Catch up with 'Dead Space' in 'The Story So Far' clip

Chilling survival horror series "Dead Space" -- cribbing notes from sci-fi movies "The Thing" and "Event Horizon," warning us against mankind's unchecked lust for power -- has issued a three-minute story catch-up in advance of February's "Dead Space 3."

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Chilling survival horror series 'Dead Space' -- cribbing notes from sci-fi movies 'The Thing' and 'Event Horizon,' warning us against mankind's unchecked lust for power -- has issued a three-minute story catch-up in advance of February's 'Dead Space 3.'

The first game in the series, released in 2008, was a surprise hit that reinvigorated interest a then-ailing survival horror genre; come 2011, 'Dead Space 2' was trading some of that measured, terrifying pacing for more nectomorph-battling action.

'Dead Space 3' swaps space stations for a desolate snow planet and introduces a cooperative, multiplayer mission mode.