Posted on: July 17, 2016

randomuser.833

Games: Reviews: 7

No Horror, no Survival, bad controls

Survival Horror without survival and horror and bad controls The look of Dead Space is a very good one and that all HUD-elements are build into the world is a very nice idea. Together with a world that works it could be a very good game. Sadly the controls are just slow with mouse and keyboard. At the end you will have to fight while being shaken. Get yourself a weapon with continous fire as a third one or you will scream in frustration because mouse controls are so slow. Beside that the game is missing any survival aspect. I was only using the standard Plasmacutter weapon just testing out new found weapons and I was playing on medium. Around mid of the game I was starting selling healthpacks and ammo for my main weapon because my inventory and my bank where flooded with that stuff. Just keep the eyes open and their won't be any shortage of anything. And now just think about Resident Evil with enough healing plants to throw them away because you got more then enough. While many people claimed being terrified by the game I have to say, I was not. Shure some jumpscares got me for a short moment, but even while playing the game late at night in a dark room with headphones and a very good sound - nothing. The enemys where never a real danger and as said, I had plenty of ammo and healthpacks. What should I fear with 4 Weapons, plenty of ammo and healthpacks? Being attacked? No.. Playing with eyes and mind open you will be able to read the game after a short time. And then it starts. Walking through the room while knowing where the next enemy will appear and you already target the position shoothing him the moment he appears. Even if you have to walk backwards to activate the trigger. In most situations you will know when and from where they come. And as a last disclaimer. I started to play Resident Evil 1 but never played through it. I played the first Alone in the Darks a few hours but never finished and thats all my experience with Survival Horror.

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Posted on: March 28, 2021

RAIDOU27

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Games: 195 Reviews: 17

Better than the sequels.

I already had a physical copy of this on PC before and still bought it on GOG. By far, the first game is better than the third and the second game. This is classic survival horror and it hits a lot of the correct formula on it genre. Its an old game at this time but the graphics will still not disappoint an new player of this game.

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Posted on: November 9, 2022

KirbyDaDragon

Games: 401 Reviews: 3

A Solid Horror-Action Shooter.

Had a good time with the game all the way through, the world is ridiculously well though out and I appreciated all the effort that was put into the game visually. This game has a style that is very distinctly Dead Space, from the design of your armour to the weapons you use. You are not a soldier or some sort of hero in deadspace, you are simply an engineer that gets sent on a repair mission aboard a ship known as the Ishimura, but that repair mission soon turns into a desperate fight for survival as you realize there was a lot more going on in that ship then you were initially led to believe, spooky antics ensue. Thus your weaponry is not traditional shooty shoot rifles, they are engineering tools, a plasma cutter for remotely cutting wires, a stasis module for slowing down dangerous machinery, a kinesis module attached to your arm to lift heavy things, just so happens these engineering tools also make decent weapons ;) Highly recommend you give this one a go. also Deadspace 2 on GOG when? T-T Before you play the game: Cap the game to 60fps externally, and turn on vsync through your graphics card's settings, not in game because the internal implementation of vsync is very wonky. The reason you should do this is that the physics of this game break above 60 frames due to the strange decisions to tie the games physics to your framerate, this was a common things in ps3/xbox360 era games because they didn't forsee people running games at the framerates many modern pc's run games at now. Do this and your experience will be pretty smooth! (with occasional but not severly detriment visual bugs from time to time)

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Posted on: December 4, 2022

WhistyTak

Verified owner

Games: 132 Reviews: 1

Amazing game! (easy glitch fix)

First of all I want to say that I really love this game. I played it when it first came out on 360 and I remember it as one of the best games of its generation. I recently played it again after buying it on GOG and it was just as good as I remember! Its a must play. Glitch (trying to avoid any spoiler descriptions): After running into it, I looked it up and found an easy fix. If you have v synch turned off, in Chapter 8 there is a boss type battle where it will crash every time. Simply turn vsynch on for this scene and it will be fixed. The game did crash on me a couple times. I wonder if "vsynch on" would prevent said crashes. Anyways the game is amazing so its worth whatever minor glitches it may have for some people.

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Posted on: October 11, 2024

rosumek

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Games: 149 Reviews: 26

Is it worth in 2024?

More than telling another opinion about the game, I can tell you why would you bother with this version instead of the remake. Well, basically because you can grab it on a sale by less than 20% the hefty price of the new shiny one. The original still holds up pretty well graphics- and gameplay-wise. It's not nostalgia googles because it was my first time, and I didn't feel like playing an "old game" at all. Sure, in a vaccum, the remake is superior, but some of its improvements seem to me barely relevant. For instance, the fact that you may move freely back and forth between decks, while the original is strictly linear. Well, unless they changed a lot of the gameplay, there is no reason at all to backtrack after you finished the objetives of a given level. Also, in the original enemies don't respawn: their placement is procedural, but the appearances are stricly scripted, not based on timers or free movement. In the remake they apparently respawn, and if this is good or bad depends on the implementation and your personal taste. If you prefer to save your money, mind that you MUST tweak the game for it to work. But it's simpler tham it seems, follow what you find in the pcgamingwiki page and you'll be fine. What worked for me was playing in full screen (Borderless Gaming made my game stutter), tweaking gamma in the config files to avoid game too bright, forcing anti-aliasing, Vsync and FPS limit with Nvidia profile inspector (you MUST enable Vsync even when borderless, otherwise it will break some scripts), Dead Space Mouse Fix and Widescreen Fix at 0.2. And now my two cents of opinion about the game itself: cool game to play once, but not my preferred style. Too linear, scripted, noisy, full of jump scares and cheesy horror tropes that spoil the atmosphere. Didn't get vere excited about DS 2, since people say that focus even more on action. I prefer something slower and more open as System Shock, but Dead Space is shorter and still worth a run.

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