The NSFAmerica Dead Space 'Lullaby' trailer

by Griffin McElroy { Jul 27th 2008 at 7:00PM }

Send the kids to bed, dear readers. It's grown folks time. The Dead Space "Lullaby" trailer we've placed cautiously after the jump is full of ominous environments, severed limbs, and creepy children's songs -- the horror game trailer trifecta. In fact, Ars Technica reports that shortly after viewing the trailer at E3, they received an email from Electronic Arts telling them that the ESRB refused to approve the trailer for American audiences. We're not experts on the subject, but it might have something to do with all the disappendaged torsos. It was cleared for European regions, however, and of course, for the great nation of Internetania. Check it after the break, if you think you can handle it (you probably can).

Tags: ban, dead-space, e3-2008, ea, electronic-arts, esrb, lullaby, trailer

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

colin @ Jul 27th 2008 7:05PM

would have been scarier with "jesus loves me" sung by little sisters

Stephen @ Jul 27th 2008 11:28PM

so true, although its scarier when you hear a splicer singing it and all you see is the shadow from around the corner...

Tiptup300 @ Jul 28th 2008 12:14AM

I hate the ESRB, This is why we don't have awesome games where limbs are severed, people's heads explode, chunks of man flesh fly and hit people in the face. The esrb is out to destroy the mature side of the games industry.

We can have all this in a movie where people will be more affect psychologically, but not in a game?

nobody528 @ Jul 28th 2008 12:27AM

Tiptup300, maybe you missed the fact that they only banned the trailer, not the actual game? The ESRB doesn't allow "overly"-grotesque movie trailers to appear in the American ads either, and I watch all my trailers on gaming websites rather than TV anyway.

Wiinterfang @ Jul 28th 2008 1:30AM

Well thank God it isn't cuz my vowels can't handle that kind of thing.

j.howlett @ Jul 28th 2008 2:11AM

the esrb shouldn't have a say if the trailer is shown, just rate the content. like red band trailers. or have an unrated trailer. i wonder if this has to do with the darkness trailer or whatever game awhile back. and esrb doesn't do movies.

MillRecover @ Jul 28th 2008 2:50AM

"This is why we don't have awesome games where limbs are severed, people's heads explode, chunks of man flesh fly and hit people in the face."

You guys are so bloodthirsty!
Limb-less... I mean, limbo, anyone?
:D

Tiptup300 @ Jul 28th 2008 4:04AM

I've had a discussion just recently about the ESRB and the thing that really irritates me is that the ESRB won't let people make "disturbing" games. Games that are so horrific that you will actually feel uncomfortable in your home. Horror movies are allowed, why can't horror games have the ability?

It also seems as though any disturbing game is said to be toned down by the esrb.

mezzanine @ Jul 27th 2008 7:07PM

Don't struggle like that, I will only love you more.

x2fr @ Jul 28th 2008 11:08AM

but it's much to late get away, realize my fright...

Krystalle Voecks @ Jul 28th 2008 11:30PM

The spiderman is having you for dinner tonight!

Gbogdan @ Jul 27th 2008 7:11PM

Every time I see something about this game I get more and more excited about it.

aristokrat @ Jul 27th 2008 8:33PM

Every time I see this I get pissed at how much of a pussy I am when it comes to horror games. It looks fun, but it also looks terrifying.

aacman007 @ Jul 27th 2008 7:16PM

Epoch win

eNrique @ Jul 27th 2008 7:22PM

think i'll need some valium tonight...

Wiinterfang @ Jul 27th 2008 7:24PM

Does anybody had an extra pair of undewear?

Ben @ Jul 27th 2008 8:55PM

I know I need another pair after watching that. Holy @#$!

chalkley3 @ Jul 27th 2008 7:29PM

I will bet 20 bucks this game never makes it to australia. Then again, fallout 3 lets you shoot people's ears of with VATS, so I hold hope.

Haggard @ Jul 27th 2008 8:31PM

Haha, is that to stop them from hearing your footsteps or something? I'd have thought that shooting them in the first place might make them notice you.

Thatoneguy64 @ Jul 27th 2008 7:31PM

Posted July 15, 2008 @ 3:46 am

Wiinterfang @ Jul 27th 2008 7:39PM

?????

aristokrat @ Jul 27th 2008 8:34PM

He hated Too Human so much that he set his clock back so that none of the classes would be playable?

Dr. @ Jul 27th 2008 9:40PM

aristokrat, you just made my goddamn year.

Thatoneguy64 @ Jul 27th 2008 11:12PM

At GameTrailers, that's the date the vid was posted.

Shignami @ Jul 27th 2008 7:39PM

I haven't really paid much attention to this, but it looks rather system shock-ish.

although given the subject matter comparison is inevitable.

I really like alot of the things I saw in this trailer, the whole "CUT OFF THEIR LIMBS" thing is a nice touch, especially considering how much survival horror games seem to like messages written in blood, also it seems its taking a page from RE4 in the whole "really cool death scenes you want to watch" regard, Lets hope this game is a challenge enough that I might actually see some.

ExMcCloud @ Jul 27th 2008 7:45PM

Wow....This may be the survival horror game of the year....No literally I think its the only one....And EA is making it? Suprised...That, I...Am

Tez (PSN: Tezasaurus) @ Jul 27th 2008 8:14PM

There's Siren... but whether or not that game is actually good seems to be debatable.

ExMcCloud @ Jul 27th 2008 8:19PM

Damn I forgot about Siren....Does anyone kno if that game is any good?

Rob Accomando @ Jul 27th 2008 7:50PM

This trailer sold me on this game. I hope it's Bioshock good.

JontheNinja @ Jul 27th 2008 7:57PM

Holy crap that was the protagonist's head getting ripped off!

Haggard @ Jul 27th 2008 8:34PM

Yeah, I like how they've shown the protagonist as being really vulnerable in all the media; things aren't as scary if you're playing as Duke Nukem or some steroid munching space marine.

Blazur @ Jul 27th 2008 7:58PM

It's decided, I'm gonna play this game at night with wrap around headphones and the lights off.

Chris Are @ Jul 28th 2008 1:55AM

Aw man, now I'm gonna feel like a pussy if I DON'T do that.

Konstantin @ Jul 27th 2008 8:19PM

Dead Space is the new SystemShock2.
Hurray!!!

Nate Kowal @ Jul 27th 2008 8:27PM

This games screen shots really do remind me of Bioshock.

ratm @ Jul 27th 2008 8:38PM

They are trying too hard to make this game scary. It just isn't scary. Just gory.

ratm @ Jul 27th 2008 8:39PM

They are trying too hard to make this game scary. It just isn't scary. Just gory.

Cyro @ Jul 27th 2008 8:41PM

Pardon my ignorance. But doesn't blood freeze in space (vacumm)? I mean isn't like below zero in outer space?

Firewall @ Jul 27th 2008 9:22PM

Temperature in space varies widely. In the shade it can be very cold, in direct sun it can be several hundred degrees.

You certainly hear about the cold more though, as its easier to add heat to the suit than to try to radiate it back. Modern space suits even have blood heaters in them!

Cyro @ Jul 27th 2008 11:08PM

I am not sure that anything can be liquid in outer space. I just did some research and pretty much the consensus is 2.725 Kelvin, which is -270 degrees Celsius, or -455 Fahrenheit.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-temperature-in-space.htm

I mean this source can be BS, but thats pretty much what I read everywhere. So my point is, that in that trailer we just saw, the blood comming out of the dead corpse should not be flowing liquid out of him, He should've crystalized right away.

But what the hell do I know.

Anyone care to explain ?

Army Fork @ Jul 28th 2008 12:33AM

Space actually doesn't have a temperature, temperaturee is the measure of thermal energy held in a molecule, and space is a vacuum. But radiating sources of energy can heat molecules, by the process of a photon striking the molecule and exciting the molecule. That is what's known as heat. But unless there is not a powerful enough source of energy (distance and output being a factor), then the heat from the molecules will be shed in the form of photons and lost, thus causing the molecule to become less energised and change states, in this case, liquid to solid. Unless there is a source of heat, his blood should start to freeze rapidly.

aristokrat @ Jul 28th 2008 12:27PM

Since temperature is usually lost through conduction, in a vacuum could you actually lose heat? I mean, with nothing to suck the heat out of you, you couldn't lose heat unless you were able to transform it into another form of energy (which is not a common spontaneous event). That's why they use vacuums as insulators in those double walled coffee cups for instance. I'm not sure about this, and I'm guessing that space isn't a total vacuum, but without a destination to lose heat too, it seems like the blood could very well stay liquid. Looks like we need to call NASA.