26 January 2013

Dead Space 3 comes with Mass Effect armour, new kind of fear

 
 The game comes with the N7 armour which is known from Mass Effect main character Commander Shepard.





You can get the armour when you've got the Mass Effect 3 save file on your PS3, Xbox 360 or PC. Then you load up Dead Space 3 on the same system using the same Origin profile - thats it.

Associate producer Yara Khoury from Visceral Games discussed the new kind of fear in the game. “I think at this point we’ve mastered the art of doing closet scares, you know, necromorphs jumping out of vents, etc – and I think that’s why it will be interesting to go to Tau Volantis – to see how we’ve been able to use the blizzard with its sensory tricks.”

“You can’t really see what’s ahead of you, there’s the snow that can, you know, hide some things. There’s also all the noise – the blizzard is actually really loud, and we’ve really played with these things to trick the player and create new kinds of horror.”

“The ice planet that worried players at first because it’s an external environment, actually turns out to be one of our allies in terms of creating new ways to scare our players.”

“I think when you introduce so much changes you need to let people kind of adjust to everything that you’re showing. And at E3 we introduced so many new things: you know, new enemies, Tau Volantis’ exterior for the first time, cooperative play – it was a lot for players to not be worried about, you know?”

“But I think with Gamescom we really brought it home, showcasing everything that makes Dead Space 3 a Dead Space game – horror, claustrophobic tight corridors, etc. I think it just takes a little bit of time for people to understand and accept change when they’re so very much invested in to a product.”