| Dead Space (Xbox 360) |  | From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
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Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 67
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: sci-fi-action-games
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5030930066260
ASIN: B00197YSGK
Release Date: October 24, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: No cellophane, but never used
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Brilliant December 30, 2008
What a game. Before I start, I'm a huuuuuuuge fan of Resident Evil 4, so if you weren't in to that, you might not be as enthusiastic about this game as I still am, but it's hard not to be blown away by this game. The story and premise is simple enough - you're an engineer sent out to a stricken spaceship somewhere in, er, space that was in the process of mining for stuff. The vessel hasn't been making contact so you've been sent out there to iron out the technical hitch. Obviously you realise shortly after arriving that there's a little more to it, and this is confirmed in brutal fashion.
The game itself is jaw dropping. The visuals are amongst the most impressive I've seen on the 360, with a phenomenal amount of thought and detail being put in to the environment. Lighting is used to good effect - dark corners momentarily being lit by blinking and flickering lights for example. The mood is enhanced further by the sound - the sound of the necromorphs is chilling, especially when you hear them before seeing them, and the sound of the protagonists panicked gasps when fighting for oxygen adds immensely to the realism.
Game play is in fact very similar to RE4, although it's nice to be able to run sideways whilst pointing your weapon (so to speak) forwards. Inventory management is also kind of similar, requiring a need to ration equipment and ammo, as you can only carry a limited amount (that increases with suit upgrades). The game encourages a little exploration, although this is limited to checking out lockers and dark corners, rather than finding your own routes - progression is fairly linear, but that's not to say that the environment feels contrived - the spaceship feels believable and realistically constructed, and not just designed to suit a video game.
Played on easier difficulties, you can afford to be a little gung-ho with your ammo and equipment, but played on the hardest setting, resourcefulness and reserved use of ammo isn't just helpful, it's necessary. To this end, it's vital to learn early on the quickest ways of despatching enemies - as you probably already know, headshots will not instantly kill enemies, and it's more effective to remove limbs, and stamp on leg-less enemies whilst they're down. All very satisfying and straightforward played on 'easy', but again, played on harder difficulties, I've never known a game to ever create so much tension or induce such panic. Level 5 was almost an ordeal. I won't spoil it, but this is a shining example of how a sense of urgency and desparation can be created within a game.
Dead Space has appeared pretty much under the radar, what with all the Fallout 3, Call of Duty, Fable 2, etc having similar release dates, but this game will not disappoint. Amazing stuff.
Pack a spare set of underwear!! December 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My god you'll need them...
This game is simply superb, so unique and superbly crafted by the creators. You simply must experience this masterpiece, if you have the stomach for it!?
Without giving too much away the game begins with you and a crew of astronauts on course to investigate a distress beacon from a stricken spaceship, and you guessed it all hell has broken loose when you arrive. You find yourself from the very beginning isolated from your crew forced to stumble your way through the eerie and downright terrifying tunnels and rooms of the stricken ship.
The game reminds me of the better sci fi horrors such as the original Alien, and the more recent Event Horizon and I must take my hat off to the creators of the game. How do you create fear? Well they have. I found myself many times literally jumping in shock, from the noise of pipes and metal dropping somewhere in the murky depths of the ship, to encountering the most foul beats imaginable.
Armed only with futuristic deep space tools, such as mining equipment, you must creep, fight and run (in absolute fear) your way through the ship, fixing the vessel along the way in a desperate attempt to escape.
As soon as I put the disc in the x box and began playing I realised this game was something very unique...it actually frightened me. And mark my words, from a horror fan who has watched every scary film imaginable it is not an easy task to scare me, but I felt genuine fear at certain parts of the game, and I challenge you too not feel scared to. Just remember when you play the game turn the lights off and turn on the surround sound, and get those spare Y fronts ready...
Hide behind the sofa, but can stop playing December 29, 2008
Read the reviews about this game and was instantly interested. If you've seen Alien, it's kind of like playing that. The graphics are superb, playing them on HD. The game atmosphere is superb, lots of dark or poorly lit corridors and music that sets the ambience perfectly. To be honest the game starts and you'ree not really sure whats about to happen. All you know is that you're there to fix a broken space ship. But as you wonder about the story unfolds. Played the first night with the light of and the wife in bed. Surely the neighbours must have heard me scream at least twice. The game just builds suspense all the time. It's not constant rush of bad guys. There's spells when you dont see anything, but you know they're there and the suspense just builds. If never played a game where you have a mission to go somewhere and do or get something. You get to the door of the room and your like " I dont want to open this door". Then you psyche your self up, open the door and see blood splattered walls, pieces or ships crew scattered over the floor or hanging from the ceiling. You just sit there thinking, " I dont want to go in, please dont make me!". So far I'm six hours in and cant wait to play again. I recommend the lights of the volume up and the wife holding your hand!!!!
Superb Horror Romp! December 15, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Hello all.
I haven't had so much fun playing a horror survival game since the Resident Evil and Silent hill games on the Playstation!
Those were the games that amazed you because you had never played anything like it before. As one reviewer pointed out the feeling of playing Resident Evil and you meet your first zombie eating away at a corpse, or the dog jumping through the window and making your heart jump out of your mouth!
Now im not saying that Dead Space will blow you away like those other horror games did because we've come to know what to expect from horror games these days. It is very hard to be original. But what this game does is re-ignite that drive and terror you once had when playing Resident Evil and Silent Hill. Lets face it, nothing has compared since. The sequals have been dire and even though there has been some fun horror games, there hasn't been too much amazing.
I think Dead Space is fantastic has it combines the action of Resident Evil and atmosphere of Silent Hill. The enemies are gruesome and the boss enemies are scary! One of which will surely remind you of the unstoppable tyrant of the Resi series. The way in which you can dispatch enemies is ultra cool too. Its best to take there limbs off so they can't run and eat you, and while they are writhing around ont he floor you can just go and put them out of there misery by stomping there face off haha.
The space ship is very claustropobic and walking down those narrow corridors is not a pleasent experience. You see you never know where you enemy will spring from as they hide in the ventilation system and they just love to spring out when you least expect it. A simple small corridor holds many of these vents and you could easily be attacked from behind if you let your guard down.
The weapons you get are excellent, i think there are about 6 in total and you can make them even more powerful( Damage, reload speed, capacity etc) by collecting power nodes that build them up. There are not enough nodes to build up all guns so its best to decide early what guns you want to stick with. I tend to stick to 3 weapons, the original gun you get,the line gun and pulse rifle. Power nodes are also handy if you want to unlock certain rooms which they hold a few goodies, although you may prefer to keep it to build up your weapons or your space suit. You will have fun deciding, thats for sure.
I like how the game picks up in increasing difficulty as the game goes on. Obviously thats what all games do but i feel this one does it perfectly. The intensity picks up drastically as you come to the end of the 12 chapters. it took me a good 13 hours to complete, bear in mind that im cautious and like to savour the game as opposed to rushing through it.
Don't worry about it only being single player either. It doesn't need multiplayer mode and you will understand when playing it. Play this ALONE!
great fun December 14, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
this game is fun to play and looks amazing as well for some people it can be realy sceary with the strainge happernings in it i would recomend this game as a must have there is also a film of the game with tells u the story of the game watch the anmi or play the game u wont be dissopointed film dosent come with game u have to buy it seperet
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