EA have one more surprise for gamers: Visceral Games announced that the downloadable demo for Dead Space 3 will be available on Xbox Live and the Playstation Network starting on January 22nd 2013.

However if you’re planning on getting it for the Xbox, you can get exclusive access to the demo one week early! To do this you need to sign up at the Dead Space Demo website and you’ll be slicing up monsters from 15th January. The demo sees you play as unwilling hero Issac and his new co-op companion Sergeant John Carver after crash landing on the ice planet Tau Volantis – a planet that just so happens to be teeming with Necromorphs. Cue lots of horrific dismembering, suspense and action that makes the Dead Space series famous. Dead Space 3 will be released February 8th in Europe on Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC.

You can pretty much guarantee I’ll try my best to get the demo, so keep an eye out here for a preview! Anyone else planning on getting it?