When I installed this game, I knew its gonna rock my world
"Astonishing visuals, Creepy atmosphere, well acted voices, Dismemberment of enemies adds a new (challenging) combat strategy, Variety of interesting weapons, Great Level Design, Various types of enemies."
What didn't make it perfect: (This was sorted out in Dead Space 2)
"Mouse Sensitivity somehow is confusing, which sometimes results in slow Camera movement and hard aiming, story comes from a slow start, Upgrading equipment requires too much."
In Dead Space, you take the Role of Isaac, an engineer who is sent on a routine mission to fix some technical flows on a Space station known as the Ishimura, your team responds to the distress calls, but later you find out that the Station was infected with some sort of an Alien infestation, Isaac and his team must find there way out after there transport vessel has been destroyed by aliens.
Dead Space successfully manages to deliver a creepy cold environment to the players, you would spend most of your time on the edge of your seat. the creators were professional in setting traps and surprises that will give you chills, Plus the Dynamic Music is a pretty neat touch, when you get spotted by an enemy by surprise, the music changes in a creepy twisted way. the combat system is really nice, it's just shoot and move on, matter fact it's really challenging, you have to dismember the limbs of mutants in order to succeed in defeating your enemies. however, as I said, there a bunch of enemies, and each one has a certain weak point and special attacks, some of them are lethal "if you approach the nested Mutant, you will be decapitated immediately". Traps are well designed, you have to watch your steps between corpses not knowing which one will rise to get you. know that, every spot in the game is not safe, the mutants use the vents to move around, and ambush you, the AI was excellent.
The weapons are really weird and put up on a nice way, the Plasma gun serve's as the gun basic weapon, the Ripper/Line Gun/Contact Beam are really strange but Fun to shoot. the Ripper fires a fast moving circular blade, that you can control on a short range for some short time, it serves an ideal way to dismember enemies, Great for the Gore Fanatics. however, aiming these guns are not really easy, as I said before, the camera is somehow moves in a weird way, but if you have played Dark Sector/Resident Evil 4-5, you won't face a lot of difficulties moving the cursor. the upgrading of equipment in dead space however require a lot of resources. in other words, too many to upgrade and not much resources, pick your choices carefully.
the voices, were excellent, it couldn't get anymore realistic. Level Design was put up on a perfect as well, it almost comprehended every section a space Colony would have. zero gravity levels are Fun to play, and Vacuum levels are challenging. but the story develops really slowly, but it's ain't a cliche zombie story where the crew got infected from a virus, it's really interesting and you should check it out. the objectives of the game were repetitive/boring for many of us, specially for shooter fans, since Isaac is an engineer, most of the objectives are to fix the ship dead parts and sections.
The Game is intense, and you gotta go get it!
I recommend this to Adrenaline Junkies!