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Platform: PC
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When an immense mining ship, the USG Ishimura, comes into contact with a mysterious alien artifact in a remote star system, its communications with Earth are mysteriously cut off. Engineer Isaac Clarke is sent to repair the Ishimura's communications array, but he arrives to find a living nightmare - the ship is a floating bloodbath, the crew unspeakably mutilated and infected by an ancient alien scourge. Clarke's repair mission becomes one of survival as he fights not just to save himself, but to return the artifact to the planet ... at any cost.
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In the future, Earth's appetite for resources has become a major motivator for deep space exploration. Immense, privately-owned and operated mining ships called "planetcrackers" orbit planets and use sophisticated equipment to carve out entire city-sized chunks of rock, and reduce them to component elements and raw ore.
Communications with one of these planetcrackers, the USG Ishimura, have ceased while the ship is engaged in deep space mining operations.
The company's top engineer, Isaac Clarke, is sent to discover the problem and fix it. Once onboard the vessel, Clarke discovers that a terrifying alien presence has taken over the ship, and has horribly killed the crew. Weaponless and terrified, this lone engineer is burdened with much more than simple survival - he holds the fate of all mankind in his hands.
- Dismemberment: This game's core mechanic is the strategic dismemberment of alien appendages. In true survival horror fashion, you must conserve ammo - in true Hollywood horror fashion, it's all about seeing bone fragments and arterial spray fly across the room. Enemies in the game are resilient. The conventional wisdom that a headshot will stop an alien is thrown out in Dead Space.
- Setting and Atmosphere: Dead Space is an immersive, interactive horror movie experience. An emergent, panic-inducing audio system, an innovative Minority Report-style HUD, and a nuanced, scary pace that will sink you into the game experience.
- Unique Weaponry: Stasis Gun is used to slow charging aliens and to help solve puzzles. The Gravity Gun and unique projectile-based weaponry are mining tools - your ability to upgrade weapons increases as you progress through the game.
- Zero Gravity: Survive and destroy the aliens in Zero G environments. Manipulate gravity with Havok physics to solve
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By JezB
Platform for Display:PC
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Really sad to see some of the disappointing ratings for this title on here as for me this is the best game I've ever played, and the nearest thing you'll ever find to playing the film Alien on a PC.
I've got an above average spec system and managed to max out all setting in super smooth 1920 x 1080. The graphics detail of the ship is excellent, and the level design completes the feeling of isolation in space as you travel up and down the tram system, completing objectives and trying to work out what's happened.
The beauty of this game is that you have plenty of time to take in the current scenery, soaking up the atmosphere, and then go for the big shoot-out when you feel ready for it. Every new task is a reward of ticking off the classic sci-fi scene checklist. From Bio Lab to Hydroponics bay it references a number of great films and is brilliant eye candy.
The real stand out feature for me is the health & comm's display built into your man's suit. I especially like the holographic video pop-ups when your companions are contacting you.. it hits all my sci-fi geek buttons. The voice acting is also believable and extremely atmospheric.
The game is really terrifying with the amusingly gruesome deaths, viscously mutated monsters, and the fading in psycho style music preparing you for another slasher moment.
For the few pounds on here it's a 2012 bargain.
I've got an above average spec system and managed to max out all setting in super smooth 1920 x 1080. The graphics detail of the ship is excellent, and the level design completes the feeling of isolation in space as you travel up and down the tram system, completing objectives and trying to work out what's happened.
The beauty of this game is that you have plenty of time to take in the current scenery, soaking up the atmosphere, and then go for the big shoot-out when you feel ready for it. Every new task is a reward of ticking off the classic sci-fi scene checklist. From Bio Lab to Hydroponics bay it references a number of great films and is brilliant eye candy.
The real stand out feature for me is the health & comm's display built into your man's suit. I especially like the holographic video pop-ups when your companions are contacting you.. it hits all my sci-fi geek buttons. The voice acting is also believable and extremely atmospheric.
The game is really terrifying with the amusingly gruesome deaths, viscously mutated monsters, and the fading in psycho style music preparing you for another slasher moment.
For the few pounds on here it's a 2012 bargain.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Richard
Platform for Display:PC|Amazon Verified Purchase
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
If you have never played this then you are truly missing out on something that is exceptional brilliant and scary. If you like Futuristic shooting games with zombie monsters then you are going to love this, the game play is so cool and fun, the story is amazingly in depth and thrilling, the graphics are stunning. The playability well I have played this threw 5 times and even when you complete it on any difficulty it changes the game play by each round your going threw the game, so monsters pop up in different places really keeps you on you toes. Don't worry if your new to this because you are guided threw the whole game, you can even select which objective your want to go to, like if you have use the shop or bench then it will guide you to the nearest one. Dead Space is one of my favourite ever games, most third person shooter disappoint with cam controls, aiming etc but this is spot on! EA has really has out done it's self with this title! I have own Dead Space 2 and it's is Epic can't wait for Dead Space 3!!! :D
80 of 92 people found the following review helpful
By Craig Lam
TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Platform for Display:PC
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
*DRM will not factor in my assessment of this game. For the record - I don't approve of the system, but I feel that the game is worth buying anyway.*
This is an action adventure game in the style of System Shock 2 and, more recently, Bioshock. In other words: it's an atmospheric adventure with a linear plot, a lot of shooting and some very light RPG character progression elements, which I will expand on later.
Premise:
The game's premise is hackneyed. You are a simple mechanic travelling on a support ship to investigate a huge mining ship that has ceased communications mysteriously. Sounds familiar? It is. In many ways this game is a tribute to the entire "In space, no one can hear you scream" subgenre - it borrows heavily storywise and thematically from films such as the Alien series, and Event Horizon. A sense of isolation and hopelessness is present throughout.
Plotting and structure:
As I mentioned, the plot is linear and tight. The pacing is carefully measured and the level design is well considered, with each area presenting a decent variety of different challenges and puzzles. The objectives you have to achieve are feasible in the contexts they are presented in, though occasionally it is obvious that the developers have added find and fetch goals that do little for the game but fill in time. There are numerous scripted events in the tradition of the games and films it was influenced by - creatures casting shadows round corners, crew members of the ship dying in various horrible ways, and environmental events such as explosions and fires.
Information about the situation on the ship is gradually revealed via video, text, and audio logs that crew members have conveniently left behind for you to pick up.... Read more ›
This is an action adventure game in the style of System Shock 2 and, more recently, Bioshock. In other words: it's an atmospheric adventure with a linear plot, a lot of shooting and some very light RPG character progression elements, which I will expand on later.
Premise:
The game's premise is hackneyed. You are a simple mechanic travelling on a support ship to investigate a huge mining ship that has ceased communications mysteriously. Sounds familiar? It is. In many ways this game is a tribute to the entire "In space, no one can hear you scream" subgenre - it borrows heavily storywise and thematically from films such as the Alien series, and Event Horizon. A sense of isolation and hopelessness is present throughout.
Plotting and structure:
As I mentioned, the plot is linear and tight. The pacing is carefully measured and the level design is well considered, with each area presenting a decent variety of different challenges and puzzles. The objectives you have to achieve are feasible in the contexts they are presented in, though occasionally it is obvious that the developers have added find and fetch goals that do little for the game but fill in time. There are numerous scripted events in the tradition of the games and films it was influenced by - creatures casting shadows round corners, crew members of the ship dying in various horrible ways, and environmental events such as explosions and fires.
Information about the situation on the ship is gradually revealed via video, text, and audio logs that crew members have conveniently left behind for you to pick up.... Read more ›
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Platform for Display:PC
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Bought this game as it had gone down in price and what a bargain! Ok so the game is very linear and you pretty much just follow the route you are given (which is literally marked on the floor when you press a certain button) but the fun comes from trying to stay alive and not mess up your pants in the process!
The graphics are excellent and gameplay is smooth. Unusually for a game of this genre you have a third person perspective directly behind the player but I quickly got used to it and has the advantage of being able to see if a monster is attacking you from behind.
The monsters are very creative and grotesque and to kill them you have to shoot their limbs off which is nice.
I was constantly on edge playing this game because at any moment some creature could jump out of vent or appear from the darkness and I lost count of the amount of times I jumped in this game!
Fantastic game and I will definitely be getting the second installment in the near future.
The graphics are excellent and gameplay is smooth. Unusually for a game of this genre you have a third person perspective directly behind the player but I quickly got used to it and has the advantage of being able to see if a monster is attacking you from behind.
The monsters are very creative and grotesque and to kill them you have to shoot their limbs off which is nice.
I was constantly on edge playing this game because at any moment some creature could jump out of vent or appear from the darkness and I lost count of the amount of times I jumped in this game!
Fantastic game and I will definitely be getting the second installment in the near future.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Ridiculous Controls
There is no way of remapping the control keys
making it basically an unplayable waste of time.
Once again another example of inane, illogical, badly programming of a... Read more
making it basically an unplayable waste of time.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Dead frustrating
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This is not much of a review on the game its self as what I would like to say about this game has all ready be said by other reviewers on Amazon. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Matt.P.Reed
3.0 out of 5 stars
Spiritual sucessor to System shock 2 unlike Bioshock
Dead Space is about the USG Ishimura, a planet cracking ship (Mining ship that uses tethers to grab a part of the planet and break it off into orbit for mineral processing). Read more
Published 20 months ago by Jason Prudhoe
3.0 out of 5 stars
Gothic horror in space. Well worth a look but curse those asteroids!
OK so some of the negative criticism of Dead Space is probably justified; the storyline is rather linear, the controls are quite cumbersome (I settled on gamepad, mouse and... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Cartimand
1.0 out of 5 stars
Pile of CACK!
YAWN! Seriously if you like Sci Fi go read a book! WOO! they named the character after two great Sci Fi writers it must be good right? Read more
Published 22 months ago by Mr. A. Aspinall
1.0 out of 5 stars
PC Version Is Awful, Great Game To Play On Consoles
My stars represent the PC version on bases of issues I have with it I would give it 4/5 for fun and 4/5 for overall from my experience from the PS3 version..... Read more
Published on 6 Jun 2011 by Dav-id83
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