Game Informer's latest magazine issue has arrived for subscribers, subsequently unveiling the first details for Dead Space 3.
Firstly, the co-op component that has been showcased via leaked images has been officially confirmed. Dead Space 2's competitive multiplayer, however, has been canned. A NeoGAF user posted the rest of the details, as seen below:
- Now has universal ammo pickups
- Cover system added
- Unitologists pose a threat now, the screens look like they’re shooting at Isaac while he’s taking cover
- Co-Op will add new cutscenes and interactions between Isaac and Carver: “If you play single player you’ll hear everything you need to hear to get the whole story.”
- Dead Space 3 will have zero gravity space sections, dark corridors, and all the other things that made the series what it is
- New necromorphs called Fodder, feeders & something Visceral internally calls ‘The snow beast’ plus a huge 30 story tall centipede necro morph called the Nexus
- Feeders are “what happens when a human isn’t actually infected by a Swarm or by a Divider head, but by necessity ends up eating the flesh of a turned necro”
- Icy Planet is called Tau Volantis
- Fodder transform into two different necromorphs depending on how you kill them
- Ammo drops are more plentifulThey want DS3 to be less linear than 2&1; be able to explore large environments and find “unique beta missions” that aren’t required to complete the main game
- You can slap different guns together like a Plasma cutter/Ripper combo; Visceral didn’t say “how exactly these weapon mods work” but GI noticed enemies drop Scrap metal and ‘tungsten’ now
According to the magazine, Dead Space 3 launches sometime during February, 2013. EA will officially unveil the title during its E3 press conference on Monday.
