Key Highlights:
- EA and Visceral Games announced Dead Space 3: Awakened on 5 February 2013 with a March release window.
- The DLC was confirmed for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC at $9.99 or 800 Microsoft Points.
- Awakened was pitched as a darker continuation of Dead Space 3, with Visceral promising some of the series’ most disturbing content.
Electronic Arts and Visceral Games announced Dead Space 3: Awakened on 5 February 2013, confirming that the downloadable expansion would arrive in March for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.
The announcement arrived alongside the North American launch of Dead Space 3, which was due to release in the UK on 8 February.
Interest in the game was already high before launch, with the Dead Space 3 demo reaching more than two million downloads shortly before Awakened was announced.
EA described Awakened as an extension of the Dead Space 3 experience and said players would encounter some of the darkest and most disturbing content the series had produced.
Visceral Games executive producer Steve Papoutsis said the studio wanted Dead Space 3 to retain the franchise’s suspense, horror, action and sound while introducing features such as drop-in/drop-out co-op and weapon crafting. He added that Awakened would push its horror further.
At the time of the announcement, EA had confirmed only a March release window rather than an exact date. The DLC was priced at $9.99 on PlayStation Network and PC through Origin, or 800 Microsoft Points on Xbox Live.
Awakened ultimately launched on 12 March 2013 in North America and through Origin and Xbox Live, followed by its European PlayStation Network release on 13 March. The expansion continued Isaac Clarke and John Carver’s story directly after the ending of Dead Space 3.
