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.

Dead Space is a fantastic and refreshing new game to come out in a long time. The game is like a combination of Bioshock-Resident Evil-Gears of war all combined! If you liked any of those games or all 3 (like I did) then you should do your self a favor and get this game NOW!

It is a wonderful mix of sci-fi horror 3rd person shooter with a great story, plenty of action and gore.....creepy. A good example of the scare tactics used in this game are the wall busters(as I like to call them) you could be all caught up in the moment only to have a creature bust through the vent shaft, ceiling, glass...any where they can and scare the heck out of you! You will get goose bumps(I know, I have) The controls might take a little time for some as there are 2 button combinations for some actions like: LT+A or LT+RB which should not be to difficult to pick up pretty quickly.

The graphics are top notch along with a spooky sound track that you would expect from this type of game. The story is done very well in my opinion and keeps you alert as to what you need to do next. There is a very helpful direction laser as I like to call it, that when activated (Pressing down on the right thumb stick) can show you the direction you need to go, very helpful if you get stuck. There are some zero gravity areas that some gamers might find disorienting a bit, but should not be for most. The is not a game for the faint at heart, be prepared to get scared and have fun at the same time!

Dead Space looks like it has it all: creepy visuals, intense action, and blood and gore galore! Looks like a combination of Aliens and Doom!