prepare for unseen consequences !!!!!
The name itself gives you a bit of a chill (at least for me)This is EA's new horror game which is a bit out of line for EA since they really haven't done any real horror before. I'm pretty sure some of you are like "Ugh! EA made it, it's probably going to be crap"
Well you are wrong. EA did a very fine job with this game.
WARNING! THIS NEXT SECTION IN BRACKETS CONTAINS SPOILERS!
[You take the roll of space engineer Isaac Clarke who is sent with a small security team to the USG Ishimura, a giant mining vessel that command has suddenly lost contact with. During docking you collide with an asteroid and therefore crash inside the ship. You quickly find something has gone horribly wrong as you find, literally, gallons of blood everywhere and corpses. (I should mention this game is incredibly gory and violent, with death animations having the aliens rip, bite, or smash your character into pieces)
Anyways you find the crew has been horribly mutated into these creatures called necomorphs and they attack and separate you from the rest of the crew and then begins you fight for survival.]
GRAPHICS:
The graphics are easily some of the best i've seen. Everything from the ship to the aliens and Isaac's suit look sharp. Another thing they added that increases the fear factor is lighting. There are many rooms that are dimly lit by failing lights, rooms that have light provided only by the giant planet the ship is orbiting around, and rooms with no lights at all.
AUDIO:
Amzing. The sound of Isaac as he stomps around is realistic, the screams of the necomorphs, and the sound of equipment humming also help boost the fear factor. The music is also well done making an even more morbid atmosphere.
GAMEPLAY:
The gameplay in DEAD SPACE is very good. An interesting feature is strategical dismemberment. Instead of having the classical headshot, doing that to the necomorphs would probably do nothing more than piss them off, you will have to take off key limbs to stay alive. If you shoot off one arm, it's no big deal for the necomorph, it will just bite your head off. Take out its legs and they will crawl towards you. The only way to kil these guys is to literally tear them limb from limb until here is nothing left for them to attack you with. Another cool feature is stasis which slows down an object for a while, be it a necomorph to rip apart at your leisure, or to stop a malfunctioning door. In the game there are also work benches that you can use to upgrade your weapons or you suit if you collect the proper parts.
SUMMARY: is a great game that is scary, intense, and loads of fun. One problem though, you will have trouble getting you parents to buy it because of its very high gore levels.