Great story, with really engaging chacarters and world. The combat can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be. The picto system can be used to customize your damage and abilities, like getting extra energy when you dodge, or a chance to set enemies on fire on attack. This with the charcters skills creates a rabbit whole of ways to build the chataracter. There is a great endgame if you really want to test your skill, and the parry/ counter system rewards unserstanding an enemies attack pattern and punishing it. It uses DLSS by default, but there is a way to play it at native resolution by selecting antialiasing in the menu. And with the implementation of nvidia low latency mode the game feels responsive and nice. Playing on a 9800x3d with a 4080 super yields about 100 fps at 1440p, with high settings on native. I should also mention the New Game plus feature is great, and with over 100 hours on other platforms behind me I can safely say I really enjoyed the game.
Has an option to disable motion blur, but no option to disable depth of field, chromatic aberration, or bloom. All locked to a option in post processing that you cant completely turn off. As someone who gets headaches from looking at objects that are out of focus, this is a non starter for me.
Gameplay loop is incredibly addictive, but sometimes situations are inherently unwinnable. Unlike something like FTL where I feel my poor choices led to my demise, watching a boss refill its health bar in front of me does not leave me feeling like I had a chance at all
Initially, you'll need to do a bit of tweaking with this game, The best way to play this is use a controller and crank the mouse sensitivity to max (Otherwise your controller will have a massive deadzone). From there, disable in game v-sync and use your video card or another program to enable v-sync seperatley. Once that's out of the way, you'll be drawn into the visceral world of Dead Space. Rip enemies limb from limb and be immersed in one of the first games that uses a seamless hud that is linked to the character. Aboard the USG Ishimura you'll explore a variety of different locations inside the ship and out. Engineer Isaac Clarke will be tasked with different physics puzzles to move forward on his journey. Not to mention hordes of Necromorphs!
I haven't had a chance to actually play the game. I was very excited to play this game and get it running on my computer but the game had other plans. Upon installation the game crashed on startup. I went to the forums to find that this is a common issues, and reinstalling some files was all that was necessary to get the game running. I first found that several .dll files were missing from direct X which should have been a simple fix. After further investigation I found some versions of Windows 7 had issue with this game and it was suggested that reformatting the computer would help resolve this. This was not the case, I've reinstalled all the service packs and missing .dll's to no avail it still crashes. If your game runs fine when you start it up congratulations I'm sure you'll have a good time but if you find yourself like me with issues then it becomes too much of hassle to resolve. Hopefully a future update will resolve my issues.
