Dead Space™

Brutal death metal experience made manifest. A must play.

I purchased this game on sale a few years back when it was on sale. I've heard good things about it and I enjoy immersive single-player games with good stories so it wasn't a difficult choice. I spent the next 17 hours (in several sections) on a pants-soiling, anxiety inducing gameplay that I have not ever experienced in my lifetime. I've played many survival horror gems, like Resident Evil 0-4, Dino Crisis, the Thing, the Evil Within, etc. and Dead Space easily surpasses them all in terms of gameplay, sound, music, story, and atmosphere. You can tell the amount of effort that went into this game to make it as polished as possible and it has aged tremendously well in that regard; I actually bought a used physical copy for my Xbox to play it on my tv on a bigger screen and play it once a year to relive that nightmarish horror. I've yet to find a game that I replay that often. All in all, to keep it short, (I could write a novel on how much I've enjoyed this game and the lore behind it) this is truly a phenomenal game that I will never get tired of replaying.

Imagine you are an average Joe called Isaac Clarke with a degree in engineering, working in space maintaining and repairing things. Awesome enough, right? When things take a turn to the wrong and everything comes to a screeching halt, an engineer has to do what an engineer has to do. If that includes getting rid of unwanted growth to get the ship back to working, so be it. I played it first on PS3 and was immersed in the dark and moody atmosphere of the U.S.G. Ishimura. Even when the first few minutes are relatively calm to set up the story and scenery, things go bad quickly and you learn very fast, that something has gone horrifyingly bad on the Ishimura. Instead of repairing machinery, you now face terrifying nightmares and fend them off to maintain your health. And you learn quite fast that the best way to do so is to render them apart. The hidden humor in this problem is that in order to fix it, you have to slap it hard enough. The graphics have aged well for the age of 14 years, the sounds will make a shiver crawl up your spine at times and the writing, oh yes the writing. You will take a glance into the abyss of human corruption. With a church full of corruption, with human minds slowly being corrupted by an alien artifact and the bodily corruption on full display in front of you, twisting and turning the human body into wicked, necrotic forms for killing, spreading the nightmare from corpse to corpse. If you die in this game, you will not simply drop dead into a puddle of blood, no, no, no... You will do so in most spectacular ways. This game will take you and plunge you into an atmosphere of dread, suspiscion and body horror. Very few games manage to do that these days, so go ahead and buy it, even more so if it's on sale. It will be your loss for not having this experience at least once.

If you really enjoyed resident evil 4 this game is for you. You will experience an excellent combat loop

Game is amazing when it comes to it dark graphics it almost looks better than most current gen horror games. Game was so good they had to make a remaster which is hard to tell apart from it orginal.