Knee-jerk reviews after ten minutes' play-time. As is only right and proper.
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
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
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
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
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
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
