Dead Space


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The original and terrifying new IP from EA cribs tricks from all the greats of survival horror's past, but manages to do it so well that it doesn't really matter. The action and controls are fantastic, and the atmosphere and monsters will get under your skin. We wish there was more of the original stuff, like the inventive Zero G sections, but we can live with this, since it might be the best game of this type since Resident Evil 4.

Available on: PS3, PC , iPad , iPhone , Xbox 360
Genre: Action
Release date: October 14, 2008
Published by: EA GAMES 
Developed by: EA Redwood Shores 
Franchise: Dead Space
Multiplayer Modes:
Offline
1 player Solo
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Latest Stories
The Top 7… Mentally damaged characters we love
The Top 7… Mentally damaged characters we love
Because everyone loves a fixer-upper
PS3 News - Oct 10, 2011
 
The vilest enemy races of all time
The vilest enemy races of all time
The good, the bad and the ugly ... minus the good
PS3 News - Mar 05, 2011
 
Dead Space animated feature and graphic novel announced
Dead Space animated feature and graphic novel announced
Dead Space Salvage and Dead Space Aftermath timed to release just before the videogame sequel
PS3 News - Jul 23, 2010
 
7 things we want from Dead Space 2
7 things we want from Dead Space 2
Why Isaac's second scarefest needs more memorable enemies and loads of hoverboot bits
PS3 News - Mar 29, 2010
 
 
Latest Comments
tbelstler  - 8 months, 3 weeks
I am in the middle of playing Dead Space 1 on my PS3. While I am not a video game expert I am seriously disappointed in this game. I would rate it a 5 out of 10 and the reason is that I get killed so often and most of the time it takes forever to die and then another eternity to get resurrected and then, to top it all off, you can wind up doing most of the stuff you did just before you got killed all over again. I'm on chapter 4 and by now have probably spent 2 hours waiting to die and be resurrected. I just finished both versions of Bioshock and liked them much better. You get killed and bang, your back, very near the scene of your demise. I am seriously thinking of just trading it in for a copy of Amnesia.
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Features
The Top 7… Mentally damaged characters we love
Because everyone loves a fixer-upper
Oct 07, 2011
The vilest enemy races of all time
The good, the bad and the ugly ... minus the good
Mar 04, 2011
7 things we want from Dead Space 2
Why Isaac's second scarefest needs more memorable enemies and loads of hoverboot bits
Mar 29, 2010
Gaming's freakiest monsters: A biological study
An attempt to explain the most bizarre creatures in games
Oct 28, 2009
Stupid game terminology
We translate baffling game phrases. Apparently, a Trimodal Ectosphere is a blob
Jun 17, 2009
Guns that don’t shoot bullets
Shark gun, lightning gun, black hole gun, electric ninja star gun, lava gun…
May 06, 2009
The Top 7... game religions
We blindly follow gaming's scheming cults, faiths and God-botherers
May 06, 2009
The Top 7... Annoying nags that need to STFU
The champion ear-benders that should stop talking
Mar 30, 2009
The Top 7… worst games in great games
Because playing bad games in good games breaks our brain
Feb 12, 2009
Behind the scenes of gaming's great soundtracks
Getting the world to take game music seriously, one note at a time
Jan 28, 2009
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News
Dead Space animated feature and graphic novel announced
Dead Space Salvage and Dead Space Aftermath timed to release just before the videogame sequel
Jul 23, 2010
200 Edge covers in 20 seconds
Video: Celebrate the mag's 200th issue with 200 unique covers
Mar 06, 2009
New Dead Space screens
Shiny, high-res terror awaits you inside
Jun 18, 2008
Dead Space to shock on Halloween
EA's horror-fest set for simultaneous launch in NA and Europe
Feb 26, 2008
No pause option for Dead Space?
EA toys with dropping the Pause option in its horror action game
Feb 11, 2008
Dead Space gorefest - new shots
EA's sci-fi survival horror game looking like The Thing in space
Dec 03, 2007
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Review
Dead Space
Welcome to the new Rapture...
Oct 14, 2008
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Previews
LGC 08: Why wait? Leipzig's biggest games reviewed NOW!
Knee-jerk reviews after ten minutes' play-time. As is only right and proper
Aug 26, 2008
Knee-jerk reviews after ten minutes' play-time. As is only right and proper. » Read Full Dead Space preview
Dead Space - hands-on
Two new blood-basted areas have our full attention
May 16, 2008
The first Dead Space walkthrough we attended wowed us with grotesque monsters right out of The Thing and an oppressive atmosphere that screamed Alien, so the skeleton of a great game seemed intact. However, we couldn't go all-out crazy for the game until we sat down and blasted some otherworldly creatures for ourselves; now that we have, our pre-emptive excitement is one step closer to validation. We're happy to report, based on » Read Full Dead Space preview
Dead Space - updated hands-on
In your parent's basement, no one can hear you scream
Mar 03, 2008
EA have clearly been shamefully stealing furtive glances over the shoulders of their peers before furiously scribbling borrowed ideas into their code for Dead Space, but the end result is clever, engaging and wonderfully scary. So, are you ready for a hands-on report based entirely on increasingly wavering comparisons? You are? Then let’s go!Dead Space is a bit like Event Horizon, placing you on a ship, the USG Ishimura, that’s » Read Full Dead Space preview
Dead Space
Filling the void with horror
Jan 11, 2008
Jan 11, 2008 No need to be very afraid with this one - at least, not as far as the games quality is concerned. Two of our correspondents have sat down for extensive run-throughs of Dead Space; both have come back from EA HQ with good words tumbling from their slack-jawed mouths. Its hard to believe that no one has thought to mine the ‘haunted house in space theme for a videogame project before this, given that theres an entire bloated genre of this stuff in » Read Full Dead Space preview
Hands-on: Dead Space
World's first play of astro-shocker
Dec 04, 2007
Dec 4, 2007 A worrying clanging noise began building in volume aboard the Ishimura, the vessel serving as the setting for Event Horizon-ish galactic horrorfest Dead Space. We were warned. “Be careful, this is LOUD”, guffawed Glen Schofield, Executive Producer on the game. Even so, we werent quite prepared for the hurricane that came out of the speakers the first time we came up against the Necromorphs, and we nearly deposited the coffee wed been drinking directly onto EAs plush » Read Full Dead Space preview
Dead Space
The future of survival horror chokes our pants with poo
Oct 08, 2007
Oct. 9, 2007 Lo and behold, EA makers of all things sequel, all things licensed, are set to unleash an original IP on us. So rarely does the behemoth publisher step out from behind its annual release schedule, we were all a little shocked that this bold foray would be so uncharacteristically, well, mature. From what we've seen of Dead Space, a futuristic survival horror game (or a "sci-fi horror" as the devs are aptly calling it) set largely on an infested ship is looking to take full » Read Full Dead Space preview
Dead Space: first 12 shots
First look at EA's Alien-styled survival horror
Sep 24, 2007
Sept 24, 2007 EA has fomally announced Dead Space, a brand new sci-fi survival horror that's being billed as videogame imagining of Event Horizon and Alien. Check out the first 12 screens here. Having seen the short teaser 'movie' over at the official website, we can confim (at least in this clip) it's looking as gory as the developer is promising - just check out the hurl level of the decomposing corpse. The game's lead character is introduced as Isaac Clarke, a space-station repair guy on » Read Full Dead Space preview
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ESRB Rating
Dead Space is rated:
Mature
Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language
 
PEGI Rating
Dead Space is rated:
18+
Violence, Bad Language