You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense between the remaining living crew and deadly reanimated corpses. The undead have become Necromorphs; horrific zombie-alien hybrids that won't succu...
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense between the remaining living crew and deadly reanimated corpses. The undead have become Necromorphs; horrific zombie-alien hybrids that won't succumb to traditional means. Fortunately, your offense is equally unique, as the high-powered mining tools at your disposal provide the means to fight against the threat.
Messy monster slaying.
The Necromorphs are unlike any enemies you've seen before. Headshots do about as much damage to them as flicking rubber bands. To survive, you'll need to dismember their insect-like limbs, one at a time.
Improvised weapons.
There aren't many traditional firearms aboard the Ishimura, but there's plenty of stopping power in Isaac's toolkit. Send horizontal or vertical blasts of energy at enemies with the Plasma Cutter, remotely control a high-speed sawblade with the Disc Ripper, and fill hallways with wide swaths of destruction with the Line Gun. Switch things up with alternate fire modes, and purchase upgrades to increase ammo, power, and reload speed.
Real-time attacks.
Whatever you do, don’t drop your guard. Everything takes place in real-time. That means any action you take, whether it be reloading or digging through your inventory, gives the Necromorphs a perfect opportunity to attack. This nightmare has just begun and it’s up to you to get to the bottom of what happened here.
Dead Space 1 (2008) Is one of those classic games, that you just can't get enough off. Despite it being over 15 years old. The the tense atmosphere, horro and gore still holds up. To this day.
Unfortunately, This game was originally made for consoles. And the pc port, just wasn't that good. So it's stuck in 30 fps. But that can be fixed, if you go to the the ingame options and turn V-Sync off. But also go to Nvidia control panel and turn Vsync on there and also lock the game to 60 fps. Do this and you're good to go!
Dead Space is a great survival horror set in space, with the twist that you need to target limbs instead of just the head to effectively kill enemies, it was inspired by Resident Evil 4, and so on and so forth.
The GoG version of Dead Space works mostly well on Windows 7 64-bit, although I still needed to apply a third party mouse aiming patch, because the devs did not give 1/10ths of a s*** to make it work well themselves.
Even with the third party mouse patch, the non-aiming looking around camera is a bit under sensitive, and for some reason when you're walking on the sticky stuff that slows you down, the camera sensitivity goes NUCLEAR. That makes no damn sense, why does it do this?!
Also the game runs at a horribly fixed, low, and sloggy framerate with VSYNC on. With it off, it's buttery smooth, but at a price: More bugs.
The dying randomly on a zero gravity land bug still seems to be present, and it's one of the worst. I mean, you guys still can't fix that?! Something tells me it was a weird anti-piracy measure that just happens randomly that the devs programmed in for s***s and giggles, but forgot to properly remove, I dunno, just a hunch. Guess it's just developer incompetence instead.
Some massive technical issues aside, great game.
I really love Dead Space and played it again and again on PS3. When I finally had a decent PC I wanted to play it again but I had to sell it again soon after. Why? Because the controls are terrible for me. Sure you can reconfigure the controls, but cursor keys, Enter and some others are locked and can't be remapped. I can't play using WASD, I always use the cursor keys to move, Enter to interact, R Shift to jump and so on. So not being able to configure the controls to my needs is an absolute No-Go.
This game has great story with dismemberment system. You have to destory enemies by destorying there limbs or you go nowhere.
The reason for the 4 stars and not 5 stars, is because this game has problems with modern hardware:
You will need to first found the "Dead Space.exe" and right click and select "Properties". Then you will need to select the following tick boxes, under the "Compatibilty" tab:
"Disable Full Screen Optimisations"
"Run this program as an administrator"
Then under the "Compatibility Mode"
tick the "Run this program in compatibility mode for:"
The after you select "Windows 7" in the drop down box selection.
Once you have done above, you then click on "Apply" and then "OK".
Then only can you run this game on modern system.
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