EA executive producer Glen Schofield says that Cliff Bleszinski told him Dead Space “looks great” on the Unreal Engine. One problem, the game uses EA’s own graphical engine. It’s one highlight in a very revealing video interview that Planet Xbox 360 had with Schofield at EA’s Redwood Shores location about Dead Space.

The entire video (.mpg) is on Planet Xbox 360′s site. Camera work’s a little shaky, but all you need is the audio. Schofield, with little prompting, talks very candidly about the game’s design, how it compares with other familiar titles, and how it all came to be.

Schofield himself visited with horror directors Wes Craven and Eli Roth, and writer Warren Ellis, to inform EA’s perspective on horror and how it will translate into the gameplay. Craven had a “really deep philosophy” about horror, getting downright creepy because it involves a family aspect. Roth “was little more about torture porn than the horror”, Schofield says with a laugh.