You Still Have Time To Choose Your Co-op Partner for Dead Space 3

EA’s goal for Dead Space 3  is to make it attractive to a larger audience of gamers, and the way they’re planning to accomplish this is to shift the focus of the gameplay further towards the realm of action rather than traditional survival-horror. Whether the game can maintain its sense of horror like the first two games is hard to tell, but it looks like we’ll know for sure on February 5th, 2013.

Those who pre-order the game will be given access to two bundles: “First Contact” and “Witness the Truth”. Both bundles offer a bonus weapon and suit:

“First Contact” Bundle

• First Contact Suit: This unique EVA (Extra-Vehicular Activity) suit was built by the SCAF (Sovereign Colonies Armed Forces) for encounters with “foreign entities.” It sports a flamboyant golden finish to provide protection from long-term space exposure and thick armor for… unspecified reasons. The suit was given the nickname “First Contact” by the scientists who made it.

 

• Negotiator Weapon: While technically classified by the SCAF as a “scientific instrument,” the gold-plated “Negotiator” is loaded with some surprisingly aggressive hardware. The overclocked, top-mounted Tesla Beam is capable of bursting a man-sized organism into several pieces with a single shot. The bottom-mounted Linegun appears to have been built with the sole purpose of cleanly dismembering organic tissue from a distance.

”Witness the Truth” Bundle

•  Witness Suit: These insulated suits were worn by a SCAF deep dig team assigned to exhume the darkest secrets of Tau Volantis. Whatever they found locked deep in the ice changed them forever. When they emerged weeks later, they were covered head to toe in strange graffiti and claimed to be “Witnesses to the Truth.”

 

• Evangelizer Weapon: A modification of the standard AL-2 used by the Sovereign Colonies Legionaries, this version sports a souped-up AL-2g assault rifle on the top with an Emerson 2100 “Big Boy” tactical shotgun on the bottom. The surviving “Witnesses” of the SCAF deep dig team dubbed it the Evangelizer and decorated them top to bottom with strange symbols.

Dead Space 3  is coming to PC, Xbox 360, and PS3.   Check out the video to see what all the madness is about:

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