. Or else it spazzes out in panicky giggles and everything gets thrown about.

Squealing gun yay!

But it will never happen :(

Fishballs

Telekinesis gun, you say?

Donato

*After blowing off all of the arms and legs of the monsters on his spaceship the space marine starts hearing clawing noises around him... He checks his ammo and realizes he's empty, no bother he says to himself all of the monsters can pull them selfs forward without arms or legs. Once the emergency lights turn on that seemed to have deactived during his encounter they reveille hundreds of monster dragging themselfs across the ship towards him with their mouths. without ammo he is forced to punch hundreds of monsters repeatedly in the face until they die, because after having all of their limbs removed they can still function.

deathtastic

@Fishballs: Heh. yeah, and the brain-gun shrieks "I HATH TELEKINESIS!!!" every five minutes.

juliopalio

Bioshock in space? amirite?

Either way WIN

JustJake

@Heliophage: Agreed, sound like your just gonna have to remove every limb and apendage of every enemy just before you can finsh them off. Rinse and repeat. Seems like its an artificial way of making the enemy a bit more difficult. Yes, you should be able to remove limbs strategically, but you should also be able to load a whole bunch of lead into the centre of their nervous system to stop them dead in their living-dead tracks.

juliopalio

This looks promising.

But "telekinesis gun"?

Telekinesis is moving things with your mind, so does that mean you have a telekinetic brain powering the gun?

That sounds kinda cool, actually.

Fishballs

this could look really frustrating but scary at the same time. if the weak spot is randomly generated, it could lead to lots of frustration as we would face a continually shambling or growing horde. however, this could also lead to a intense retreat or other desperate manuevers. im going to watch to see how this game turns out.

maraxusofk

Hoping the controls are good, it sounds great at what they trying to do. But, all of that can go down the drain if they screw up the controls of make it take too long to kill something. Also, having low ammo is never good in any shooter, that's a bad idea imho.

But, it does look good from what is displayed.

Chaospluto

Condemned 2 was supposed to be scary but I didn't find it to be. However this trailer alone scared the s*** out of me

GodzillaVsJapan

@Krondonian: You just described Doom 3, and the AI has got to be better than Doom 3. Because of the similarities, during development EA had to have looked at Doom 3 and the response to the game and made sure Dead Space didn't suck. At least not in the same ways.

I'm really looking forward to this title. For those who haven't seen a lot on it, there's tons of media out there.
On the topic of dismemberment and other stuffs, you can watch the May 17th episode of GTTV here: [www.gametrailers.com]
If you can stomach Geoff Keighley's douchebag method of interviewing people, there's a lot of information in there about the story, the main character, the weapon(s), the environments etc.

Bluecell

looks fun. at least worth a rent. though, the dismembering mechanic sounds like it'll be awesome the first few times and then get tedious as hell if you really do have to blow every single enemy in the game you encounter apart.

skyoon

Kotaku gives Dead Space 10/10!!! :)

TheRemedy

That looks pretty cool

zfleeman

Really looking forward to this one. Looks creepy, thrilling, and fun. Let's hope it delivers

Cool_Dr.Money

The premise of shooting someone in the legs and arms instead of in the head and body isn't particularly revolutionary. Moving the weak points of an enemy changes the dynamic for probably the first hour that it takes you to get used to it. In the end, it's the same mechanic that stretches across any genre where defeating an enemy is necessary, in that you aim for the weak spot(s). The only difference here is that those weak spots aren't typical spots.

What would have been more interesting would be to allow the freedom to do either. Calm, technical people would enjoy the percision of taking head shot after head shot when swarms of disgusting creatures crawl toward you, while those a bit more sadistic of us would use the stasis gun and repeatedly blow chunks out of the creatures presumed sex organs.

Freedom to do what we want is what developers need to aim for. Not just moving the targets. In my opinion, at least.

Heliophage

Looks like it could be the next great survival-horror game. Or the next one I buy, anyway.

InsidiousTuna

Game looks awesome and PS3 being the lead platform is a big ol' plus.

WhiteFeather

I don't understand the narrator choice for this video. Nothing about him or his tone of reading his lines seems to fit.

Looks interesting though. I'd be more interested if the protagonist didn't look so unoriginal (BioShock) and boring (faceless grunt.)

Mit

I havent seen much about this game up until this point, but its looking really nice imo

Beasterling

@slomo788: Same here.

The graphics look nice and moody, monsters should be a blast with the whole ripping apart and everything, and the weapon set looks quite interesting.

Things I'm worried about are the enemy design- they all look quite similar so far, the environment- there's only so much metal spacecraft I can take, and the AI- because there's no point in having cool ways of killing stuff if they're all braindead zombies rushing towards you.

Krondonian

(*Note to EA, that's not a testimonial. Don't lift it out of context pls. Kthx.)

"Strategic dismemberment?" Counterproductive headshots? And bodyshots? I'm ready to call Hello Kitty Online the No. 1 and No. 2 game of its genre*

-Owen Good ;)

[kotaku.com]

Pezdispenser

Looks pretty badass to me, though I may have a tough time with this one as I'm pretty greedy with my ammo.

kingofrain

It actually looks like it's shaping up to be a pretty good looking game. The mask is a bit wtf looking, but the atmosphere looks just great.

LastRule

I just realized something.

In space, no-one can hear you scream.

Isn't that freaky?

Shoemaster

I can't hear about this game and not think "Doom 3."

slomo788

@JustJake: You mean... System Shock? The precursor to BioShock that was set in space, perhaps?

(unless that was your point, in which case, well played sir.)

ShaggE

@Bluecell: Ah, you're very right.

I have the Xbox version of Doom 3, and while everything looks nice and bumpy it just got old quickly.

Still, I abandoned it after only a few hours. May go back and try it again, just because killing monsters with big guns is fun.

Krondonian

Sounds like poop in a can.

Handbanana37

there just winning everyone over with the trailers and such. To me it dosent look like a game, more like a horror film. I am interested to try this game out when it comes out but I dont have big hopes for it.

nypad5

@Bluecell: "If you can stomach Geoff Keighley's douchebag method of interviewing people"

I noticed this the other day when he was interviewing Ted Price and other Insomniac staff. I was like, why doesn't this smarmy bastard let them finish answering questions before he asks another one?! And why does he have that assholeish smirk on his damn face? But you just answered me. He's a douche. Thanks!

GoldenGotGame

"So what do you expect in a destroyed and malfunctioning space station, Budweiser, a park and some football?"

More or less. Ever played System Shock 2?

Yuki

@JustJake: Ah, okay. I was a little worried there. :p

ShaggE

basically avoid all the mistakes that doom 3 made

mrt181

looks more and more promising. it also has similarities with doom3, a good sign in my opinion because i enjoyed doom3 (and ROE, more of the same).

Some people complain that the environment consists only of dark corridors and metal. So what do you expect in a destroyed and malfunctioning space station, Budweiser, a park and some football?

I only hope that the enemies are not all totally zombie like dumb, that the levels and the environments physics are convincing (a "real" space station not a labyrinth that looks like a space station, artificial gravity through a rotating ring [centrifugal force], varying gravity, magnetic boots that allow to walk on any metallic wall in gravity free space etc.) and that the story is good with enough npc's and conversation to keep things interesting.

mrt181

OOooooooh-kay. That looks like it has a lot of possibility. Uh, will there be multiplayer too?

Salen

@ShaggE: Some one caught it at least.

Looks like an interesting game either way though.

JustJake

I have a feeling this is going to be one of those games I won't be able to play late at night when my fiance is sitting on the couch with me.

I can't wait!

MantisDragon

@Bluecell: @GoldenGotGame: YES! I'm glad other people see Geoff Keighley as a jerk. Dude annoys the hell out of me on gametraliers tv. He also does interview work for GameStop TV, and he's terrible there as well. I know he has posted on here and is friends with Crecente, but the guy is just an asshole.

Oh yeah, and Deadspace looks pretty cool. Hope the controls are good. Controls have ruined many a game for me.

SgtElias

I can see this game pissing me off even more than Doom 3 did. I can also see myself developing epilepsy because of all the strobe lights.

Even if I wanted this game, I have a personal embargo going against all EA products.

mphz

@JokesJokes: He's the developer. He's popped up in tons of interviews.

I feel the horror genre is really lacking at the moment so I'm looking forward to this along with RE5 and Silent Hill: Homecoming. Though I agree with the generic design I'm assuming their keeping their more "colorful" monsters secret at the moment. I mean the ganados in RE4 were way more uncreative but in the end they had a good number of memorable enemies.

T6Spades

I still hate the enemy design. It's SO uninspired. Really, I think I'll hold off on this one.

ThisCharmingMan

Who's the narrator? Sounds familiar.

JokesJokes

Holy hell. I want this now.

Amazon_Chris

yes i played both, great games.

what i wanted to say is, the whole setting does not really allow so much variety in its level design. i hope a good story can compensate this. but if the design a "real" space station instead of a dungeon, then we will see crew compartments, c3 areas, tech areas, "surface" areas etc. lets just hope that the devs do not let this game bomb and that the controls are not clumsy.

mrt181

@T6Spades: Sorry I mean "Executive Producer". His name pops up in the first couple seconds in the video.

T6Spades

The narrator sounds like Norm McDonald.

Anyways...looks interesting. Like Bioshock had a child, but is already paying alimony.

Mesren_Makai

You can defy GRAVITY by using telekinetic GUN and launch objects at your enemies, beating them within HALF an inch of their LIFE? That sounds TWO awesome!

Kyattsuai

Dismemberment is never strategic.

It's just plain fun.

Snake726

Seriously guys, I don't want to be a negative nancy, but it's ea, it's going to suck, we all know it.

Murdoc

the graphics are amazing. Reminds me a bit of Dark Sector with the over the shoulder view, but a LOT prettier graphically. And it has Doom 3's scares. The dark atmosphere and freakish monsters will make this interesting. Let's hope it turns out well.

target_render

"Telekinesis gun"?

Sounds like valve is gunna sue someone

Weasel3689

With every new video and piece of information, this game becomes slightly more intriguing to me. At first I wasn't interested at all in it, but I am really starting to become attracted to the game's setting and art direction. It also has some interesting gameplay concepts, but we'll just have to wait and see what come of those.

TheGuero

@Kyattsuai:
lol

XbhaskarX

The art style of this game looks quite lousy.

XbhaskarX

@Kyattsuai: I C WHAT U DID THAR!

You know what would be cooler than strategic dismemberment? Being allowed to use the telekinesis gun to pick up enemies and scrape them to nothingness against a wall. That would be sick.
It would also be cool if games actually formerly recognized torture as being not only worse than death, but had some sort of system that rewarded you for torturing an enemy within an inch of their life.

Zerbrechen

@DugDawg: A+ for you!! I was seriously trying to remember what the creatures reminded me of and that was it. So thank you for that lil lift of embargo haha.

On a second note:
My very first impression of this game was just, wtf...RE in space, could you honestly not come up with some other way of making money for gas?!?.

My current impression: I kan haz mohr Ded Spayse Vidzz?!?!

Ignorance's Enemy

Strategic, huh? So you'll need a Dismemberment Plan? Set the Wayback Machine for pre-2003!

slyty

Looks interesting -- though a bit too dark and scary for me. I couldn't help but notice that the enemy critters are eerily similar to those featured in John Carpenter's "The Thing."

DugDawg

That can't be PS3, the video shows the A button icon twice.

Xanto5824

@Zerbrechen: Google "Torture Game 2". It allows you to do exactly that.

ShaggE

o_O someone just asked for adult diapers... lol... looks standard stuff to me... project origin looked way way scarier.. oh well

SamStride

Does anyone else think he sounds like Bruce Campbell?

Maltose

Wow, how many games do I see here...Doom 3, System Shock/Bioshock, Resident Evil 4, Alone In The Dark...there are no new ideas left.

Gunhaver

@AZTriGuy: You speak the truth and are a gentleman and a scholar.

Fishballs

Telekinesis gun is all fine and dandy, but it can't measure up to a gun that shoots shurikens and lightning.

AZTriGuy

This sounds scary. I will not play this game. =|

Channing

This can also been seen as a negative for the game. Why do we have to take each monster apart limb from tentacle from limb?

Does the weaponry in this game suck that much?

Are the guns fail?

Vanguarde

@Fishballs: Telekinesis means moving things at a distance (Literally. Tele = distance, kinesis = movement) The most commonly thought of way of moving things at a distance would be with ones mind. Psychokinesis would actually require that the movement be done via the mind.

GnatB

@slyty: I think I just had an Emergency and I...

zoesch

The game doesn't look bad, but their marketing guys should be shot repeatedly.

Strategic dismemberment is some Grade-A marketing buzzword bullshit. I wish they'd let the game stand on its merits rather than trying to come up with retarded-sounding and misapplied phrases to spout.

Kainy

Dismemberment? SOLD!

Ehetyz

Finally, my dream of someone making Event Horizon into a game has come true.

Jazhuis

This game looks awesome. Looks like what would happen if I mixed System Shock 2, Resident Evil 4, and Doom 3 together. I get awesome.

Doshi

@ShaggE: Yo, thanks for turning me on to that "game"- it's sick... But really, really fun.

Now if only there was a videogame like this...

Zerbrechen

@Shoemaster: Well, someone/thing will eventually hear it, but you would probably be dead a million light years before it was heard. Now THAT is freaky.

gencid

This game looks more impressive each time I see it. I can't wait to play. I hope a demo comes out before October.

Ryodestined

i wuv it. ill never play it, cause i cant stomach scary games, but i wuv it so.

xoforoct