Some people really don't realize that all games are great. This game is ok but there were some things I missed and I wanted to see them. I was kind of let down by the storyline but, I really like the combat scheme and everything else. A sequel would be somewhat interesting I guess.... but I think I will pass.

You are placed in the boots of Isaac Clarke a lowly engineer on board the USG Kellion, a shuttle headed towards the USG Ishimura, an immense mining ship(or planetcracker). What seems like an every day routine repair quickly turns into the stuff nightmares are made of. The mining crews down on Aegis 7, the planet they're cracking, have found a misterious artifact known as "The Marker". Soon afterwards, Necromorph infections soon spread to the Ishimura.

The graphics in Dead Space can only be described as dark, cramped and frightening, it's not for people with claustrophobia. Another thing that adds to the creep factor is the audio. both the visuals and the audio combine effectively to form an out of this world horror expirience.

Let's talk about gameplay, enemies will almost constantly appear out of nowhere, so develop a habit of looking over you're shoulder. Combat is fast paced and intense. What this game does different is the fact that headshots dont work well anymore, unless you want to make a Necromorph flail it's limbs blindly. What does work well is dismembering limbs, it kills them quicker and saves you ammo, trust me you'll need that ammo. Controls are simple and a breeze to learn, this will make you're stay on board the Ishimura that much more enjoyable.

Weapons include a variety of mining tools, the best ones for me are the Plasma Cutter, Line Gun, Ripper and Pulse Rifle(thats the only actual gun in the game). Isaac also has two handy abilities that can serve well whether it's killing Necromorphs or solving some of the puzzles in the game, I'm talking of course of Stasis and Kinesis(NOTE: it's just Kinesis, not TELEkinesis, it's not a mind trick in this game.) Early in the game Isaac finds and attaches the Kinesis and Stasis modules onto his arm. Stasis is a projectile that dramatically slows down anything you aim it at, making a puzzle easier to solve or limbs easier to chop. Kinesis allows you to pick up objects and bring them to you, wheher it's something out of reach or something to use when you're out of ammo.

Dead Space is by far the best horror game I've played since...ever. From the bone chilling beginning to the startleling end, this game will keep you screaming and keep you sleeping with the lights on. The game has no other modes, but replayability is very high. I would recommend this to anyone who wants any of the following: a challenge, a terrifying expirience, a fun time or all of the above.

Marooned on a derelict mining vessel out in the vastness of space--already starting to sound like a bleak situation, eh? The main protagonist Issac and his panic-stricken comrades search for a way off the ship while inquiring for answers on what happened in the first place. The story and situations will seem standard to sci-fi horror movie/game fans--because they are.

You're immediately lobbed into the lunacy of Dead Space--narrow corridors, taut atmospheric lighting, and enough unsettling sounds to freak out the most resolved horror fans out there. The game is set through missions in which you must traverse through--much like Resident Evil 4, unraveling the story as the missions unfold.

You'd be surprised how many exceptional environments are embraced--blood curdled walls, unfathomable engine rooms, quasi-safe medlabs, and fortuitously beautiful greeneries. Dead Space will have you frightfully dashing from one end of the ship to the other in a frantic haze to achieve your mission--survive.

Dead Space is an innovator in hud-less games. I feel that the fluent onscreen information and inventories is extremely important to the game--since it adds a layer of apprehension. When Isaac accesses his inventories the camera sweeps in closer depriving the player of precious peripheral vision--add that and the perpetual frightening such-and-such, you'll be sure to pick through your pockets with the uttermost quickness.

Dead Space has also made me happy because it offers a key feature most games really don't anymore, and that's a damn good challenge. This game will impale your stomach, head-butt your face, then slice your mandible like some sick sadistic sociopath. However unlike real-life, you get to experience these sensations over and over again! Ammo is scarce and appropriate cover is disingenuous. All of the well-organized factors EA Redwood team aimed for have been accomplished. From art to sound and controls, it's spot on. This game will irk you unsettled and keep you up at night.

There's really only one major problem I have with the game--redundancy. Ultimately, the game coins the term "monster closet". Search for an objective, finding that objective initiates the trigger for a notorious baddie to leap out at you--eventually diminishing returns will set in. But that's why fans of these games purchase them. You can't get these sorts of visceral emotions from simply watching horror movies. You need to experience it for yourself! Frankly, I feel bad for horror fans who aren't gamers, they'd absolutely eat this title up.

EA has hit it's mark with Dead Space. I can see it becoming a venerable franchise for the company and the fans. Don't miss out on this title if you're a survival/horror fan.

The storyline is totally B-movie, but everything else about this game is first-rate. This is the first horror game I've played that out-Resident Evil'ed RE4. The enemies are vile, the weapons are vicious, and the atmosphere is untouchable. This is a must-play game (and wait until you see some of the bosses!)

The negative title suggests there's a problem with this game. There is. However, this game is completely deserving of all the love I'm about to give it, so I'll get the complaint out fo the way right now. This game is completely unoriginal. It can be summed up in three games. Resident Evil 4, Doom 3, Gears of War.
The story is Doom 3. You're stuck on a ship of some sort in space, there are monsters that are hideous deformations of real people everywhere, and things are very dark, and you've got to both fix the ship and found out why things are all creepy-like.
The gameplay is straight up RE4. The camera follows behind your back in the same over-the-shoulder and you have to hold down a trigger button to aim, and you get the same aiming too.
And I dont know what, but it's got a general gears-of-war feeling that i can't put my finger on. but oh it's there.
when you play this game, you'll realize this right away. you've seen it all before. With the exception of some anti-gravity segments in which you use your gun to jump around rooms (which, fyi, is completely awesome) there's nothing new here.
Normally I'd mark a game down for that. But I can forgive it this time. Hell, if the title screen said "your mother is a whore" and i'd forgive it in a few minutes.
The game oozes quality. The graphics are amazing. The colors change from the occasional bright brownish-red to near total brown darkness, the only light coming from the sights of your guy. Despite this, you can still tell which parts of the walls are covered in flesh and which aren't. Everything from the skinned bodies of your enemies is highly detailed, and your character looks phenominal. And, when you get up close, you get blood splattered on you. AWESOME!
The visuals are also increased by one of its better features. No HUD to speak of. Any communications or files you find are project holographically in front of you. Your health meter is on your back, and your weapons display ammo on themselves. This makes it seem more horrific, as there is nothing to take you out of the experience.
The audio is equally amazing. Most of the panic-music seems to come from the environments themselves, building from sound affects and the monsters themselves. When there's no action, you're treated to your own footsteps, monster's grunts, and disembodied whispering. It may sound weird, but it's delicously disturbing.
I really love it, though, because it completely revises Survival-Horror. The combat and pacing are phenominal. the combat is viscal. The enemies are truly frightening, and have certain weakpoints that can only be found through trial and error. It's not neccisary to kill them this way, and it serves to add an element of panic. You are often attacked by multiple enemies, but the game goes for quality over quanitity. Your odds are often frighteningly bleak, but not so much that you realize how hard it is and remember you're playing a game. There is enough ammo to keep you alive with liberal use, but there's just so little to keep you hording it because you always have only just enough. When you're not being attacked, you're either trying to fix the ship, doing some errand or another, or being treated to random creepiness that's thrown in occasionally ( a woman cutting open a corpse with a knife, laughs, and slits her own throat) The result is that you're never doing the same thing, yet never wishing you were doing something else. Such a balance of pacing and atmosphere is rarely pulled off in games, and Dead Space does it beautifully.
Dead space isnt' original in the very least. Everything it does has already been done. But everything it does, it does perfectly. This game completely blew my expectations out of the water, and is a must-buy for anyone that is even remotely interested in it.