By Alec Meer on April 27th, 2009 at 9:23 pm.
I’d love to sit in on a game-name brainstorming meeting some time. Like The Thing, But in Space? “Nah, too prosaic.” DoomShock? “Might be true, but we don’t really want to get sued, do we?” Stampy Guy In A Funky Welding Mask vs Horrible Flesh Beasts From The Stars? “That’s far too exciting. Can you make it blander? Y’know, like really bland – so bland that people forget its name the second they hear it, and forever refer to it as ‘thingy, the brown one with the guy in the funny hat?’” How about Dead Space? “I’ve forgotten it already! Bingo!”
The odds were against poor Dead Space from the start. That said, the popular misconception is that this spooky FPS-but-with-more-shoulder shooter didn’t do terribly well. This affords it an underdog status, and the devoted, word-spreading fans that accords. The reason I’ve been playing it recently is, in fact, an impassioned monologue by an oft similarly-opinioned friend as to how great it was.
I’d been resistant because it had seemed so bland from afar. Despite such devout defenders, the truth is it did okay – just not as well as the glut of really heavy hitters released in the Winter of 2008. With this and Mirror’s Edge, EA gambled on new IPs standing out amidst a crowd of big-name sequels, and it was foolish. It had worked the previous year with 2K’s Bioshock, but that enjoyed a rare double-whammy of intense hype from a System Shock/Deus Ex-reared hardcore and the anticipation of great-looking zombie-splatting from the mainstream. Dead Space went it alone, despite attempts to get the ball rolling early with an overly-functional comic/animated series prequel.
So, it sold okay, but it got lost. Even aside from the sales issue, a month like this is a far smarter time to wade into Dead Space. It’s quiet enough to sink into it, rather than snatch a quick play while half my brain is wondering about a crateload of other shooters.
My fundamental impression of Dead Space is that it’s significantly better than I’d been expecting, having previously caught of few minutes of watching friends control its plodding protagonist as instantly forgettable dialogue was spouted by conveniently-located audiologs. It is, to sheepishly blow the cobwebs off one of the oldest of critical clichés, far more than the sum of its parts. It employs every contrived trick in the book, from the aforementioned audiologs, to progression based almost entirely on Locked Door Syndrome, to vending machines that inexplicably sell incredibly powerful weapons to workers on a research station, to checkpoint-based saves, to pop-from-the-closet monsters, to indestructible glass keeping you from offing the baddie there and then… Y’know, the works. Everything we’ve ever moaned at an action game for is in there.
Despite pre-release mutterings of a possible System Shock heritage, really it’s Resident Evil in space – for all the satisfyingly meaty combat, its challenges are archaic and artificial, machine-cold obstacles upon our basic forward motion that we’ve struggled past time and time again over the last 20 years. No doubt this is the kind of statement that will prompt some to accuse me of naïvety or presumption, but the impression is that every potential obstacle and occurence has been implemented with the least possible consideration. Just do the obvious thing, because that’s what people expect. This, it seems to me, is a game that is highly, highly technical accomplished (I’ll get to why and how very shortly), but seems creatively defunct. The hokey, plodding meat-and-two-veg plotline and the over-familiar desaturated palette hint at this, while the backtracking and arbitrarily unlocking doors that characterise the level design positively hammer it home.
And yet it works – because making a game technically watertight at the expense of the flowery, enticing, adventurous Other we call for in most of the games we froth about really can be enough. It’s in your sensory connection to Dead Space’s world – the tangible punch of the weapons when their projectiles hit mutant flesh, the screen-shaking thump when you stomp your rock-heavy foot onto a crate or demonically-distorted skull, and most of all in the sluggish, disorientated trudge through zero-G and/or zero-oxygen sections.
There is something almost physical about the way hero Isaac Clarke controls – not quite natural, but a sense of a direct, puppet-like connection to your mouse and keyboard. His movement, and the unusual close-to-the-shoulder camera positioning, has proven hateful to some – initially I too loathed it, but something clicked about half an hour in, and it began to feel spectacularly there. (A possible helping hand to those disagreeing – don’t turn on V-sync in the game’s options, as it adds a strange extra sluggishness. If you experience screen-tearing as a result of turning v-sync off, force it on in your graphics card’s drivers instead and everything’s a-okay).
The other pillar of this remarkable connection to the otherwise entirely characterless Isaac is the user interface. The HUD isn’t a bunch of numbers and icons pasted neatly onto the corners of the screen – it’s made entirely of in-universe elements Isaac himself sees. Health is monitored by lighted tubes along his spine, his guns project an ammo counter above the barrel, and the endless, tedious exposition of his assistants and nemesises (nemesi?) is beamed just in front of him from his suit, their images shrinking and skewing as his head and body move.
Other games have attempted similar, but there’s something especially slick and complete about Dead Space’s take on it – and it means every inch of screen space shows the game, not the game’s menus. Again, it’s that strangely substantial connection to Isaac – not on any personal level, but the sense that you’re directly controlling him, not a floating cursor.
Two space parasite-infected thumbs up, too, for the sound design – a constant series of background industrial and bestial noises that make the rather plain setting and foes genuinely unsettling. The single spaceship most of the game is set upon may consist of similar, narrow corridors, many of which you have to retread multiple times, but thanks to the subtle ambient sound it feels like a vessel in distress, ready to sunder at any moment.
Dead Space is a technical triumph – a collection of rock-solid systems only slightly betrayed by a stinging obviousness to how the thing actually plays. We do so often cry for creativity and innovation, but what’s less often documented is a game’s feel, how it responds to you and you respond to it on levels other than the cerebral. Dead Space does very little to engage the brain, but it treats the senses with the utmost respect. That it failed to reach a truly massive audience can hardly be said to be a tragedy, but it certainly stands tall as one of the last six months’ more pleasing ways to fire a gun at something’s face.
This is pretty close to how I felt about it. Played it, had an enjoyable (if diminishingly so) time. Was impressed at the talents of the sound and visual artists involved, rolled my eyes at the attempts of the writers involved.
Read some glowing reviews which praised the aesthetics and fun moments of zero-g/vacuum level design, agreed. Read some reviews which panned it for its total lack of imagination and seeming drive towards blandness, agreed.
Strange game in that I agreed with its harshest critics, yet found it satisfying. Of course, I haven’t touched it or really thought about it since, which gives an idea of the sort of cotton-candy satisfaction that it was.
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For once I actually find myself in complete agreement with you Mr. Meer. I’d personally thought some of the obstacles the game threw out were quite inventive, but now thinking back on it, aside from an extra dimension added by the zero-g and extremely competent implementation, it admittedly didn’t do much new. Moving blocks, carefully timed runs… all old staples of the action genre, but given context and physicality.
Along with how heavy the game feels (in a good way, though I played on the PS3 so didn’t get the odd laggy mouse movement) the sound design is probably the most cohesive part of this game, just magnificent stuff.
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I still havent bought this game despite its good reviews, as i dont see alot of longevity in it despite its fun mechanics.
I’ll probly pick it up 1 day…
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I’ve always heard that the controls on the PC were too sluggish for this to be enjoyable. The lack of a demo on PC meant I was never able to see for myself, so I simply let it pass. After reading this, it may be worth bargain-bin diving for it to see if I have the same experience.
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I try to recommend this game as often as possible when chatting with friends about PC games. In my opinion, it’s what Doom 3 should have been like and the first game since System Shock 2 that had me frozen before a corner because of the horrors that would await me around it.
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Personally, I liked the level of detail and atmosphere in the game, though you are required to revisit the same place over and over.
Gameplay wise this is 100% like RE4, which is not a bad thing, just not inventive enough.
I did found the main gun to be incredibly overpowered, specially if you ignored the other weapons and used all your money upgrading it.
Also, I hated the way each and every single enemy came out of an air shaft, what’s up with that?
The story sucked big time though, I didn’t like the way “aliens” worked in the plot.
Do you remember the game “The Thing”? That game was awesome!
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I got the feeling the simple, obvious goals weren’t a result of incompetance, but a deliberate design brief to do absolutely nothing that would confuse anyone, just as a Hollywood action movie is deliberately simple. It is Aliens to System Shock’s Alien, if you like – the scares are all gross outs or leaping monsters or LOUD NOISES.
While it is often not useful to directly compare games to films, this one seems to deliberately ape the rhythms, style and goals of action/horror films – specifically the bit in Aliens when the marines first enter the settlement.
It comes over as dumb to us gaming pseuds, but it is utterly succesful at its aims.
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Although I haven’t gotten around to completing it, I think Dead Space is a very accomplished game. True, it isn’t a genre classic, but I think the EA really screwed up really is when they did. If it was released now then it would do much better sales wise.
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Dead Space took every single good idea from the past 5 or 6 years or shooters and implemented them perfectly which is why I loved it. On a technical level I couldn’t fault it. So often new features don’t work. it’s plain to see what the designers were trying to do but they hadn’t quite cracked the nut on it, Deadspace picks up where they left off and implement their idea with absolute perfect and leave everything with a thick layer of gloss too.
The story is old, the setting is old, the enemies are old but the implementation is perfect. For someone who had never played SS2, Doom3, The Thing or any other other raft of games it steals from, it’ll actually probably be the single greatest experience of their life because the innovations won’t be spoilt by the sloppy design.
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I’ve decided to head back into the game myself, after running into the ancillary media (the anime is available on Netflix watch instantly in the US) over the last few weeks, and being impressed with just how effectively the universe was presented for this project through games, comics, and video.
The game is a pastiche, no doubt about it. But it’s a good one, and I’m thinking it deserves more love than it got initially.
There’s some awareness of it as a brand out there, and I honestly wouldn’t be surprised to see a sequel, although EA has missed good opportunities before.
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Nemeses.
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The savepoints break my inmersion totally. Consoles still lack a harddisk to save games?
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They released a demo for PS3 and Xbox360, but there’s no PC demo. So if they can’t be bothered to put out a demo for PC, I can’t be bothered to see if the game is worth playing or not :P.
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I just took a survey from EA about this game, as I had registered it, and from some of the questions, I get the feeling that there is going to be a sequel. Enjoyable game, but every time I had to go get something, I knew that there was either going to be something waiting for me there, or I would be locked in and things would come in and try to dismember me for a change…
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One point you didn’t make in the comparison with Bioshock is that the release windows weren’t at all the same, despite being only two months different. Bioshock came at the end of the summer, with almost no competition at all for gamer attention or dollars; if anything, Bioshock tended to look better than it actually was, as a breath of fresh air following a typically summer launch season of vapidity. Dead Space by contrast landed two months later (well, a year and two months later, but that’s not what we’re talking about ;) ), at the very beginning of the extended Holiday launch window – with other much, much bigger titles bearing down on it.
What the heck was EA thinking?
Btw, yes, I can confirm that the PC controls work beautifully and are far superior to those of the console versions; Alec’s impression of the game’s physicality is spot on. The control problem noted in so many reviews is due to the game’s implementation of vsync, but reviewers apparently couldn’t be bothered to try turning off vsync. I’m not suggesting that reviewers should be fielding tech support for every new title, but it’s pretty striking that so many ostensibly “PC” reviewers these days don’t even know enough to test vsync, long one of the bugbears of PC game performance/usability.
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I didn’t really like Dead Space much at all myself (to the point where I’ve snarkily called it Dead Pace every so often), though on reflection I think that might not so much be the game as me expecting more a blend of System Shock and F.E.A.R. rather than the Resident Evil in Space that it turned out to be.
It’s kindof strange because I wanted to like it – I love how the UI is included in the game, I love how they’ve atmospherically contained everything within the setting. I expected something that’d spook – or atleast unsettle – me though, and Dead Space utterly failed in that regard. Big dangerous enemies were more annoying than scary, and the point where the game officially lost me was when the enemies-out-of-grates thing had become so predictable as I found myself laughing at enemies doing their startling apperance by jumping straight into waiting crosshairs.
I think my problem, as such, with Dead Space can largely be defined as this unshakeable feeling that for atmosphere, Dead Space really wanted to be F.E.A.R. – and it does seem to send the odd loving glance that way (notably at the very end), but most of the time it seems to consider that ambition beyond it and simply settle for being Resident Evil.
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Precisely how I felt about Bioshock. A bland flavor with a disappointing aftertaste, but carrying a subtle, unique, and enticing aroma.
Plus, I let Bioshock mature for a year before giving it a taste, so I wasn’t quite as affected by the hype (actually, I had to let the adverse reaction to the hype wear off before I gave in). I’ll do the same for Dead Space, even if by all accounts it seems not worth it.
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My love for Dead Space is already
wellknown. As for the weakness of the story, after speaking to Antony Johnston at Thought Bubble last year, I got the impression that the backstory was crowbarred in. Apparently they had to push just to get that one audio log from Braham in the game. However, should a sequel ever happen (nudge nudge wink wink) they’d tie gameplay and story together from the start.report
Dead Space is amazing. The atmosphere and sound makes the game incredibly immersive and the difficulty is incredibly well-tuned.
You never get killed unfairly and it encourages you to break out your “panic” weapons when it hits the fan. The game never lets you coast by: it always encourages you to focus in order to succeed.
For single player games I usually play a little, get tired of it, come back, etc, but for Dead Space I played at every available opportunity until I had beaten it.
On top of that, the thing is rock solid. Good performance, no crashes, no usability issues. It’s like someone actually cared how well it ran on a PC.
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“…to sit in on a game-name brainstorming meeting…”
It’s way more painful and drawn out than you think. It’s like giving birth to a child, with your mind.
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Thoroughly enjoyed Dead Space myself.
You’re completely right when you say you felt connected with Isaac. That game really, REALLY, put you in that world in a way that most imo fail. And i think it was that connection that held it together for me.
As soon as i feel disconnected from a game i loose interest in it. That part of the reason I generally don’t enjoy RTS games – that top down view leaves me feeling alienated and uncompelled. I like to feel like i’m in the world and DS nailed it perfectly.
And it did have it’s fun moments. Like when Mr Mad Scientist dude starts laughing in your face then give himself up to be infected. You pop out and kill the beastie infecting him before he transforms. Enjoyed that.
But it’s characters did lack… character. If the story line had been as compelling as System Shocks it world have been massive. And easily would have given Bioshock a run for its money.
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For a game in the survival horror genre I was expecting to be asked to do some pretty amazing things, you know everyman stuck in an amazing situation.
What I found was myself being asked to some pretty menial tasks by someone sitting in a nice comfy room instead. “This is broken Issac, you need to go fix it.” “Issac if you don’t go repair this we might die, but take your time theres no actual rush it just needs fixed.”
Great im a space workman and the game treats you like one. The enemies are so instantly forgettable aswell theres not a single memorable enemy, ask someone thats played say RE4 what they thought about the Regenerators and Iron Maidens and you’ll get a shudder of recognition. I don’t even remember what any of the enemies names were in Dead Space, or even what they were.
I can see why people really enjoyed it, it has amazing standards throughout but it just felt soul-less really. Maybe im just being overly harsh.
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Random fact: the black guy is voiced by the Emmissary from 300. He says one of the greatest lines of 2008 a few hours into the game. I liked him a lot…
I loved the ending section, the sense of despair, bleakness and “that something’s wrong here, innit?” is amazing.
The story… or better said the backstory made me think a lot at everything that happened after I finished the game. It’s not a “in your face” story like in… uh, many other games (has anyone ever wondered wtf was going on in Resident Evil 4?), it’s just a bunch of very subtle details and hints, like in HL2. They have a formidable universe waiting to be explored!
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Confession time: I played this through in a single session, lasting nearly 23 hours. I was sucked in like no other game in a long time.
Things that worked included sounds from machinery that sounded like it could be a baddie that wasn’t. It kept me off-guard just enough to make the jump moments that much better.
Things that didn’t work included the incredibly weak story of the main character and his girlfriend on the ship (you see holos of her starting with the very beginning of the game).
Sadly, the replayability was a bit weak, because it was so linear, but some moments were so enjoyable (zero-g in particular) it was fun to replay once.
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I sincerely love Dead Space, I agree with cHeal in that it did nothing new, but everything it tried was well implemented. Admittedly you could paste an Umbrella logo on the side of the spaceship and brand it as a Resi knock off, but I enjoyed this much more than the fifth game in that particular series.
It’s definitely the sense of place that sells it, from the in-game hud to the clunky boots to the Aliens inspired ship. This game actually made me a little scared to play it, which I found remarkable after feeling burned out on most horror titles.
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One of the problems that I had with Dead Space was the death sequences. Simply put, they were too long. While I’m all for the occasional “Crazy Chainsaw man hacks off your head while you watch” of RE 4 and 5, I don’t need nor want to see a sequence that protracted every time I get killed. Quite bluntly, it’s all right for me to topple over with a hole in my chest, or for my head to fly off, as long as it happens quickly. I don’t need to see every damned enemy face-fuck me to death in excruciating, twenty second sequences. Death is frustrating enough without having to sit through a protracted scene of my demise every time–and I’m a person who didn’t think the notorious Valkyrie sequence of Too Human to be asking too much from the player, considering you didn’t have to then sit through a loading screen or anything of the sort.
It was a well-implemented game, but one I ultimately lost interest in and sold back (because I played it on the X-box, because my computer is currently less game-powerful than my Xbox).
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The main point I find surprising I haven’t seen mentioned is the limb thing. Having completed this myself recently my main memory will always be the way it messes with my many years of FPS training to aim for the middle torso, or head if time allows. This actually caused head pains the first 3-4 hour session as my learned instinct fought with my recently acquired knowledge, my reticule sometimes flicking back and forth.
Other than that it was probably one of the better games of last year. Good atmosphere, weapon progression and with a good (as mentioned) connection with the avatar. Although I could never entirely by into the universe with the main displays in a place ol’ Isaac could never see without wing mirrors or putting his back out. Stomping was good though, enough that it was used when foolish, or unnecessary (die tentacle baby die, etc.).
The plot wasn’t bad, as such, but I wouldn’t praise the way it was introduced. And it seemed to combined pretty flat voice work with some fairly outstanding motion capture work, which was bit strange. And I enjoyed it’s flirtations with mainstream religion, before it shied sensibly away.
It’s release was well judged for the season (cold, empty) but not for the competition. If it gets a sequel, as has been suggested, it would have to really push some difference to pull me in. Boredom was settling in towards the end.
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A good take on Dead Space. I really hadn’t given much thought to why I like it. I guess I just put it up there with enjoyable fluff/action scifi. But the game does have a really solid feel to it, and the implementation of the HUD into the game world is quite enjoyable.
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what I liked that on hard (and later on impossible) it plays just like the difficulty said: hard or pretty impossible even if you got the enemy encounters memorized. when 4 necros swarm you, you can’t plan that ahead and it’s those moments where the “panic” weapon comes into play: for me it’s the secondary on the contact beam or the secondary on the rifle. the bigger necros will kill you in one slash, so impossible does pose a good challenge. pity though about the “learn the pattern” bossfights. those felt very poor to me.
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I love (loved?) this game! Seriously…
However I hated the controls, the key remapping was so damn limited (can I blame console porting for this?)! The game also crashed a whole helluva lot!
The worst thing for me was the game really offers no reason to replay it whatsoever. Honestly though, should I really fault it for that? Maybe in a couple years it’ll be distant enough in my memory to play it again.
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Seconding the ‘Forget what you’ve heard about laggy controls’ – that was a bug, and a very easily bypassed one, linked to the slightly weird way the game implemented Vsync and frame-buffering.
You just force Vsync off, and bobs your uncle – snappy, responsive controls – your reward for a total of five seconds effort.
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I did like Dead Space, but it was more unnerving than actually scary, since it was often quite predictable. It used the “corpse on the ground not really dead” trick almost every other corridor, for example. Oh, and of course gratings contain monsters. I admit I didn’t notice the locked-door/artificial-level-lengthening thing, but I’m not all that observant.
That said, it was a solid game, and the way it messed with your head towards the end was neat.
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pillxthrills: We’d believe you. You should have seen our ones for naming the site.
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I played the demo and I didn’t know which was more monstrous: the lumbering controls or the poor things I was dismembering.
I took it off my lovefilm rental list; I might just put it back on.
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Yeah, I pretty much agree all around here, except that I did pick it up day one and start playing pretty much immediately. It’s a visceral sort of game, and I found it almost entirely enjoyable, aside from a couple of kind of ridiculous battles and the unfortunate tendency to drag out the life of enemy models through reskinning. (“Ooh, it’s that guy, but now he looks all black and burnt. Okay.”) Some of the weapons were pleasantly memorable (the remote-control saw blade, yeah!), and overall, well, it was a creepy enough game that I had to pull my feet up off the floor because I kept having the feeling that something would grab me from under the couch.
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I’ve got to the sixth chapter and haven’t played in about two months. Not because it isn’t good – which it is – but because I am a giant wuss.
OK I SAID IT, HAPPY NOW GAME?
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Dead Space has the distinction of being the only PS3 game I own that I played through enough to earn the platinum trophy. The level of polish and the unique weapons held my interest through 3 playthroughs. I could have done without the asteroid shooting mini game though…
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I’d never pay full price for this, but if it ever eventually shows up as Steam 50% weekend deal I’ll get it.
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I thought the atmosphere was suitably horrific. The monster that screams in very human pain as it spawns those dart-shooting pods; the survivor who is just crying uncontrollably over the corpse of a loved one as you’re trudging through a blood-slick corridor – you can’t talk to her, she’s lost her mind and all you can do is trudge on…
Not to mention the reanimated dead babies.
It wasn’t ‘boo!’ scary, but some of the monster designs and the overall horror of the environment are as bad as any horror movie I’ve seen.
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One of the things that bugged me whilst playing Dead Space was the fact that some of the ‘encounters’ were so amazingly obvious. For example, the decontamination chamber. I’m sure nothing will go wrong whatsoever once I hit that button. Oh, look, zombies!
Ah well, at least it wasn’t as bad as Doom 3, where you got predictably ‘ambushed’ every five seconds.
Maybe I’m just a bit cynical having seen just about every trick in the book…
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The thing with Doom 3, what made it so shit, is that the game was so tunnelled that if you got ambushed the first you’d know about it would be your screen bobbing up and down and your health depleting.
You’d invariably turn around and see this ridiculous monster [and 3 of it's identical brothers] slapping you in the back from a previously ‘empty’ corridor.
One “for fuck sake” later and you’re back peddling shooting bullets apparently made of marzipan trading blows with a beast that’s too fast for you to get away from.
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I quickly gave up playing this game. Sluggish 3rd person controls in tight corridors? Sluggish 3rd person controls when I’m supposed to hit specific bodyparts? No thanks, my natural frustration levels are high enough as they are.
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For those suffering a lot of tearing in this game and hence unwilling to sacrifice vsync, check out the url below.
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=121887
Apparently it only works for ATI hardware (worked beautifully on my 4850), but Nvidia types could give the d3doverrider bit a go.
But whatever you do don’t play with vsync switched on in-game, it totally sucks.
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It took me a while to get used to the controls but like alec says after a while they just ‘click’. Once that happens the game becomes unbelievably compelling. And I really can forgive the mediocre (I refuse to say poor. There have been so many worse!) scripting because the feel of it is so visceral, so real that I couldn’t put it down for hours!
It’s definately on my list of games to buy when I collect enough gold coins to afford it!
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Arca:
I guess it speaks to the power of presentation or Valve’s ingenuity that that exact scenario is used recurringly and to great effect in Left 4 Dead.
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Gah! Not logic!
L4D doesn’t have some of the same problems seeing as it has random horde spawns (rather than a bunch of predictable set pieces) so it’s only those crescendos and finales that stand out.
I have no idea where I’m going with that, but that’s what I get for posting at nearly 4am.
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Looking back on your coverage of games which came out during last year, one sometimes has the feeling that every major game ‘works’ – in spite of some numerous flaws, blooming late, when insulated from pre-release hype, etc.
Is there any big-budget game you guys would consider ‘not good enough’? Is there any AAA title of last year not deserving of your usual ‘not so bad/grows on you/focus on the good’ impressions?
This is not anger. This is perplexity.
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This is a blog written by games journalists in their free time. It turns out they like a lot of games.
Who’d have thought it, eh ? :)
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Someone in these comments mentioned that Dead Space isn’t a ‘genre classic’, and I disagree. I think it may not be an instant classic, but it combines so many of the genres staples so well it’s hard not to recommend.
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I really want this game but out of principle I won’t buy it with limited activations – even with an activation revoke tool. That’s despite seeing it on sale for as low as £15.
I’m still waiting for EA to put it Securom free on Steam in the UK, months after it was made available to the rest of the world.
Why aren’t EA games available on Steam in the UK? Can the guys at RPS get some answers from EA on this? It seems silly in a recession to prevent millions of gamers in the UK buying their games off the most popular digital game delivery system in the world.
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While I enjoyed Dead Space quite a bit, I think it’s single largest failing was being released among a all-time high crowd of other more anticipated titles. A couple months later could have made all the difference, both in terms of polish and sales.
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Apnea: if you’ve really been going back through the site then I don’t think you’ve looked closely enough at the existing coverage. We ignore/dismiss plenty of stuff.
Of course much of the writing on RPS is positive. That’s intentional. A site that focuses on being cynical or angry rapidly becomes tedious, while a site that is always positive becomes shrill and annoying. We’ve tried to strike a balance, but we err on positive, and try to *recommend*. Largely the person who likes a game most has the energy to write about it.
Also, we’ve tended to avoid writing posts that are pure bitching. We ended up not saying much at all about Fallout 3 aside from odd criticisms here and there – which has resulting in at least one random commenter assuming it was our Game Of The Year, despite not even being mentioned in our end of year round up. And only I wanted to write about Far Cry 2, because I had loads of time for it, even when I thought it was horribly flawed.
In fact, now I look back, I can see all the games that we disliked, ignored, or openly laughed at. And there are many. And some of those are the biggest selling titles of 2008.
There’s a whole bunch of mainstream games that barely get any coverage at all. Not because we haven’t played them, but because we’ve got no inclination to give them any air time on RPS.
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I bought this game not so long ago, but unfortunately there’s some serious coding issues that prevent a large proportion (check the dead space official forum) from playing it for more than 5 minutes.
After 24 hours of changing almost every setting on my PC (which is more than capable for Crysis I might add) and updating everything I still had no luck. So I spent 30 minutes getting a refund from Tesco then bought Motorstorm for my PS3 for less than half the price. Never looked back since really!
Shame though, because Dead Space ticked ALL of my boxes and I’m sure I would have loved it. I may grab it for PS3 if my PC-pride will let me.
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Out of all the readers here, I wonder how many really played on the hardest settings. There’s a big gap of fun factor between Medium and Hard, and even more between Hard and Impossible
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The thing about L4D is that it openly says “when you press this button, zombies will appear”
Rich: I can imagine Dead Space working well on a console. The heavy, naturalistic movement system would probably work well with an analogue stick. I remember pressing melee many times, so he’d continue hitting the alien long after it was dead. I don’t know if that was intentional, but it does give a nice feeling of some terrified guy panicking and just wailing on something until it was just giblets. If this were more like a horror game and less like a shooter (with fewer enemies, less powerful weapons and more unpredictable level design, perhaps), it could be really scary.
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On one of the articles that came out when it was released I said I’d maybe give it a go when it was at a budget price. Well I saw it for under a tenner and snagged it. Biggest waste of almost a tenner ever. I should have done a bit of research first and then I’d have found a bunch of people enraged by the problem I ran into: the lousy PC controls.
The game only recognises 3 keys on the mouse and you can only map them to certain functions – and not the ones I like to use the mouse for. I tried setting up the keyboard to something I could work with but it was hopeless. To move fast while steering with the mouse required 3 keys pressed (plus mouse work, obviously) but even when you got going it was pretty clunky.
I lurched down a corridor pursued by monsters at the beginning of the game and got a gun. I can only fire the gun when I’m in aiming mode – another key to press. You’d have thought the player pressing the fire key might be a clue that they’d like to be aiming the gun but not in the world of Dead Space. After a couple of viewings of a fight that looked like something staged by a drunken puppeteer using a puppet with a few broken strings I decided I’d got better things to do. Off it went to the charity shop.
Now perhaps if I’d practiced for an hour or two I’d have got sufficiently used to the controls to make it playable, though it would never have been pleasurable. Or I could got a game controller. But if the developer can’t be bothered to enable you to map keys as you like on the PC – a fairly trivial task that most other games manage – then I can’t be bothered to spend any time on it. There are plenty of better options out there.
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After disabling vsync, I found the controls to be perfectly ok. The game was very stable for me, never crashed. As a game though, it was a bit of a hit and miss. Just like with Bioshock, the massive potential of what the game could have been nagged.
Visual and sound design was great, combat system too. I’d have preferred first person view though, there’s no reason the (admittedly innovative) HUD couldn’t work in first person, except for the life meter. But hey…WHY would you put a life meter along the spine of a suit? Not like you can look at yourself, right? Why not on the wrist?
Silly vending machines and linearity plus a story that started interesting but went to utter shit in the end put it down though. “We built a copy of this monolith and then we made a big monster, because we could, now you must DIE!” kinda sums it up…And the boss fights were seriously shit. Especially the final boss.
To sum it up : An ok game with some good scares that could have been great if it had been introduced to less linearity and more complexity a la System Shock 2. Plus a coherent story. Why is it soooo hard to write a good story???
End rant.
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“I wonder how many really played on the hardest settings.”
I’m going to admit that I didn’t. I don’t trust survival horror games on hard. Going through the game on medium, I could look around and see “there would be a monster right here if I was playing on hard”. Too many enemies takes the tension out of a game. I’d rather saunter through a number of empty corridors, and then get surprised than constantly battling hordes of baddies.
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Actually just a round of applause for Jim’s last posting. That there are 4 actually quite individual brain pods in the hive mind seems to be oft ignored and you are treated as a singular entity. Seriously readers – just imagine one of Gillen’s suits wrapped around a skulking Alec… It just doesn’t work.
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I’d like to add that the screen feels really crammed when you’re not playing it in widescreen. You don’t even see all of Isaac. I really didn’t like it that way (and I do not have a widescreen to try it on. I just saw screenshots which seemed a lot better)
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@Don: Heh, I did try to beat all the zombies I met with the plasma cutter before realising you could shoot with it. In some ways it was a better game before that realisation…
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this game was absolutely brilliant, i’ve heard of people having technical trouble with it and that’s a shame because it really is just resident evil in space, i didn’t notice the vsync issue because i never turn vsync on, why have 30fps of perfect images when you can have 100fps with 99 perfect and 1 fucked that i personally don’t notice when i’m playing cause i’m so immersed in the world.
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@Jim: “Largely the person who likes a game most has the energy to write about it.”
I’m sorry, but the internet largely disagrees. See the legion of furious people who pour out of the woodwork to write essay-length diatribes about how terrible Bioshock is whenever someone says something dangerous and inflammatory, like ‘I enjoyed it’.
Still, it’s nice to see a games blog that is largely focused on reccomending fun things to people, rather than wasting pages where ‘I don’t like it, play something else’ would suffice.
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Dead Space is like tomato soup.
You buy it and consume it while expecting it to be tomato soup.
You will never experience a divine moment of soup-based revelation.
You will never transcend the essence of soup.
You will never find yourself transported through your taste buds into a world of never-ending soup.
What you will get is tomato soup.
Because that was what you wanted.
Which is why you bought it.
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Dominic: I was talking about RPS there, not the internet at large. Clearly the internet is full of whinging fucks.
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I’d like to add that the screen feels really crammed when you’re not playing it in widescreen.
Yeah, that’s what ultimately killed it for me a few hours in. Playing on a 4:3 monitor the camera angle is ridiculously claustrophobic. It’s like playing Splinter Cell in its entirety from the aiming-cam or something.
If it were possible to play it from first person or if it had a third person camera with a wider FOV when you’re moving without your gun drawn, I’d probably rate it somewhere around Doom 3, I guess (which is a game I enjoy for some reason). I’d rate it higher, but the terrible dialogue/acting and neverending monkeyboy quests are fairly crap, as nicely done as the atmosphere and shooty bits are.
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yep as far as i’m aware the RPS writing team are all +15 and all the kids who write about bioshock having not played it are sub human, which is why RPS, including most of their readership, can manage to stop themselves from loudly belching their views of things they have no experience of all over the internet.
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A good game that had to be played in short spurts lest I run out of underwear, it did suffer with a few issues (that are all fixable in a sequel).
When I started, I had the mouse sensitivity issue. Looking back, I assume I would’ve turned off V-Sync, but I guess I didn’t. Maxing sensitivity just about did the trick.
The HUD idea was good, and worked fairly well. No insta-pause map check. The only thing I found “silly” was the health bar on the back. The game story supports this as dig crewmates should be “watching your back” and tell you your health status. But we had no team mates. The 4th wall is broken as we are the team mate. Even a tiny duplicate of the health bar as a wrist watch would’ve sufficed.
The story behind level objectives made me wince. “Ok, we need to get out of here. Oh no wait, this all important thing is broken and needs to be fixed first, then we can go.” Rinse, wash, repeat. Seriously, by about level 10, if you add up all the things that were wrong with the ship, its amazing it didn’t blow up before you arrived. And of course, as soon as you fix up every little problem on this mega-ship, it becomes completely irrelevant.
The end boss was “cool” to a degree. The end boss fight was not. The penultimate level and boss fight lost all the tension and atmosphere. The boss fight itself was….lame? I don’t know how to describe it, but it didn’t feel like Dead Space at that stage.
These are all fairly small niggling issues with the game compared to its overall success. I don’t like scary games, but I enjoyed crapping my pants with Dead Space. =)
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Yeah turning off v-sync is a must, removed all lag for me.
Very enjoyable play through. very atmospheric.
I’ll def purchase the add on.
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What’s a sophist to do when the people he disagrees with are capable of expressing their opinions rationally? Criticise them for doing so!
Critics can’t win — dumb it down to “[game] SUXS!” and you’re rightfully castigated; express an opinion by any means more sophisticated than banging two rocks together, and you’re wrongfully castigated.
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Once I got Dead Space working properly (disabled the Unimodem Half-Duplex Audio Device which was causing _dire_ lag) I was pleasantly surprised to find that I could run it at maximum settings at 1280×1024 (even v-sync seemed to work ok). I found the m/k controls to be good, the UI to be excellent and the combat to be good fun (especially when you go for plasma cutter efficiency:- one shot to the legs, another shot to the arms, STOMP!). I ENJOYED IT! Even the story…
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@Subject 706
Technically, that should read;
“We built a copy of this monolith and then we succumbed to its ill effects and ended up as a big monster, now you must DIE!”
@Xhumar
Aye, I played it through first time on normal, then started it again on Impossible. Using just the Plasma Cutter. I’m about half way through, but it’s hard going to say the least. And all the funner for it.
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I liked it and, and I’m aware this is an odd thing to say on a review site, the fact that my opinion almost always runs in complete opposition to the majority (or at least the most vocal majority) means that “buy it and play it” is the only way I can decide what I do and do not like anymore.
Game reviews are opinions on a form of entertainment and as such are entirely subjective.
@ Rei: I always thought that the health bar on the back actually does make sense in a “real world” kind of way (yes I’m aware that’s a bad turn of phrase to use when discussing a game about monsters on a space ship). Why would you need to see your own health status on a display: if you’re critically injured you would know – because of the pain and disability of a critical injury. Whereas a health indicator visible at distance, even in the soundless vacuum of space, would be advantageous in a number of “oh dear we’ve rapidly depressurised – who needs help first?” scenarios.
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Ah, reading more of these comments reminds me of another reason I came to dislike Dead Space: it wasn’t an horror game as I thought it would be. It was not, to borrow a metaphor, tomato soup. It was chicken soup, which isn’t terrible, but isn’t the tomato soup that I was craving. It was too action-ish, a la RE4 and 5 (games that I enjoy, but then again I wanted them to be actiony zombie-shooting games).
For horror, I still turn to Eternal Darkness, the game that gives you marzipan bullets to kill various incarnations of vile horrors and zombies, and then you explode into kibble.
Only you didn’t actually explode, and the zombies weren’t actually there; you’ve hallucinated the whole thing.
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Does anybody have a solution to Dead Space switching to sluggish mode as soon as you enter aim mode? I’d like for aim mode mouse speed to be exactly the same as regular mode mouse speed. If that happens, I can bear playing the game. Even with strafing while walking being really odd, and the horrible save point mechanic that I thought PC games had left behind.
With my former graphics card, a GeForce 8800 GT, I had random crashes, at least that doesn’t happen with my Radeon 4870 anymore now.
So, anybody found a way to make aiming mode work like it should in a PC title, and not a console title?
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@Jim Rossignol
Thanks for the response by the way. Helps to explain why negative coverage felt sparse.
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Dead Space deleted all of my save files for no reason recently, and I was on chapter 9 :(
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@l1ddl3monkey: Yes, I did think about that, but considering it is also a space suit, I figure it must also represent its condition also. No good going into a zero-g/no atmosphere/in space area if your suit is roughed up.
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The game was genuinely scary, and the Ishimura was beautiful in its grotesque decadence. The sense of mystery prevailed until the end, and I was compelled to keep playing it even as things went from bad to worse. And it played slick as honey on jackfruit.
There was significant lore to take in after finishing the game, and as sci-fi universes go, this one was compellingly claustrophobic.
Honestly, I don’t understand why everyone is justifying this game. What’s there not to like in the first place?
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Great article Alec. This is one that I’d consciously avoided after reading a PCG article where it was mentioned the designers of Dead Space hadn’t heard of SS2.
A good reason to ignore a game? No. Not that I’m suggesting that’s what PCG were recommending of course! It was more of a “this is a space based horror game….and they’ve not HEARD of System Shock 2!”.
I’ll definitely give this one a try.
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Dead Space is a bravura example of solid, unoriginal game-making. I do seem to recall some claims that EA was going in new and exciting directions with it, though. Which seems to have been a load of bollocks, if indeed such claims were made.
I don’t trust my memory anymore. :P
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I found Dead Space to be mostly bland, very repetitive, and marred by unintentionally cryptic puzzles. I gave up about halfway though. I’d rerouted enough power ducts for one lifetime.
The feeling that the game is entirely manufactured for the sake of creating a ‘brand’ is overpowering. Nobody loved this premise or this story, and it was simply an obstacle between the (mostly outsourced) developers and their paychecks.
Action Button’s hilarious review (a rare sympathetic piece of Tim Rogers affect-o-prose) incredibly manages to find *empirical examples* of how the developers did just enough – but no more – to make the game functional: http://www.actionbutton.net/?p=495
The zero-g bits are nice. As is the sound.
But of course it’s not fit to lick Resident Evil 4′s parasite-riddled pantaloons.
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Actually, despite Alec’s ragging on the title, “Dead Space” is an actual term. It’s a reference to the volume of air in the lungs that is not used during respiration (since the alveoli don’t come into contact with it). And this is a game set in space, where the protagonist wanders between vacuums and needs to be constantly wary of his air supply.
Combined with the obvious references (it’s a game set in Space, with Dead monsters), and it’s apparent that at the very least they put some thought into the title. I thought it was really fitting.
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I can’t help but wonder – and I’m surprised no one has been bold enough to say this – if the recent increase in attention that this game has gotten has been at least partially because people are re-evaluating how polished and well-implemented a game it is compared to Resident Evil 5. I’d go as far as to say that Dead Space is the better of the two. It certainly handles better.
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Man, people have a lot to say about Dead Space. I ended up doing a review on it, primarily because I my site got it wrong (initiative, riiiiiight), but also since it was surprisingly better than anticipated.
You can find my recipe for Dead Space (and review) here:
http://forum.pausegaming.com/showthread.php?t=2246
Or read on….
Dead Space Pie
Ingredients:
Gaming Mixture
Resident Evil 4 – 200g plain (base of pastry)
Doom 3 – 60g to add repetitive dark environments
System Shock 2 – 45g for richness in plot and character via audio logs
2001: A Space Odyssey – Pinch for seasoning
Event Horizon to bind it together
Game Structure Mixture
500g of solid Aliens style action
1 large section of Solaris to fill in the holes left by Event Horizon
1 stock cube of Sunshine for dramatic space opera visuals
Granules of Evil Dead for gross out gore
Blade Runner technology to aid seasoning
28 Days Later violence
1 tsp of The Thing for bizarre monsters
Method
Trim any gristle off the Aliens and dice into bit sized chunks. Don’t fry, keep it nice and rare, bloodier the better, then place in an EA development studio covered in controlling project managers, then add Sunshine, Solaris, 28 Days Later violence, Blade Runner and The Thing. Leave to seep and get some famous comic and animation artists involved.
Cook at 160 degrees c for about 1 year then stir in a tbsp of Evil Dead until it thickens then allow to cool for few months or until just warm.
Meanwhile, mince the Doom 3 (it’s hard to mix) and System Shock 2 (get rid of the best bits) and rub into RE4 and the 2001 with your fingertips until it resembles a playable game. Rub the Event Horizon in then add enough other horror ideas to bind the mixture. Cut in half and roll out on an office surface (to make the game at least 12hrs rather than 6) then place in a greased console, trimming the excess story and puzzles to keep things simple.
Add gaming mixture then use the other half of the gaming structure to make a lid. Brush with Event Horizon then put in an oven pre heated to 190 degrees c.
Bake for 1 month or until the game is fluid and original elements are less recognisable.
Leave to cool for 2 weeks before serving with an animated film and comic series.
Fini
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“I found Dead Space to be mostly bland, very repetitive, and marred by unintentionally cryptic puzzles. I gave up about halfway though. I’d rerouted enough power ducts for one lifetime.”
That’s an unfair judgement of the game. Certainly there are a lot of power ducts to reroute, but they’re not difficult to figure out, and they actually make sense in the game’s context
And what about the cryptic puzzles? Which are you referring to, because I honestly don’t recall any. Then again it’s been a while since I last touched it, but I promised myself to go back to Impossible difficulty once my graphics card gets fixed up
Like I said before, if you find it bland and repetitive, it’s probably because you’re not playing it correctly ie. Hard
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What exactly is the difference on Hard? I only played it on Normal and got bored after a few hours.
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I thought Dead Space was a marvel. I enjoyed it immensely all the way through, and i think what they did with sound rivals even Bioshock, or even the stuff Eric Brosius was doing with Looking glass and Irrational. It’s a mindblowingly solid game that gets past its archaic conventions by simply doing everything as it should be. Much like Resident Evil 5 in that regard. There are mechanics and rules that should be taken out back and shot, but in a game world built by people who understand them to the bottom, they become deliciously palatable nonetheless.
I think the dudes that made Dead Space should be proud as all hell. It’s one of my favorite sci-fi horror games ever made.
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I just couldn’t stand the aiming for some reason or the flow both on pc and console. Which meant I fundamentally hated fighting the alien things.
I comfortably settled into resi 4 and 5 doing reasonably well at the combat but I just cant seem to do well in dead space.
It also scared me more than any other game has for some reason im not sure why, I think im one of the few people still suceptable to monster in the closet scares
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Personally I thought Dead Space was an excellent game. It was a technically competent and streamlined action game with more interesting weapons than the usual FPS fare.
I can only even come close to classifying it as horror playing on impossible difficulty through. Apart from inordinate amounts of gore and a few monster-in-closet scares (which let’s face it got old after Resident Evil 2) the game fails to provide an atmosphere (simply because the weapons are powerful and ammo plentiful) on lower difficulties. On impossible I actually found myself hurting for ammo sometimes, and I felt vulnerable as a result (knowing a large wave of enemies is coming and being unsure if you’ll have enough ammo for them all is fantastic). Even so, the survival horror genre hasn’t aged well. The same easy tricks just won’t work and developers need to go the extra mile to create a tense atmosphere.
Sure, Dead Space is unoriginal, taking bits and pieces from all sorts of games, but it presents them all in a compellingly well made package. As far as I’m concerned, that’s all a game needs to be great.
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After reading all these comments it leaves me wondering how many people played first time through on hard.
I beat this game on hard for 360 using only the first gun (for achievement) and went back and tried to play on medium to get the other gun achievements, i found medium to be such a droll i couldnt even play thru the first chapter.
For those of you struggling to find some replay value, i would go back and play through on hard or impossible using only the plasma cutter. It was one of my best gaming experiences of 2008
PS: for those of you saying it a copy and paste of RE over a space backround, RE:5 could have learned ALOT from this game, maybe this is a franchise that can pick up the horror genre where RE:5 dropped the ball
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I always did applaud DeadSpace, for while it didn’t do anything new everything it did do it did just right. Contrived as it may be it’s still a solid experience and the same reason you may thoroughly enjoy an action flick and re-watch it multiple times (say, Commando or something else from the 80′s).
It could certainly stand to be a slight bit original of course, and I suspect even an inkling of such would have propelled it greatly. Were it to step ever so slightly into the realm of the unpredictable it’d be great, but everything that happens is far too obvious to reap any enjoyment from it. In fact, the only genuine scary moment I can recall was a complete fluke as I did a 180 and found myself smack dab in front of a monster I had no inclination of.
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As an aside I just found this on Gameplay for £12.99 this bank holiday. Have just ordered it and looking forward to playing it after reading this interesting article and posts.
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I had great time playing this game. Try to beat me at sigizz.mybrute.com
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Dead Space also accomplished something in regards to the way it employed sound that other games have not. When entering a room with exceptionally loud machinery, the sound is engulfing and suffocating and also drowns out the sound of nearby attackers lending a sense of claustrophobic anxiety in engine rooms.
In addition, areas when the sound is muffled due to the vacuum of space also negate the obvious suffling and screeching of incoming hostilities.
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I rather liked Deadspace, even though I find the plot and level design creatively bankrupt. Now that I’m not actually playing it, I can even poke a lot of holes in the game-play itself.
Really, the plot is just insufferably full of gaps– Why does X keep trying to kill you if it wants you to do what you’re doing? Why do doors constantly lock and unlock themselves ‘randomly’ and yet always let you go where you need to go (assuming it isn’t waiting for you to watch someone die, first)? How the f**k do all these chuckleheads manage to stay alive just long enough for you to see them die? How did one basic enemy manage to kill an entire ship full of badasses who should’ve known exactly what they were facing and should’ve been ready to fight? I could ask these kinds of questions all day.
The basic answer amount to: “So we could pad out the action another hour or two.” or “It worked for the game-play”. The story is absolutely there to feed into the action, nothing more, and the action is laid out in the most pragmatic, efficient fashion to maintain a certain level of tension/catharsis.
Ultimately I was infuriated by the plot, and the big ‘hallucinations’ reveal. We knew all along that people were seeing weird sh*t, but it’s not like we had any choice but to heed them since this a 100% sequential, non-branching plot. Once we hit the big reveal, it’s actually more sensible to assume that the main character was hallucinating anything and everything, because that would make more sense than the selective, externally-caused hallucinations that we’re supposed to believe in the ‘emotional’ plot twist. What was up with that ‘escort’ sequence, why were the aliens trying to attack something that wasn’t even there, and how did we get the door open if nobody was helping us? Also, if Z was dead the whole time, how did said corpse get on the shuttle so that it could eat your face in a non-controllable cinematic? Or was that also a hallucination? That anything could’ve been a hallucination is actually a sensible response to many of the plot and map design holes.
Maybe there were no locked doors or lockers, the protagonist was simply unable to conceive of opening them until the Director decided to let them.
But really I’m just overthinking. It’s a tight, methodical action game, and it does this well. There is no stealth, no branching plot, no sanity-check on the plot, it’s just a really spiffy corridor shooter. I even played it with V-sync on because I liked the slow, deliberate movements this forced, it felt right! ;)
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The only games I can ever recall being fundamentally better on higher difficulties were things like Thief (and I think there are one or two others that do this) which add objectives in higher difficulties, thus expanding what you actually do in the game. Virtually everyone else just makes you less capable and the enemies more. I guess if challenge is your only criterion as to whether a game is enjoyable to play, the difficulty might make a difference there, but it’s certainly not mine.
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I was talking about this not long ago on my blog when I gave the game a spin, and I agree that the game is a whole lot better than the hype surrounding the game’s release suggested.
It seems to me that the game’s main problem was it’s trying to pass itself off as being scary. It has a few decent scares, but for the most part the scariness factor is rather corny. This is where the negative hype came from: as far as survival horror goes, it doesn’t deliver well in the horror aspect.
That’s fine: minor interface and plot quibbles aside, the rest of the game is awesome. Aside from a diminished RPG, it’s the kind of System Shock successor I was looking for. I don’t like being scared that much, anyway.
I can actually explain some of these plot holes:
“Why does X keep trying to kill you if it wants you to do what you’re doing?”
Because X is not controlling the Necromorphs that are trying to kill you but rather part of the agent that serves to thwart the Necromorph hive mind.
“Why do doors constantly lock and unlock themselves ‘randomly’ and yet always let you go where you need to go (assuming it isn’t waiting for you to watch someone die, first)?”
It some cases it makes more sense than others – you’ll actually watch people activating something on their wrist that opens the door. Most of the doors are unlocked later because those who had the access to do so unlocked them when they thought it was appropriate. In the least forgivable cases, it was because the developers wanted the players to see a premade scripted cutscene without it – a required GM restriction to progress the story.
“If Z was dead the whole time, how did said corpse get on the shuttle so that it could eat your face in a non-controllable cinematic? Or was that also a hallucination?”
These unasked questions are there deliberately to prompt a sequel.
One good question is how Z, on behalf of X, was able to manifest in such a way it must be defended so it can unlock a door for you. Is Issac actually the one opening the door? It seems to me that perhaps X had some telekinetic power, and was able to do things such as hack computers when needed (explaining certain faces and patterns to appear on screens).
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