Barring any delays, Dead Space 3 will release in North America on February 5, 2013 and in Europe on February 8. Pre-ordering the Limited Edition will earn you access to the First Contact and Witness the Truth bundles, which contain unique in-game suits and weapons.
Look below for what EA says those things are. Look above for the new Gamescom trailer, full of screeching space violence. And remember that we must always be twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom . (Or our recent Dead Space 3 preview .)
"First Contact" Bundle
- First Contact Suit: This unique EVA (Extra-Vehicular Activity) suit was built by the SCAF (Sovereign Colonies Armed Forces) for encounters with "foreign entities.” It sports a flamboyant golden finish to provide protection from long-term space exposure and thick armor for… unspecified reasons. The suit was given the nickname "First Contact" by the scientists who made it.
- Negotiator Weapon: While technically classified by the SCAF as a "scientific instrument,” the gold-plated "Negotiator" is loaded with some surprisingly aggressive hardware. The overclocked, top-mounted Tesla Beam is capable of bursting a man-sized organism into several pieces with a single shot. The bottom-mounted Linegun appears to have been built with the sole purpose of cleanly dismembering organic tissue from a distance.
"Witness the Truth" Bundle
- Witness Suit: These insulated suits were worn by a SCAF deep dig team assigned to exhume the darkest secrets of Tau Volantis. Whatever they found locked deep in the ice changed them forever. When they emerged weeks later, they were covered head to toe in strange graffiti and claimed to be "Witnesses to the Truth.”
- Evangelizer Weapon: A modification of the standard AL-2 used by the Sovereign Colonies Legionaries, this version sports a souped-up AL-2g assault rifle on the top with an Emerson 2100 "Big Boy" tactical shotgun on the bottom. The surviving "Witnesses" of the SCAF deep dig team dubbed it the Evangelizer and decorated them top to bottom with strange symbols.
Though I'm never the type to scramble for pre-order bonuses (or pre-orders at all), I do like any weapon called a "Negotiator." The Evangelizer reminds me of Billy Graham's Bible Blaster .
Did I mention that it's Simpsons Reference Tuesday?
