DEAD SPACE

Dead Space, so far is one of my new top favorite games.

Personally I think this game deserves every bit of a perfect score, EA Redwood ( I think thats right) has done an amazing job with this one. Every inch of the game is super polished and everything is just plain amazing!

After looking on the EA site for Dead Space's media its obvious that this game was set up to deliver. Amazing claims from very prominent magazines and news publications were hyping this game up to be a MASSIVE hit. I actually only saw one or two trailers of Dead Space and thought it looked cool, then I just left it there for a few months. But once Daniel reminded me this game was out that we should go to the midnight release, which no one had unfortunately.

Our local Game stop didn't have a midnight release, but we returned the next day with little resistance to get to the counter.

But within the first 5 minutes of actually playing the game I really got scared and jumped a few times. The 42" HDTV and surround sound really didn't help our case to stay somber during the clutch moments. But this game is really scary, like John Carpenter scary, not that M-night Shamalan suspense bullshit.


Yet as always I have already heard gripes about the game mainly about it's story relating to another very good game; Doom. Now Mike brought this to my attention which I really agreed with him about how its almost a "rip-off" of Dooms story. so lets compare shall we?


Doom:
hybrid/zombie things: check
religious undertones: check
futuristic: check
very scary: check
in space: no
on an alien planet: check
Alternate dimensions: check

Dead Space:
hybrid/zombie things: check
religious undertones: check
futuristic: check
very scary: check
in space: check
on an alien planet: check
Alternate dimensions: no


OK so not too much different, yes doom was more a military based FPS where as Dead Space is a third person RPG. But I do agree with Mike on how similar the two are, but as I told him "sex sells." No, you don't get to invade the main chicks pink taco stand in this one, but rather the combination of space/zombies/guns/horror/scary shit/jugs really sells well. And you know just give the people what they want and if its killing bloodthirsty zombies with shotguns then give it to them. Yet with Dead Space shotguns are now plasma guns.

We are still deciding who is going to review this one, so far only Mike has beaten the game through a marathon gaming session lasting exactly 12 hours. I having watched the game played for most of those 12 hours and having commitied about 8 hours of my time to actually playing it. Daniel is doing th deed now, yet on hard mode.

So who knows, maybe me, maybe Daniel, or even Mike.