• Developers: EA Redwood Shores
  
• Publishers: Electronic Arts
  
• Initial release: Oct 2008
  
• Genre: Action, Horror
  
• #Worth/NotWorth: #Worth

Dead Space is a horror game. In where you play as our reluctant and intrepid hero Issac Clarke, a technician. Sent to the USG Ishimura, a Planet-Cracker class ship designed for mining. Upon arrival, Issac and friends have a bit of a tift actually docking with the Ishimura. After avoiding near death almost immediately upon introduction. We find ourselves upon the ship ready to get to work; Only no one is responding to our radio hails. Entrance into the first room, we are attacked by monsters later given the name Necromorphs and being the consummate professional that Issac is we decide to continue to repair the ship regardless of it's now infested alien presence.

And so it begins...

It's not a terribly in depth game. It is indeed your basic walk through hallways and shoot anything that moves sort of affair. But it's an effective and atmospheric one even still today. Is it contrived that in a world that requires you to dismember enemies you're given a plasma cutter that is effective at range and presumably your character would know not only how to use it but an expert in his field? Yes, it is.

The story is more in depth, I feel, than most horror. Creating a universe rather than “an experience”. Without saying anything specific, the game makes commentary on the frivolity of desperation in the creation of a new religion based almost exclusively on not knowing something. The game does feature what I'd consider “insanity effects” but they are more scripted than ambient.

Throughout the game Issac does not speak. Sometimes awkwardly not saying anything but mostly this is reminiscent of the Gordon Freeman effect wherein it allows the player to place themselves more into the role. Now, at this point I should mention this is my 3rd play-through of this game and that I have also completed the rest of the trilogy. The series takes a direction that I am both happy with and thought could have been better. But that is neither here nor there. This is the beginning of that adventure.

Mechanically, it's a shooter with a camera made popular by Gears of War and Resident Evil 4. It was also made in a time that “immersion” was all the rage. The HUD appears entirely “in-game” meaning that all feedback normally given to the player (Health, power for abilities, ammo count, inventory) are all made visible in-world to the characters themselves. You collect power nodes used for upgrading either your suit or weapons.

The big mechanically unique thing regarding this game is the Zero-gravity areas. They are interesting, at the time they may have been more impressive but they stand to be a pretty standard element.

Sound design is excellent, walking into the vacuum of space is always an incredible feeling hearing only the muffled shuffles within your own suit.

Now, there is a section of this game that is borderline game breaking. It's one of the more egregiously needless frustrating sections of a game I've ever seen. Which incidentally speaks volumes to the rest of the game. I don't want to say exactly what it is, I get that it's supposed to be a stressful situation but I know a number of people that actually stopped playing the game because of that section.

Addressing more topical issues, the game has full gamepad support and there is no issue with this. However, if you desire to use mouse and keyboard you'll notice that even at max sensitivity the controls are as though they are stuck in quickly hardening mud. (I used a 1600DPI mouse at max sensitivity and moved the mouse roughly 1ft actual space and turned about 90° in game) However, there is a simple solution to these issues. For whatever reason EA forgot to and didn't patch the fact the game V-sync doesn't include the mouse (console ports huh), so you'll have to force enable it through the video card control panel. The v-sync works as expected otherwise.

THE GIST
Atmospheric, weight-y and heavy combat with a great narrative universe.

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Dead Space is a fun horror survival game I have owned numours times and enjoyed replaying. I first bought this game on the PS3 and put almost 2 days worth into playing it both for achievements and the experience. Dead Space's atmosphere is great and does a beautiful job of creating a spooky sci-fi horror on top of third person survival shooting. The game's story starts off as players playing as an engineer named Isac Clark who knows how to fix EVERYTHING and his team who were sent to fix a planet cracker ship called the Ishimurra. Clark's wife named Nicole was working on the Ishimurra untill something went wrong with their dig site and sent out a distress call for help. As Clark's team enters the Ishimurra they uncover the horrorfying necromorphs in the ship and try to desperatly escape. This game offers hours of fun from straight replayability to the experimenting with gear and tactics used to help you survive. The equipment in Dead Space is upgradable consisting of your suit (RIG), Stasis, Kenisis Module, and a total of 6 guns to use; 5 of them purchasable in game. These upgrades require nodes found in game or purchased at the store to upgrade their arsenal. In order to kill these necromorphs players are forced to shoot/cut thier limbs off instead of just shooting their head or torso bringing a new formula to survival shooting. Shooting thier legs off will only make them crawl towards players and shooting their heads off will make them swing wildly and aimlessly. The horror in this game is good and provides good jump scares even to people who replay the game. There are small mini games in Dead Space both rewarding prizes that aid the player in upgrading equipment or selling to the store. Dead Space is a great horror survival shooter with replayability both for higher difficulty and new game + to experiment with new weapons or simply play again with current equipment. I would not recommend purchasing this game on its own purchasing the Dead Space 1 & 2 bundle is a better price and more bang for your buck as the sequel is equally if not better than the original Dead Space.

Great atmosphere! Great toilets! Great spooky noises! Gud game!

The best game I ever played and I am not exaggerating.Excels in in a lot of perspectives like story,gameplay,design,concept and sound.Played this game over 10 times and still gives me the creeps.
I recommend it from the botton of my heart.You will not regret buying it.

best survivor horror game!!~^^

I don't actually have a review, I played the game when I was 14 years old, which, despite my anime avatar, complete lack of an actual sense of humor and the fact that I use the phrase "dank memes" unironically, is quite some years ago.

I just want to say that there is a bug in this game which changes your difficulty from [literally anything] to hard and there is (or back then at least there was) no way to resolve it. So I never got to play through the game. I assume the ending is really good tho!

This is the one that started it all.

Join engineer Isaac Clarke on his creepy space adventure, wherein you must fight your way through an infestation of horrid undead abominations and face off against a fanatical death cult.

In order to get the game to work correctly I would highly suggest looking up what other users have done to tweak the game’s settings, as it suffers from horrible console port-itus. Here’s a quick reference for ya.

pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Dead_Space

Don’t let this dissuade you from playing it however, as it is a highly entertaining, monster filled romp through the bowels of the USG Ishimura, a gunmetal grey and black mining ship that literally rips out the cores of planets for relentless human resource consumption.

If you like futuristic space horror, this is one of the best.

For a full length review, in which I detail how much of a wuss I was at the start of this game, followed by my signature long, rambling analysis, just click the link below.

http://www.opinionatedslant.com/dead-space-review

Hey you like DOOM 3 and resident evil 4, well this is the game for you.

I Love this game,

Enemeies are gruseome but somewhat repititve in appearance, they make up for this for being incredibly powerful, they often try to outsmart you or outnumber you.

The Guns are interesting , and get increasing powerful at the cost of items. Soem are OP , others are retardly useless.
the range of weapons is limited by the ammount of ammo you will need stocked, and the ammount yopu want to carry, oh... don't forget the health items!

Puzzles, there aren't that many in this game but they are certainly risk, and careful decision making, for example a door locked a by a rare item, may only contain cash, but another may contain two of those same items.

Story, Although rather simplistic , it is told in a way that motivates you to keep playing, the enviornment seems to grow worse as the story goes on.



the only part I hate is thae damn asteroid shoot... Why? Why did they include that?

7/10...2 points lost due to above

Game yg bagus