Dead Space Anyone?

[Corpse Grinder]

Do we have any Dead Space fans? Or EA Redshore fans?

[Sr Machinehead]

I suppose i could be called a dead space fan.

[Skylar1]

They did a pretty good job actually of constantly keeping you on edge and taking away your feeling of safety.

Creatures could attack you from any which way without warning, but it wasn't so over the top too that it ruined the game. So yeah, kudos to the producers for keeping a well balanced horror game.

[Ryuuzaki HD]

I still have to finish it, finding it really boring all the monsters are really dull and uninteresting to fight, the only reason I got it was a glitch on EA's site making it free. But Dead Space 2 looks promising enough.

[Crazyjavi87]

I enjoyed Dead Space. Adding to what Eric said, the game makes you feel alone. Kinda like silent hill 2 in a way were you have no assistance and most assistance you get either dies or is so herp derply fail.

[Sr Machinehead]

The game is still fun on impossible as well. I went through a whole chapter last night with either a very small amount of ammo or none. I ended up killing pretty much every enemy with stasis and a bunch of melees or slamming them with objects. Still the most fun I've had in a while though.

[BoldMushroom]

Creatures could attack you from any which way without warning...

I agree with this, to an extent. After a while, I felt the points at which monsters did (or could) attack you became pretty predictable. Is there a vent? A monster could come out of it. Did you just complete an objective or collect a Power Node? Monsters are probably on the way. Is that lift descending just a little bit longer than you think it should? Expect monsters from above.

That's not to say it isn't thrilling and exhilarating. Though I didn't find the game particularly difficult (I didn't need to use a weapon other than the Plasma Cutter until about Chapter 9), but even when I could predict a set piece, I still never knew exactly how things were going to go down, which kept me alert. Plus, the atmosphere is great; the gunplay is great; the game plays like a dream. It definitely "borrows" heavily from Doom 3 and Resident Evil 4, but when you borrow from fun games, the result tends to be fun.

[Eris]

There once was a brilliant FPS, set in space, with an insane artificial intelligence, and some sort of half-cyborg mutants running around the ship. It was a horrifying game, where they were many, and you were alone (and so they informed you as they whacked you with a pipe-wrench). This game sold well, but unfortunately doesn't run on Windows XP or later, so not many of the younger generations have ever played it. The creators wanted make sequels, but they were not united, so they tore and tore until the game broke apart. One group got most of the intellectual property, and the other got most of the talent. The group with most of the intellectual property took many years, until they announced "We've made a spiritual sequel to the game!" But the group with the talent didn't sit on their hands either, and started from scratch, making a similar game of space horror. That game is Dead Space. The spiritual sequel was BioShock.

The great space game of horror and cyborg mutants was System Shock 2, which was a real genre-definer of a game, inventing many narration tropes we take for granted today in horror games. Whenever you find an audio log, think of System Shock 2, as it not only invented them, but used them at a level that many games today fail to match.

[RaShayRitto]

I found Dead Space highly disappointing. It was superbly and lovingly crafted and the team deserves a pat on the back, but it was so far removed from actually being scary that I got really bored and stopped playing halfway through. On hard mode I felt way too well equipped to kill anything and everything

[Crazyjavi87]

Then play hard mode again with only a plasma cutter. I actually plan on doing that just for the sake of dead space 2. Remember kids, if you don't first play it on anything that isn't hard, the game will seem far to easy(and it's true in a sense.)

[Rayoku Abyss]

Dead Space Fan reporting in.

I loved it, I always played it at night, was always jumpin,
They did an amazing job.
I really enjoyed the creatures scream it was so intense unlike anything i'd ever seen in a video game,
So im definitely going to buy the Second.
Just by the E3 Trailer I was at the edge of my seat OMGing lol :P
Gotta love Next Gen Video Games Jah?

[Nineteenth]

Personally, it was far too easy. I was kinda disappointed when it felt like they just decided to remake Run Like Hell and market it as a brand new game. All and all it was an okay idea and a great game if you didn't play everything that inspired it. If you were like me and did, ugh.