Is Dead Space Really That Creepy ?

I haven't played the first one yet but seeing this Dead Space 2 monsters makes me sick !!

It's freaky as hell !! Man I'm scared now..

Via Game Informer

haha yeah, it's pretty messed up, the necromorph's are some of the strangest enemies I've ever faced in any video game. However, it's a lot of fun to shoot off their limbs in low gravity haha see arms and legs floating around, it's awesome. I recommend you check out the first Dead Space before you play the second.

they are creepy but that's about it

No, and I tea bagged them for awesome necrophilia bonus points.JigglyWiggly_

There's not much that gives me a shiver down the spine but that game managed it more than once.

I love games with such amazing atmosphere, they really suck you in.

So don't be a scardy puss, get playing it now.

I can only play this game for an hour at a time it freaks me the hell out! the sound is so well done, and when i hear something skitter around in the back ground i hate it!

I haven't played the first one yet but seeing this Dead Space 2 monsters makes me sick !!

It's freaky as hell !! Man I'm scared now..

Via Game Informer

NoctisCaelum52

Not really. The whole game is a collection of cheap thrills . You walk down a corridor, all quiet, and all of a sudden BAM monster comes out music gets loud. Doesn't sound bad but that happens every two minutes. It's not scary if you expect it.

It is scary most of the game and you will jump out of your seat. You can get used to some of the part but you will be in for an intense thrill ride throughout the whole game. There are very little safe zones and the game really doesn't feel like it has safe zones at all. This will change in part 2 (Game Informer source) as they said they will space the action more and give you moments where you feel more powerful against enemies.

In the playthroughs I had with Dead Space I personally never discovered anything creepy or scary for the matter, rather I laughed quite often.

Honestly, I found the necromorph babies kind of disturbing.

Not really for the first hour or 2 but after a while you'll get used to it. In fact you may even find yourself looking FOR them not the other way around.

The game is more gross then scary.

I actually didn't find it very scary it all. I play with the speakers turned up and with the lights off, and it still does not scare me. One of my firends can barly get past it for some reason.

In the playthroughs I had with Dead Space I personally never discovered anything creepy or scary for the matter, rather I laughed quite often.

OoSuperMarioO

key word is creepy .. which it definately is .. as oppossed to being scary per say .. and can be argued that games can never be scary .. alright maybe .. but you can't deny creep factor .. and dead space has it in spades

my game of the year for 2008

Ya man, Dead Space is MAD creepy and edgy. I'm surprised that a small minority of gamers disagree, but clearly this matter of perspective is rooted in personal opinion. Nobody can be wrong or right on this issue, some things I find scary aren't scary to others. My only beef with Dead Space is the limited number of different enemies. They really should have created more types of necromorphs. I've got no problem with many of the standards necromorphs having the same gameplay charateristics, but why not have varying character models? The standard necromorphs are physically identical. You'd expect SOME variation, no? Different colors, different limb proportions, etc... Ah well.

Different colors, different limb proportions, etc... Ah well.

kraychik

Not really. The whole game is a collection of cheap thrills . You walk down a corridor, all quiet, and all of a sudden BAM monster comes out music gets loud. Doesn't sound bad but that happens every two minutes. It's not scary if you expect it.

Revan_911

The game is more gross then scary.

I actually didn't find it very scary it all. I play with the speakers turned up and with the lights off, and it still does not scare me. One of my firends can barly get past it for some reason.

JangoWuzHere

I more or less agree with this comment. I consider scary and creepy to be completely different things. The game is not particularly creepy - I find the atmosphere far too mechanical for the game to be truly creepy, and there's really no sense of impending doom. It really depends on shock thrills, whereby monsters suddenly jump out at you to scare you. It is scary for the first couple of hours, until you have gotten used to the ugly mothers jumping out at you every couple of minutes. Reminds one of Doom 3 really.

Note I played DS on the PS3, not PC because of the product activation.

This looks creepy...First one wasn't much

Most of these people who say it isn't scary don't get scared when playing video games, so there's little point in heeding them. Horror movies don't bother me much (I actually like them, generally) but scary games can really freak me out. Getting through RE4 was an exercise in masochism for me, and even then I could only play with a friend in the room, lol. Call flickering lights and surprise attacks cheap thrills or whatever, but they work every time.. Now, while I do get scared, I'm rarely disturbed, and I don't think anything in Dead Space would have truly disturbed me. I think some people in this thread are mixing up the two emotions. ''Scared' is the "OMG he's just behind me! Ahhh! Where did it go?! It's gonna get me!" while 'disturbed' is when you're scared to go to the bathroom alone later that night.jedinat

There is definitely a difference for me too, watching films I fell like nothing more than a voyeur whose got nothing to do with what I'm witnessing, it's different with games as the interaction drags me inside the situation and the things that happen have genuine consequences. This is why i sometimes get the cold shudders.

Another reaction I get in games that I don't in movies is my dislike of heights kicks in, if i move my character close to a large drop I actually get the reaction I do in real life.

Which is a real sense of unease and an instinctive desire to move the fk away from the edge8)

I can't say games ever actually frighten me but they do creep me out occasionally and especially startle me at times.

It had some decent scares. But not so much from the monsters as from the wonky controls which made it harder to survive. It borrowed many concepts from the Resident Evil series.

It isnt scary but it is atmosferic.

It isnt scary but it is atmosferic.

nikola96

on of the best horror games ever incredible graphics and breath taking sound effects .

on of the best horror games ever incredible graphics and breath taking sound effects .

hamoksha0000

It's really really nerve racking if you play in the right settings (LIGHTS OFF!!!!). But you should play it no matter how much of a wuss you are, you won't regret it once you finish the game.

It's really really nerve racking if you play in the right settings (LIGHTS OFF!!!!). But you should play it no matter how much of a wuss you are, you won't regret it once you finish the game.

adv_tr00per

It isnt scary but it is atmosferic.

nikola96