Dead Space Ignition detailed at EA press event
At an EA press event today, a
Dead Space 2 producer showed the first footage of the downloadable interactive comic
Dead Space Ignition. The story, a prequel to the sequel, is delivered via lightly animated comic book-style art and follows an engineer on the Sprawl space station. Between the uniforms, the voices and the semi-animated look,
Ignition reminds us of
Sealab 2021 -- bizarro!
The engineer's job, of course, is to fix electronics, and that's where the main
interactive part comes into play, in the form of three minigames: "Hardware Crack," "System Override," and "Trace Route." Only Trace Route was shown today -- a hacking-themed riff on the abstract line racer,
Light Trax.
Ignition is coming to Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network this fall.
