Euro Dead Space DLC next week

By Tom Bramwell Published 14 October, 2008

New suits for Isaac.

EA has told Eurogamer that Dead Space downloadable content released for the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the horror title will not go live in Europe until 23rd October, the day before the game's European release.

Earlier we reported on Major Nelson's update that two new suits for protagonist Isaac Clarke had filtered onto Xbox Live.

The first of these, the Elite Suit, is a free level-five suit add-on featuring 360 colours, "upgraded toughness" and extra inventory slots. This is exclusive to 360, obviously, and Nelson's post about it says it's "free for a limited time only". Sounds like it probably gives you an easy ride, too.

Second is the Scorpion Suit, which is another level-five outfit with, er, enhanced armour and fully unlocked slots, except this on is "in an awesome red". Awesome enough to command 200 Microsoft Points, too, which is GBP 1.70 / EUR 2.40 in old money.

EA has told us that PS3 will also get some suit content, and that this and the 360 stuff mentioned above will be available to European gamers next Thursday. It will then be offered for two weeks, according to the publisher. All clear?

In the meantime, check out our Dead Space review to see how EA's space horror game turned out.

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Comments (15) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • karstux #1 3 years ago

    Back in the "old days", you would have been able to unlock these suits by completing the game on hardest difficulty (or something like that). Nowadays, you got to pay. Oh, the brave new world we live in...

  • FaceInTheCrowd #2 3 years ago

    oh for feck sake EA are you taking the piss

  • siro #3 3 years ago

    You really don't want a suit that makes the game incredibly easier AFTER you finished the hardest difficulty though.

    Also they offer the sponosred version for free. So really nothing to complain here.

  • Darren #4 3 years ago

    At least one of the suits is free (for a time anyway) but does anyone know if downloading these spoils the games in any way? I noticed the article mentions all the slots being unlocked...

  • neilka #5 3 years ago

    It's out today in the US, which explains the DLC being up now.

  • bloodflowers #6 3 years ago

    So now we get to pay ahead of time, for parts of the finished game.

    It's just a cynical cash grab now. Finish a game, then disable as much as you think you can get away with, to charge for later.

    Reconsidering my purchase.

  • login_name #7 3 years ago

    This kind of thing is ridiculous. I don't care how cheap they are neither should be downloadable, especially this early. They should be unlocked by in game goals, linked to achievements or a good old fashioned cheat code. Anyone who buys this crap truly has more money than sense.

  • Garibaldi #8 3 years ago

    That's the EA we know! I was getting worried they might be suffering an identity crisis after the recent games of surprisingly high quality.

  • skillian #9 3 years ago

    Aren't we a long way past the pretence that DLC is extra stuff thought up by the developers to add value and longevity to the game? They don't even try to pretend that anymore, so there's no point moaning that it comes too early.

    In fact, why not just price up and make available all the creeping DLC at the time of release? We'd get an early choice of what to buy, and we can see straight up which titles are intending to gouge us slightly less than the next.

  • dadrester #10 3 years ago

    FYI they're on the us PSN too. and one of them is free.

  • michaelius #11 3 years ago

    So Horse Armor again? :)

    2.40 euro hehe no thx I'll go and buy myself a beer :)

  • kinky_mong #12 3 years ago

    Still not as bad as The We Love Katamari DLC.

    "You must buy these levels that should have been in the full release if you want to unlock all 1000 achievement points!"

    Really? How about I don't buy the game at all? Done.

  • thesombrerokid #13 3 years ago

    they were pre order incentive the scorpian suit was supposed to be a PC exclusive

    note how old this news is

    http://mu ltiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/10/0...

  • menage #14 3 years ago

    Shame they didn't push the date up for this one as well. Now I will probably won't buy it, while I might have were it available now (I'm bored:p)

  • DanWhitehead #15 3 years ago

    You do actually unlock a new suit for completing the game - a Level 6 suit that is presumably better than these. And it's not really a spoiler - higher level suits just have more inventory spaces and armour.