Best guide ever:
1) Shoot everything that move.
2) Shoot everything that don't move.
3) Shoot everything that may move.

"Ch-check under the bed."
"All clear."
"O-ok n-now behind the curtains."
"Nothing here."
"And the c-closest?"
"Yep, don'- OHH HOLY ♥♥♥♥ MOTHER OF GOD!!! ITS DISGUSTING!! OH SHI--"
GARBLE, GARBLE, SCREEEEECH.

I love this game, but I don't think I can be considered a legally sane person anymore. Get this game if you: A. want to become insane or B. already are and need some relaxing to do. Either way check your corners, always.

Really Scary Shooter!
Once you have the mouse and framerate configured properly, this is actually a very nice Horror Third-Person Shooter with a cool story to it.

To fix the issues, visit http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Dead_Space#Mouse_Lag_and_Random_Sensitivity

Then put mouse sensitivity all the way up.
This game is very much worth it, so give it a chance after you fix it.

Would highly recommend!

Rating: "Worth playing"
Traditional Rating: 7.5/10
Platform: PC
Genre: Survival Horror

After a couple of hours of play, it would appear Dead Space is setting itself up to be the Ridley Scott's Alien of gaming. It almost suceeds to a point. Tense and fraught with danger, the suspense (coupled with the awesome sound design which truly heightens the atmosphere to harrowing levels) is almost unbearable at times. Every corridor you traverse holds some nasty alien surprise lying in wait to decapitate or gut you to pieces. The game sets up a fantastically eerie environment from the get-go and it feels like you live the game as you play it.

Being a survival horror don't expect ammunition to be lying around every single corner so the player needs to make sure that every shot counts when trying to take down these monstrosities. You can easily stock up on ammunition at the various shops set up around the spaceship but money is in very short supply and the ammunition itself is not cheap so often the player will find themselves in a situation where choices need to be made. Does one sacrifice extra ammo in favour of buying a medi-pack for healing or a node for upgrading weapons? This is not a game where you can have your cake and eat it.

I enjoyed the fact that Visceral Games chose to go for the amputating of various body parts to bring enemies down rather than the usual stock standard shot to the head that is the common norm in shooters these days. Where Dead Space unfortunately falters is with its clichéd story (an alien hive mind and artefacts form the backbone of the story). From a pure storytelling experience there is nothing new here that hasn't been told before countless times in other mediums.

The gamer is left playing a mute protagonist, Isaac Clarke, who doesn't say a word throughout the game to the various characters he comes into contact with which ultimately leaves him as one of those personalityless heroes that I find difficult to rally around in the age of Commander Sheppard and Ezio Auditore.

Criticisms aside - the game is still a scarily good time with headphones cranked up to full and the lights turned off!

I know this game is quite "old", I think it came out in 2008 or something like that but not only until now I got around to playing it. Dead Space is possibly not a horror game for me, it has some jumpscares and sometimes when a new enemy appeared I kinda freaked out trying to learn how to defeat him. The game itself relies on the dismemberment of enemy limbs in order to kill them, it also features some puzzle "sections" where you need to manipulate gravity and slow down "stuff" using your stasis in order to complete a certain objective. The soundtrack really keeps up the rythm and the action of the game with some intense sections where the music pumps in. Now, as far as I'm aware the PC version was ported from the 360 version and somehow (I doubt it's just me) they forgot to get rid of the mouse acceleration and smoothing which really annoyed me quite some times but once you get used to it, it's all good. Now, for me, the strongest point of Dead Space has to be the story, it's kinda "unique" per say and I really dig into these sort of religion fanatics messing up with alien tech. Another thing I must say is that the developers really put alot of effort into making the game world "realistic", across the USG Ishimura you'll find various advertising panels some of which are different and I feel like those small additions to the world design really make it unique and engaging. I believe I have nothing else to say about Dead Space besides telling you to go give it a try if you haven't played or beated it yet.