As Electronic Arts tries to solidify its presence in the first-person genre with new Battlefield and Medal of Honor titles, the publisher is also looking to boost its action game library considerably.

Speaking to IGN in an interview last week, EA Games President Frank Gibeau said that while he's pleased with the success Dead Space 2 has seen commercially in early 2011, he still believes there's more room for growth with the series. Gibeau applauded Capcom's efforts of taking Resident Evil to the mass-market and hopes Dead Space can follow suit.

"The Resident Evil series was awesome, the early versions were phenomenal. [Capcom] did a good job of growing the franchise to a very large market," Gibeau said. "I think we still have some areas to grow with Dead Space in terms of trying to reach a broader audience without losing the quality and that survival-horror mechanic. That's how we're going to think about it as we think about Dead Space 3 and what we do next with the IP."

EA hopes lightning strikes twice this year as it prepares to launch its second action title in June, Shadows of the Damned. Famed Grasshopper Manufacture producer Suda 51 teamed up with Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami for the project, which takes grindhouse-style spin on the genre.

"Overall, we want to try and grow the business in the action category," Gibeau later explained. "EA doesn't really have a very strong stake there; survival-horror kind of lives in that genre. 3rd-person action is something that we think we can build and our Visceral Games team is really working hard at crafting some new IPs as well as building out ones that have succeeded."

Gibeau said the publisher is thinking long-term for the survival-horror brand. "Horror movies are great films; it's a genre that's been around for decades. We think the same holds true for interactive," he added.

Is dead space any good?...i was thinking of getting it and i want to know what others think of it

I got DeadSpace2 and I have played it twice, never again will I take advise of the guy at the shop because he asked me if I played Black Ops and I said, "who doesn't" then he said "If you play Black Ops zombies then you'll love DeadSpace because its just like zombies appart from they are aliens, you play as a soldier or alien" Then I thought that would be really cool if i could try and eat my friends as a alien. But anyways I brought it and played it and I never want to see it again. However this is just my opinion thoe. :p

Excellent game and I will guarantee you will shit your pants on more than one occasion!

Hopefully this means something, i never played dead space 1 i mean never one time ago i glimpse my cousin playing part 1 on ps3 going for a trophy with this brute looking monster. I heard that part 2 was coming out so i say let me just get it, i really enjoyed the game as it took gaming to a whole new level, the storyline the graphics and the controllers not to mention the gameplay was awesome. At a point of time i got tired because the chapters are sometimes long and was so much i think 14 i stop on chapter 9 for atleast 2 weeks after that i went back onto playing it. I loved the ending as well as you didn't see it coming and i know some people was expecting more but however my point of view i loved it.