By Alec Meer on January 28th, 2013 at 10:00 am.
I’m about as interested in Dead Space 3 as I am in having a conversation about loft insulation with Piers Morgan, but it’s Monday morning, there isn’t enough coffee in the world, there’s a trailer right in front of me, and monkey see, monkey do.
Except now I’ve heard a Phil Collins song as a result, SO MONDAY IS RUINED.
(Though it is the least-intolerable Phil Collins song, in fairness).
Dead Space 3 launches on February 8th (my sister’s birthday, not that she cares about space-zombie games), is polluted by microtransactions and looks like a hybrid of Lost Planet and Halo. Apart from that, it might be good – I mean, who knows?
28/01/2013 at 10:04 DevilSShadoW says:
Well, early happy birthday to your sister then!
So there. At least some good game out of this post.
28/01/2013 at 10:05 MiniMatt says:
True story. Many years ago when I was an even more minutive MiniMatt, my mother had her car broken into.
The dastardly villians stole the cassette player and all her cassette tapes.
Except the Phil Collins ones.
28/01/2013 at 10:19 DrAmateurScience says:
Bastards
28/01/2013 at 12:22 Imbecile says:
Discerning bastards!
29/01/2013 at 05:21 ffordesoon says:
Hee hee.
28/01/2013 at 10:07 Kaira- says:
So, Phil Collins hangover?
28/01/2013 at 10:32 TheApologist says:
I don’t know what I just watched but I loved it
28/01/2013 at 10:56 AngoraFish says:
My brain now hurts.
28/01/2013 at 14:24 Donkeydeathtasticelastic says:
I was going to link this. Now I don’t have to.
28/01/2013 at 17:10 Carbonated Dan says:
What subtle evil is this? There’s no part three! The horror!
28/01/2013 at 17:23 Snargelfargen says:
There’s one without subtitles, but that’s it. My Danish stops being helpful east of Sweden, sadly.
28/01/2013 at 18:00 Carbonated Dan says:
Aren’t there dinosaurs east of sweden?
28/01/2013 at 18:32 Snargelfargen says:
Worse. Russians.
(Please don’t kill me, Finns)
28/01/2013 at 19:38 Kaira- says:
Here be wildmen. And no mercy.
28/01/2013 at 10:08 Mathute87 says:
I don’t think it will be good. It will be “meh”, even more meh than DS2, but it’ll get farily good critics from comformist videogame journalism, who will praise the crafting and the co-op. Mark my words.
Me? I pass. Enjoy your game, people that are excited about it.
And, hey, the Tarzan songs aren’t that bad :P Cut the guy some slack.
28/01/2013 at 17:59 rsanchez1 says:
I wanna know if they’re not that bad.
Can you show me?
28/01/2013 at 10:09 Kapouille says:
What’s wrong with trailers those days? Sounds like the new fashion to choose random music to put on trailers.
28/01/2013 at 10:12 MiniMatt says:
I’d guess a realisation that wubstep is looking cliched has left creative directors scrabbling around firing random shots.
Next Call Of Duty release has licenced the Benny Hill themetune music. Heard it hear first.
28/01/2013 at 10:45 Bluerps says:
That would probably be the best CoD trailer ever.
28/01/2013 at 10:59 Chris D says:
Let’s find out:
http://tubedubber.com/#zuzaxlddWbk:ZnHmskwqCCQ:0:100:0:0:1
28/01/2013 at 12:57 Caiman says:
Holy shit, that’s perfect! I’m now convinced this was the original choice of music for this trailer until someone came along and replaced it with something dramatic. Works far better now in its original form.
28/01/2013 at 16:01 seamoss says:
Man, that was incredible! I don’t if it’s the sheer amount of Benny Hill skits I watched when I was a young ‘un, but I laughed till tears came to my eyes – thanks!
28/01/2013 at 14:51 jussipe says:
Ein Fall für zwei mit Isaac!
http://tubedubber.com/#U356b_x0_4U:6S-9IJJ_azY:0:100:0:0:1
01/02/2013 at 02:54 LeonardNimoysHead says:
Random? This is a really dark song about revenge. VIOLENT revenge. If this is game is about tracking down He Who Is Responsible and putting an end to the body horror zoo, then I couldn’t think of a more appropriate song.
28/01/2013 at 10:15 Rikard Peterson says:
The song is good, but the remix is just weird. I think it fits neither song nor ad.
28/01/2013 at 10:24 Ernesto25 says:
I really didn’t expect that to be the song it’s like they aren’t even trying to package this one as a horror game.
28/01/2013 at 10:32 TheApologist says:
Someone in PR heard Hotline Miami was the hip new indie thing?
01/02/2013 at 02:55 LeonardNimoysHead says:
It’s a song about taking violent revenge on someone who has done you serious harm. How is it not appropriate? That’s basically the plot of Dead Space 3.
28/01/2013 at 10:15 jussipe says:
Trailers like these should be taken at face value.
28/01/2013 at 10:24 MiniMatt says:
The trailer certainly informs that when exploring arctic environments a jacket is very much required.
28/01/2013 at 10:26 Ernesto25 says:
A helmet or anything to keep your head warm is optional though, good to know.
28/01/2013 at 11:07 Lanfranc says:
That said, surviving in an environment like that is really against all odds.
28/01/2013 at 10:32 F3ck says:
…but seriously. This has to stop now.
28/01/2013 at 10:34 Screamer says:
PHILCOLLINSPHACE?
28/01/2013 at 14:22 RaiderJoe says:
PHILSPACEFACE.
28/01/2013 at 19:30 SuperNashwanPower says:
GORILLAPLAYINGDRUMSFACE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP8E6ouSiC0
28/01/2013 at 14:57 jussipe says:
Necromorphs don’t know the meaning of invisible touch.
28/01/2013 at 10:15 Winged Nazgul says:
More like Miami Face 3
28/01/2013 at 10:15 DaftPunk says:
Strance choice for music haha :D Otherwise looks decent i guess,never was fan of previous dead space games.
28/01/2013 at 10:16 Gwilym says:
I’ve often wondered if Fill Columns is ever going to actually finish this song, since he’s been playing us the intro for nearly 35 years now. Could we hear the main bit, please?
28/01/2013 at 10:22 CelticPixel says:
You don’t want dubstep in your trailers, you don’t get dubstep in your trailers…
Also, needs more GORILLA DRUMMER FACE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnzFRV1LwIo
28/01/2013 at 10:27 Chizu says:
That ad is immediately what I thought of when this started up.
I think this advert is more likely going to sell more Cadbury’s chocolate than it is copies of Dead Space in the UK.
28/01/2013 at 11:35 The First Door says:
Lets not forget Bollos’ Audition for that advert too! ‘Just because I’m gorilla I’m only eat bananas?’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRBA36on1lc
28/01/2013 at 10:26 Blaaaaaaag says:
Piers will be disappointed.
28/01/2013 at 10:30 Optimaximal says:
So, what was this least-intolerable song?
(seriously, watching the trailer mute)
28/01/2013 at 16:25 P.Funk says:
Think… Mike Tyson… a Tiger… Ed Helms with one tooth.
28/01/2013 at 10:30 basilisk says:
I’ll admit I only played the first game, but it’s funny how this trailer doesn’t look anything like it.
(Which is not necessarily a bad thing, mind you, but still… the dissonance is enormous.)
28/01/2013 at 16:48 SkittleDiddler says:
It makes DS3 look like Lost Planet with co-op, which may or may not turn out to be accurate.
Also, “Best of 2013″ at the end of the trailer? There must be a time travel option in the game too.
28/01/2013 at 10:34 Juan Carlo says:
I used to hate Phil Collins too, but then I read an interview with him where he was even more down on himself than other people. Then I just kind of felt bad for him. He seemed like a pretty cool guy. And, love him or hate him, you can’t say he lacks pop sensibilities.
Plus, he seems really respected amongst alot of good hip-hop artists in the states, so some people with taste seem to like him.
28/01/2013 at 10:43 iucounu says:
It’s bizarre, isn’t it? There was a whole album of hip-hop Phil Collins covers. Here’s the late lamented Ol’ Dirty Bastard doing Susudio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRTgKKcv2qg
28/01/2013 at 10:35 FurryLippedSquid says:
I like Phil Collins… :(
28/01/2013 at 11:16 Saarlaender39 says:
You’re not alone!
And Mr.Meer will burn in all eternity in the fieriest dephts of hell – for him not liking this song…
I guess he never watched Miami Vice, because his Mom sent him to bed early, so he hates all good stuff related to this icon of the 80s.
;)
28/01/2013 at 11:46 Velko says:
The stuff he did with the Phil Collins Big Band (one live-album) is brilliant. Don’t care much for him outside that, though.
28/01/2013 at 12:41 Bhazor says:
A dislike of Phil Collins implies a dislike of Genesis. As such this view is wrong.
That said this song makes no god damn sense in this trailer unless Dead Space 3 has become a Silent Hillesque metaphor for a bumpy marriage.
28/01/2013 at 13:33 f1x says:
Everybody knows that the only good era of Genesis is the Peter Gabriel era
but yeah, Phil was already there by then, just they were wise enough to not let him sing, or at least not too much
28/01/2013 at 15:06 Rikard Peterson says:
I much prefer the Collins period of Genesis, but I do like what Gabriel did after he went solo.
28/01/2013 at 16:43 noom says:
I’m actually rather disturbed that more people haven’t jumped to Phil Collins’ defense. He’s bloody excellent.
28/01/2013 at 17:26 Snargelfargen says:
I enjoy Genesis and Phil Collins, but it really is the ultimate “dad music”.
28/01/2013 at 18:02 Rikard Peterson says:
That depends on the age of your dad, though. PC is too modern for mine.
When I type that, I realise that it’s pretty fitting for a blog on PC gaming. ;)
28/01/2013 at 10:35 Shinryoma says:
I had a feeling it was going to be that song. At least it’s not Sussudio.
28/01/2013 at 10:41 ZephaniahGrey says:
But Sussudio would have made this trailer 100x more entertaining.
28/01/2013 at 11:04 Savage Henry says:
This needs to happen!
28/01/2013 at 11:57 strangeloup says:
Wish, command, etc.
28/01/2013 at 10:39 Hodge says:
Phil Collins is a fucking genius.
28/01/2013 at 10:40 Neurotic says:
What an unusual mix of the song. Must capture it for my records.
28/01/2013 at 10:40 Matt7895 says:
The game seems to have been developed for co-op. As someone who loved DS1 and DS2 mainly for their claustrophic, you-are-alone horror, this concerns me
28/01/2013 at 10:42 JKjoker says:
why are they lying so badly ? i think there wasnt more than half a second of actual gameplay in that trailer, those were all cutscenes (in game engine cutscenes, but still not gameplay)
or are cutscenes considered “gameplay” these days ?
28/01/2013 at 10:45 Ernesto25 says:
It is if you played the walking dead *trollface*
28/01/2013 at 10:54 Revisor says:
Serious question: Why do you dislike Phil Collins? My parents used to like him, I considered him a pretty good foreign-language pop and the local tabloids have never written of him, him residing in another part of the EU and speaking an alien tongue.
28/01/2013 at 11:04 AngoraFish says:
It’s not gritty and alternative enough. It’s too popular, especially with your parents, so it must be uncool. Music that’s mellow, easy to listen to, easy to sing along with and cheerfully up-beat is a bad thing. Oh, and he’s a drummer.
28/01/2013 at 12:36 Vorphalack says:
What a long winded way of saying ”it’s bland pop”.
28/01/2013 at 12:48 LionsPhil says:
Simply being bland is not hate-inducing; more indifference-inducing.
28/01/2013 at 11:24 Faldrath says:
Phil Collins is actually a pretty good drummer, and was a large part of what made Genesis interesting in the early 70s. Many fans from that era were disappointed when, after Peter Gabriel left, Collins helped turn Genesis into a fairly standard/boring pop band in the 80s, and then embarked on an even more standard/boring pop solo career.
28/01/2013 at 10:55 Risingson says:
For a moment I thought that a moody “Against all odds” would play. Somehow I think it would fit perfectly.
28/01/2013 at 10:58 Snids says:
I dislike Alec’s overt opinion pieces. They feel a bit vulgar and Jim Stirling-esque.
28/01/2013 at 11:01 Alec Meer says:
POO BUM WILLY
28/01/2013 at 11:03 Xzi says:
THAT sounds a lot more like Jim Sterling. Now you just have to gain five hundred pounds.
28/01/2013 at 13:12 Snids says:
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
28/01/2013 at 13:37 f1x says:
ah Jim Sterling, the guy that gives random scores and pretends to be a comedian
is he still doing reviews?
28/01/2013 at 19:32 SuperNashwanPower says:
THANK GOD
For Meer
28/01/2013 at 10:58 pakoito says:
I’m one of the lucky ones that thought
SPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERS
Isaac died at the end of DS1
SPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERS
and the saga was over there, with one great round game.
28/01/2013 at 11:01 Xzi says:
Should have been the way things happened in both Dead Space and Mass Effect. The world would be a much happier place now.
28/01/2013 at 11:39 JKjoker says:
as a silent protagonist issac was easily disposable, they could have just made another dude/dudette in a different ship with a different horror (or maybe switching the ship for some scifi space building/space station/whatever) and nobody would have questioned its “dead spacyness”
but no, sequels imply putting no thought into the setting anymore other than “how can we make this game less unique and more like every other game, oh i know lets drop the ship/space station setting for a semi deserted planet with plentiful chest high walls, add coop and put emphasis in the shooting”
28/01/2013 at 11:02 Beybars says:
I’ve somewhat mixed feelings about this game. On the positive side, I love the lore and story behind the series, mainly because it was spearheaded by Warren Ellis and Anthony Johnston and I’m just curious as to what happens next.
On the downside, I don’t like the new setting too much, preferred the derelict space ship, or the new action oriented faster paced gameplay, I hope they try to imitate The Thing more so than Lost Planet.
28/01/2013 at 11:52 tobecooper says:
I think you mean Ben Templesmith. I don’t remember Ellis having anything to do with this.
Also, yeah, it would be great if they tried to imitate The Thing. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like it.
28/01/2013 at 12:14 Beybars says:
Yeah forgot about Templesmith, it was all three of them http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=6274, tho I don’t know how much they contributed to the third installment.
28/01/2013 at 13:29 tobecooper says:
You’re right.
It’s a pity they didn’t ask him to do the dialogs too. That would be interesting!
28/01/2013 at 11:03 Valerius Maximus says:
Oh man, all that horror! Just too spooky for me.
28/01/2013 at 11:05 deadfolk says:
It’s not possible to ruin Monday. It’s inherently rubbish to begin with.
But if it WAS possible – yeah, Phil Collins would do it.
28/01/2013 at 11:10 jokigenki says:
Whenever a Phil Collins song is used in an advert, Patrick Bateman kills a baby.
28/01/2013 at 12:53 DrScuttles says:
All the albums before Duke seemed too artsy, too intellectual. It was Duke (Atlantic; 1980), where Phil Collins’ presence became more apparent, and the music got more modern, the drum machine became more prevalent and the lyrics started getting less mystical and more specific (maybe because of Peter Gabriel’s departure), and complex, ambiguous studies of loss became, instead, smashing first-rate pop songs that I gratefully embraced.
28/01/2013 at 15:53 Archipelagos says:
/swoon
28/01/2013 at 11:21 Arcanon says:
I watched Angry Joe playing the Demo…..it’s now officially a third person shooter AND NOTHING ELSE. At least Dead Space 2 TRIED to be scary.
28/01/2013 at 11:36 Ernesto25 says:
i was thinking the same thing although i always kind of felt dead space wasn’t really good at horror unless horror is a jump scare every now and again. The 3rd person perspective didn’t help me feel scared at all and in both games the tutorial bits where you are weak is the closest i felt to being scared. I did like thing in the games but i never felt a massive urge to finish them due to feeling dosconnected from the game. as a whole.
28/01/2013 at 11:27 Tyrone Slothrop. says:
Phil Collins ruined Genesis and has made some of the worst music possible relative to demonstrated ability elsewhere.
28/01/2013 at 12:31 Cytrom says:
I don’t count fixed (cut)scenes as “actual gameplay footage” even if its rendered in game. There is a very big difference beetween free form interactive gameplay, and fixed camera quicktime events where your only ways of interaction is mashing a button to make something completely predefined happen that will happen exactly the same for everyone.
28/01/2013 at 12:32 Dowr says:
All I can see when I hear this song is that gorilla.
You know which gorilla I’m talking about.
28/01/2013 at 13:01 Caiman says:
How to EA expect to sell 5 million copies of DS3 when they create trailers like that? I mean, Phil Collins is pretty damn scary, but it doesn’t really work does it?
28/01/2013 at 13:37 db1331 says:
ACTUAL GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE
Show only in-game cinematics, no actual gameplay
28/01/2013 at 13:51 woodsey says:
Annnnd it’s still not been long enough for me to not think about that gorilla.
28/01/2013 at 14:36 Moraven says:
I was hoping it was phil collins in the suit when the helmet opened.
28/01/2013 at 15:04 studenteternal says:
I like how that suit can protect you from the cold and vacuum of space, but even with the helmet deployed he still shields his face with his hand to block the wind…
28/01/2013 at 15:11 phlebas says:
Blood and Gore
Intense Violence
Strong Language
Phil Collins
28/01/2013 at 15:38 UpsilonCrux says:
Is everything ever gonna have the sound from the Prometheus teaser in it now?
28/01/2013 at 15:55 Archipelagos says:
It was a really, really good trailer. Pity the actual film sucked but yeah, what can you do.
28/01/2013 at 16:37 P.Funk says:
“Vote Labour. If you don’t and the Tories get in, Phil Collins is threatening to come back from Switzerland and live here — and none of us want that.” –Noel Gallagher on the 2005 General election
Made me think of this.
28/01/2013 at 17:12 megazver says:
In The Air Tonight is a great song, shuddup >_<
28/01/2013 at 19:34 SuperNashwanPower says:
This is the second 360 gameplay video that is really showing the clunkiness and age of the platform now. I am surprised they don’t just automatically show the PC version in the trailer, like at shows. Or is that illegal?
28/01/2013 at 20:59 Christian Dannie Storgaard says:
I read the introductionary warning wrong and am now sad and wishing someone would actually create something worth a warning that says, “Intense language”.
01/02/2013 at 02:58 LeonardNimoysHead says:
I’m surprised at this response from RPS, actually. I find the song really appropriate. Isn’t this game about taking revenge on the guy responsible for the horrible things that have happened to Isaac over the previous two games? That’s part and parcel what this song is about. I’m not a fan of the cover, but I LOVED the choice of music. It actually makes me kinda want to play this, and I have no interest in this series whatsoever.