Dead Space 3 demo coming to consoles in January

Everyone is waiting for the latest game in the Dead Space series—Dead Space 3. According to Polygon, gamers can get their hands on the demo for Dead Space 3 on 22 January on the Xbox Live Marketplace and the PlayStation Network. As of now, there is no sign of a PC version of the demo.

Electronic Arts has also announced that gamers on the Xbox 360 can sign up on the game’s website and register their Origin IDs that will allow them to download the demo on 15 January, instead of the original release date for the demo. Quantities of the early demo codes are limited, according to EA.

Isaac Clarke is getting ready to kick more necromorph ass

In preparation for the release of the game on 15 February, EA had recently released a trailer that showed the story of the series so far. The trailer, titled, The Story So Far, appropriately shows a recap of the events that lead up to the next game in the series. The trailer shows the main protagonist of the game—Isaac Clarke—through some of the events of the previous games, such as killing Necromorphs on the Ishimura or finding gruesome sites where ritualistic murder has taken place. The trailer also retains the overall mood of the series through eerie music and having no spoken dialogue whatsoever.

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Back in August, EA had released some screenshots for Dead Space 3. While most of the game’s campaign is set to take place on the frozen planet of Tau Volantis, the screenshots show that the player will also be going out into space in some levels.

The first game in the series had some zero-gravity sections, but they were more or less a gimmick at the time. The second game gave the main character, Isaac, thrusters, so that he could navigate through the zero-gravity sections better. Considering how much the second game focussed on action over horror, and how much the same will be true for Dead Space 3, it seems like a smart idea to let the character be more maneuverable.

In the first game in the series, Isaac Clarke is an engineer who has been hired to help repair the USG Ishimura, a planet cracker class starship hovering over Aegis VII that sent out a distress signal. Unfortunately, the shuttle Clarke is travelling on is damaged, his team is attacked by Necromorphs that have infested the ship and he gets separated from the rest of the team, necessitating the repair of several areas of the ship to reunite and find a way off. Isaac has a personal stake in fixing the Ishimura; his girlfriend Nicole Brennan is somewhere on the ship and Isaac has to rescue her.

Dead Space 2 takes place nearly three years after the events of Dead Space on an enormous space station called the Sprawl. Isaac Clarke, the protagonist from the first game, finds himself on the Sprawl, but his traumatic experience aboard the Ishimura has messed him up for good. His memory is failing him and he’s constantly haunted by the images of the girlfriend he failed to save. This overpowering guilt, mixed with trauma gives way to a severe case of dementia where Isaac has trouble differentiating fiction from reality. As if seeing random flashes of his dead chick wasn’t bad enough, another Necromorph infestation breaks out on the Sprawl leaving Isaac to fight for survival and figure out why his luck sucks this bad. Dead Space 2 was also the first game in the series to have multiplayer.