March 27, 2010 -
Holy crap, Isaac Clarke's new threads are awesome. How awesome? He can fly. Yes, everyone's favorite space engineer is getting a new suit in Dead Space 2, EA and Visceral Games' next entrant in the third-person/survival horror franchise, and today, the PAX East audience got a sneak peak.
At first, it was just some art of the new Metal Gear-looking suit (photos below – yes, we know that they're blurry), but then the panel brought out a very short, very exciting clip from Dead Space 2.
In it, Isaac's trucking through a train car and comes to the end of it. The next car is a ways down the indoor track, so just jumping isn't an opinion. Instead, Isaac leaps out of the car he's in and thrusters kick on from his boots and hands. It's a rocking flight for a second, but then he gets control, goes stiff, and does his best Iron Man impression as he zooms to the next train car.
Isaac swoops in, see's a necromorph, and blows it up by shooting its deformed hand. It explodes, some stuff falls from the ceiling, and the clip ends. It looked really, really cool and got quite the reaction from the fans in attendance.
The panel was also pressed about bringing Dead Space Extraction to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. They wouldn't answer directly, but they did say to "keep your ears peeled."
Look for more on Dead Space 2 (and maybe an Extraction port) soon , but until then, enjoy these images…