Gamespot score:9.0(editor's choice)
my score:8.3
(+)pros:-great atmosphere comparible to that of silent hill,-solid scares,-extremely detailed enemies,- quite a variety of weapons and armor,- dismembering is fun.- some innovative ideas,- extremely bloody and full of gore
(-)cons:- no replay value,- many pointless and stupid minigames
gameplay time:10-20 hours(below average)
Here we are, the re-do review of dead space which I did last year. I was looking at my review of dead space last year, lol I was so unorganized back then. Oh well lets go through this again eh? Dead space is a 2nd person horror shooter game. I am not a fan of horror games...not cause Im practically afraid, its just they are mostly quite short. And plus Im not a shooter kind of guy, so this kind of game shouldnt appeal to me, but it did. Dead space's horror and shooter mechanics do well to elevate it above others.
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Dead space has a pretty normal story. Issac clark is sent together with a team of repairmen to do some repair jobs on the space center "ishimura", after not receiving contact from it for a long time. Upon landing the team is astonished to find aliens which kill most of thier team. Issac is seperated from the survivors from his team and is forced to travel alone on the deserted ship to desperetely find a way to escape the nightmare, as well as search for his missing girlfriend who works on the ship, by the name of nicole.
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Dead space does well, both as a shooter and a horror game. Though it does not have a dark and scary and mysterious story like that of silent hill, it defininetely tops the it in terms of gameplay, and at times, scaring. Lets first talk about its horror elements. Dead space has atmosphere comaprible to that of silent hill, which is great. While silent hill had the creepy static sounds when approaching a monster(which scares the player shitless at times), dead space has silent treatment, which works suprisingly well! All you hear most of the times are Issac's footsteps, until an echo is heard down the hallway, this mostly puts players on alert already, pointing thier gun straight down the hallway, walking down it at the same time. All they find however, is an alien carcass, but lowering their guns is the players' downfall at this time. When the player walks over the body, the alien springs out and delivers a killing blow! This is enough the fuck the shit out of players , and moments like these are priceless!
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bNow to comment on dead space as a shooter. Dead space is a good shooter, despite the great horror elements. The weapons look futuristic and creative. They twisted mordern day weapons to make them look futuristic, and they suceeded! Flame thrower in this game is much nicer than a mordern day flame thrower, and machine gun as one can guess takes the form of the awesome pulse rifle. Many other transformations, such as the pistol taking form of the plasma cutter, and the chainsaw taking form of the ripper, are extremly welcoming as well. Not only weapons, but issac's armor changes along the course of his frigthening journey as well. With so many weapons at your disposal, taking out the drooling, creepy...and disgustingly detailed aliens are fun as heck.
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Dead space seems like it has many good points, but it suffers from no replay value. This is the same for stuff like the old resident evil games and parasite eve games. Once you have played the game once, you know the locations where monsters are gonna pop up at you or where the scary shits happen. It just aint scary anymore, this takes out more than 50% of the game. Also, this game only has one ending, which makes replaying the game even more worthless. Also, this game has so many lame minigames. Like the chapter where there are so many training like equipment around, or the chapter where you have to shoot down meteors. Minigames, though there arent alot of them, take alot out of this game. They are difficult, time consuming, and stupid.
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bDead space seems like it has many good points, but it suffers from no replay value. This is the same for stuff like the old resident evil games and parasite eve games. Once you have played the game once, you know the locations where monsters are gonna pop up at you or where the scary shits happen. It just aint scary anymore, this takes out more than 50% of the game. Also, this game only has one ending, which makes replaying the game even more worthless. Also, this game has so many lame minigames. Like the chapter where there are so many training like equipment around, or the chapter where you have to shoot down meteors. Minigames, though there arent alot of them, take alot out of this game. They are difficult, time consuming, and stupid.
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Despite the factors concerning minigames and replay value, dead space excels as both a horror and shooter game. Since the main course of combat is dismemberment, this can be fun for gore fanatics. For those looking for a good horror game for the current gen, this game is a must get, since the current gen has little good horror games. 
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