EA releases a launch trailer for Dead Space

According to the game's official description, "Isaac Clarke is an everyman engineer on a mission to repair a vast mining ship, the USG Ishimura, only to discover something has gone horribly wrong. The ship's crew has been slaughtered and Isaac's beloved partner, Nicole, is lost somewhere on board."

"Now alone and armed with only his engineering tools and skills, Isaac races to find Nicole as the nightmarish mystery of what happened aboard the Ishimura unravels around him. Trapped with hostile creatures called Necromorphs, Isaac faces a battle for survival, not only against the escalating terrors of the ship but against his own crumbling sanity."

The Dead Space remake is powered by EA's proprietary Frostbite engine. The same engine was used to develop Star Wars: Squadrons and the single-player campaign for Star Wars Battlefront II among other major EA releases in recent years.

EA and Motive have said that the remake will retain the plot of the original game. The studio has reworked the character models and the game environment. EA will be taking advantage of the newer hardware to remove loading screens from the game in what it calls an "uninterrupted sequence shot".

The original voice actors have returned to reprise their roles in the remake. The team at EA has said that it wants to stay true to the atmosphere of the original. The musical score from the original game has been reused with additional elements being added where it necessary.

Dead Space is coming to PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S on January 27, 2023.