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As stated this is just a mini review of Dead Space, a game I recently bought when it was cheap on Steam. I’m going to keep this short and simple. If you want to know more about the game this is probably not the review for you.
Well since this game was meant to be a horror game I’ll talk about that first. I have to say that at first it was rather intense but as it went on it really lost that intensity just due to the fact that became repetitive, but I must admit even in the later stages of the game I still jumped sometimes when things snuck up on me. The atmosphere and sound did a good job of this and I think the sound was probably the best/worst part of this game considering how many times I had to stop and look around because I thought I heard something. 😀
Game play was alright. I found the zero-g zones annoying to navigate personally but open space zones well done but equally annoying in I hate being rushed (but that is the point of course). However, one thing I think was really poorly done is how the weapon system works considering it is actually to your advantage to not carry around more than 2 general purpose weapons with you. This is due to the way ammo drops, if you carry around weapons you don’t use or have only a special purpose then getting ammo drops for them will just hinder you in the end. In fact after I started only carrying the plasma cutter and rifle I had no problems at all with the lack of ammo that I had before.
The game was overall pretty fun and engaging. It wasn’t very difficult to me (I was on medium setting though) however it wasn’t boring either. The story was pretty standard but still interesting. Most of the time the mission objectives were about fixing something or finding something which was pretty average and nothing really stands out about that. As someone who likes to know where to go fast I really appreciated the “b” button in this game which gave a nice blue line pointing me where to go. I’d recommend this game to anyone who likes this genre.
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I remember trying to play this game, chickening out in the first 2 minutes, then I asked my brother to play it for me, he outright refused saying it was scary as shit lol
Yeah, I know right? I should have just thrown in a Ranka in there somewhere. lol The game really wasn’t all that scary after a while though to me, but I also found if you drown out most of the sounds with something (like listening to a pod cast in the background) it helps a whole lot. 😀
I wish I would find the time to play this again. I wasn’t very far yet so I would like to get more into it again. But this month was pretty horrible, I was pretty much swamped with new games.
I do agree with the sound-design though, it is fantastic. It is, in a good way, hard to distinguish between ambient sounds and sounds from actual creatures that are in your room.
What I also enjoyed was that you are not a badass spacemarine equipped with your Pulserifle but just a normal engineer doing things that engineers do. Like fixing computers or getting machines back online. The lack of an intruding HUD is also pretty cool I thought.
All together I can say that while I’m usually not one for horror-games I enjoyed this so far. Hopefully I get to finish it soon and move on to the second game.
Thank you again for gifting it to me. =)
Your welcome, Thank you for Mass Effect I am enjoying it at the moment and already bought the second one since it went on sale on Amazon this week.
I have to say though one thing about these kinds of games is that even though your a normal person you manage to survival and kill all these monsters (and use advanced weapons) while highly trained military people all die instantly to them which I find silly. I mean I suppose there is no way around that but still… I think the second dead space is even better and improves upon this game in every way so far which might be bad for you if you hate being scared to death (I am open to doing coop still though).
One thing that annoys me about dead space 2 is they give you your choice of any or all the weapons near the beginning and they are even better than the normal counterparts. I think it was because of something they messed up with the game a while back, I don’t remember what they did, and as a make up for that I guess they gave everyone this but I think it kind of ruined it in a way but I suppose it’s not horrible.
I do remember the last bit. As far as I remember there was supposed to be DLC content for the PC version but, like you said, they messed it up and nobody got it.
And when they fixed it their brilliant idea was to give every player access to it right
from the start. It’s a bit pointless to make a horror-game but then overpower
the player-character that much that there really is no need to actually feel
scared.
But well, there are lots of things wrong when it comes to PC gaming in the recent
time so I guess we chalk that one up as a minor incident.
My back-log never seems to get smaller, there are only ever new games added
to it…
After finishing Dead Space 2 I would like to say it turns out all the stuff at the start didn’t ruin it as much as I thought it would. I almost want to think they balanced the game around it but I doubt it. It’s still scarier than the first one though and still challenging. Honestly partly because like the first game the first weapon you get is a good weapon to use for the whole game so you’re not really upgrading weapons later on, just getting weapons that are good for different scenarios I would call it. Biggest bonus I would have thought was you get more money by nothing having to buy weapons and I was able to fully upgrade 3 weapons but I could have done that in the original as well so I don’t know what to think. I hope you play through both games soon, they really are good imo.
As for the backlog, I always have a backlog of games too although I probably don’t play half as much as you. I suppose I’ve been slowly accepting that I either have to just not complete 100% of content of every game and/or play less games.