Comments on: Dead Space: Dead In the Water?

By: sera

sera — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:49:58 +0000

I like to own my games, not rent them EA.

EA you have forever lost sales for your stupidity and are quickly becoming a joke. Keep this pace up and you will be left4dead.

By: redrain85

redrain85 — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:40:40 +0000

Edge says that Dead Space sold 470,000 copies across all three platforms in the U.S in its first month. Reviews Liven Up Dead Space Sales Sales are so-so, then. Shame.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:46:09 +0000

Just finished it. Overall: superb.

By: redrain85

redrain85 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:04:35 +0000

Uh oh. Here comes the attack of the crappy DLC. Dead Space DLC ~~Horse~~ Space armor FTW!

By: Cradok

Cradok — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:12:14 +0000

I’m on chapter 10 of 12, and the game is still keeping me off balance, still surprising me. I love it.

By: maxmcg

maxmcg — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:51:30 +0000

I loved, loved Dead Space. I had Far Cry 2 bought at the time as well.

It was Dead Space that had me hooked for the entire weekend though. Couldn’t stop playing it.

By: Solario

Solario — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:26:59 +0000

I still say it’s a Unitology conspiracy, because of the game’s negative depiction of Scien-.. Unitology.

By: Rain

Rain — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 11:42:39 +0000

@DigitalSignalX

It’s not a problem with antialiasing in general its just an issue with Dead Space cause that is not antialiasing that they apply there. Thats just a blur-filter they use that’s also why it isn’t limited to the edges.

By: sinister agent

sinister agent — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 08:32:57 +0000

What gets me is this happens EVERY year. There’s a massive landslide of generally good to excellent games, and most people just can’t afford to buy them all (ESPECIALLY in our current economic climate). Of course, the suits take a look at the sales figures and nothing else, and declare the genre dead because it didn’t sell in droves.

Short story: the pre-Christmas period is not necessarily the best time of year to sell your game.

This. Oh god, this. It’s bloody ridiculous. At the very least, you’d think someone would try releasing a big budget game early in the year, then re-releasing it for a tenner less around now – that way you’d have a big release out without all the competition, and when the competition did come, you’d cost significantly less, and the game would have a wider reputation.

By: sinister agent

sinister agent — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 08:26:51 +0000

I’ve played it on the 360, and in short, as a horror it’s utterly terrible, but as an FPS it’s an unremarkable, but fun way to pass a few hours. It has some neat touches (particularly the weapons, which apart from the assault rifle are neatly varied and help set the game aside from the usual pistol-shotgun-sniper set), and some lousy ones (particularly the total lack of character or suspense and the clunky, slow and awkward controls), leaving it nestling around the ’slightly above average’ mark. 80% would be generous.

Worth a look come the budget release, I’d say, but still not a front runner even then, unless you’re really desperate for an FPS. Which nobody is.

By: SuperNashwan

SuperNashwan — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 08:01:03 +0000

I found the controls not quite unplayable but bad enough that I, err, won’t be playing it what with the current glut of good games. The graphics engine seems superb, the sound design possibly better than anything before it, so it’s all the more jarring that the PC controls seem to have been programmed by someone who’s only ever played on a console. Never mind the vsync bug, there’s no autorun toggle, the interface controls have separate bindings to your WASD for no reason and it takes literally, without exaggeration, over a metre of desk space movement to turn the guy around with the mouse on max sensitivity. You can apparently change a settings.txt somewhere in your hidden Local Settings folder to get higher sensitivity than the slider allows for, but man, I can’t believe it got through QA like this. Is it really that hard to realise a mouse is more accurate than the ham-fisted analogue sticks on console pads?

By: Trithemius

Trithemius — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:41:35 +0000

I find it fun and even a wee bit scary. However I’m not really enamoured of “boss fights” (I tend to find them repetitive since I die until I adapt to the first change, then die until I adapt to the second change, then die unti I… you get the drift) and Fallout 3 has loomed large. Fun and scary though DeadSpace is it cannot really stack up to Fallout 3 for me.