Napalm Riot

Among the video games Electronic Arts showed off in a press preview last week at the Supper Club in San Francisco was DeadSpace. And it was very bloody.

This is the survival-horror game that debuts on Halloween and is EA’s bid to create a cross-platform franchise. EA will be releasing a comic book series, animated TV show and video game based on the same DeadSpace universe.

The blood and gore surprised me. We’re talking a spray of blood shooting out of the alien creatures as you shoot them aboard a gigantic space mining ship. You walk by a bloody and disembowled creature lying on an operating table while another creature is operating on it. It was like a scene out of BioShock, the best-rated game of last year from Take-Two Interactive. And you can die an inglorious death as a creature rips your head off and tears off your limbs. One of the most prominent people in the game industry (who shall remain nameless) was laughing his head off as we watched this scene together.

That’s tame for this mature-rated genre of games and even for movies like “Saw.” But for Electronic Arts, one of the biggest video game companies in the world that built its name on family-friendly fare, it’s quite a departure.


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