Dead Space™

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)

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.

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.

While I wouldn't call this game "survival" horror, it's definately a great horror title, which was rare for those days. After Resident Evil 4 killed the survival horror genre, everybody was trying to get themselves some of those sweet sweet action horror shekels. EA is no exception. But Visceral did a great job before EA butchered them. Dead Space 2 world be nice too if EA plays nice with CD Projekt and GOG. They could make some good monies and you won't have to resort to downloading that God forsaken EA app. So send EA a message and buy this game on GOG. Maybe we will get the other two titles in the future.

Dead Space was the first video game I ever wanted to play when I was younger. I never actually bought the game though and forgot about it. Saw it on sale not long ago and jumped on it. If you've never played it before, don't let its age detur you. It's gameplay has aged well in my opinion, its visuals are somewhat outdated but not to the point of being distracting, it is loads of fun and really draws you in. Did I mention it's scary? Yeah, it's like a 10 hour survival gauntlet and by the end of it you feel like you actually spent the most stressful night of your life on the USG Ishimura. I'd put this game in my top three recommendations to anyone, any day. Play the game. Make us whole.