Dead Space (PS3)

Sci-Fi survival horror, never thought it could be this good!

Dead Space puts you in the shoes of Isaac, an engineer who's task is to repair a communication error with the Ishimura, a huge space ship. Once landing on the ship you find out that somethin bad happened here, blood everywhere and not a single crew member to be found. Isaac gets separated from his team members soon and is on his own now, trying to find out what happened on the ship and how to get off.

First thing you notice are the graphics and sounds. The game looks good, the environments are worked out well and there are some nice graphical effects in the game. The sound really works in this game, walking down a small scary hallway really becomes scary with the sound in Dead Space. Mentioning scary, I've to say Dead Space is sometimes. Monsters coming out of nowhere with alot of noise and great sound effects put me on the front of my seat. Mixing this with alot of blood and bodyparts flying everywhere and you know what you're playing.

The game plays really well, you may need to get used to some controls and using the map but when you have there is no problem. The monsters you fight against in this game are dealt with on a special way, most of them you need to dismember which is very cool to do. Isaac's weapons and abilities provides more than enough methods for dealing with the monsters. The weapons in this game are very nice to use and upgrading them through the game make them even better.

The story of Dead Space unfolds nice throughout the game but you should play it for yourself to find out. The best thing about this game IMO is originality. Zero G- zones, Vacuum zones and some other things around the ship are great and I've never seen them in a game before.

Overall Dead Space is a great game, it has great sound, plays well, it's very original and it is scary sometimes. It has a little bit of Bioshock, a little bit of Resident Evil but in the end it stands on his own and is a great game which you must check out.

 

Overall score: 9/10