After completing the first 4 chapters out of I believe 12 it is safe to say I can write an impressions blog about dead space.

The game started me in control of a space marine(surprisingly did not have huge muscles), on the way to investigate a few problems with a large mineral drilling ship which is ironicly in space.  There are 4 commrades with me, but two of them are killed when teh ship I am in crash lands inside the big ship known as Ishamura.  The two remaining commrades instruct me with various objectives.  In teh first Chapter I had to clear a path and activate the tram system inside ship so I could get to other parts of the ships.  The subsiquint chapters have me going to a different part of the ship in order to retreive something or get some kind of system back online.  So far the story is ok.  Basically the ship was overrun with alien creatures that got into teh ship after the ship drilled into teh alien's planet.  There is a small emotional connection with the other two charecters, but I do not see the story being that great or playing out as a huge part of the game in the future.

The draw of the game for me anyway is the atmosphere it creates.  The ship is pretty creepy, and I was honestly startled a few times when playing.  Creatures tend to jump out when they are least expected to, which really creates an unknowing sense throughout the game.  The creatures themselves only come in a few different skins, and the shooting itself is a large part of the game but there is nothing magical about it.  The graphics are pretty damn good, and the enviorments inside the ship, although limited, are pretty creepy.

Overall game gets a solid 9.0 as of now

posatives:

-great atmosphere

-great graphics and tremendous sound effects

-Unrepetative gameplay

negatives:

-Game is too slow paced

-Aliens all look the same

-a lot of backtracking

recent game ratings:

Dead Space- 9.0

Motorstorm- 8.0

Boom Blox- 7.5