Trivia 1001 Video Games Dead Space appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott. What a marriage!Īll of my favourite horror games plagiarized to perfectionĮA shows they're still capable of original thinking. Hollywood-style Production Value meets Survival Horror. User Reviews Dead Space, where even a soft whisper can make you pee yourself.Īlthough its story is lacking a crucial element, Dead Space is a compelling and thrilling action horror. Workbenches can be used to upgrade Isaac's weapons and armor. Ammo and tools can be found during exploration or purchased in automatic shops available on the ship. A few sections in the game have Isaac float in a zero gravity environment. Isaac can also use special abilities, allowing him to slow down enemies or pick up and throw items from a distance. All the weapons feature a secondary fire mode for example, the plasma cutter can be rotated to cut off vertical limbs more efficiently. Many of the weapons in the game are improvised mining tools, such as a rotary saw, a plasma cutter, a hydrazine torch used as a flamethrower, and others. Wounding a particular part of the Necromorph's body may either allow the player to kill it, make it change attack patterns, or even become more dangerous.

Combat heavily relies on the so-called 'strategic dismemberment', which forces the player to cut off limbs or parts of the Necromorphs to defeat them. Controlling Isaac, the player explores the ship, fighting reanimated corpses known as Necromorphs.

Isaac is the only one who would know how to fix them, and his two companions send him on a mission to find out a way to bring things back to normal, and discover the truth behind the horrible events.ĭead Space is a third-person sci-fi shooter with elements of survival horror. It looks like the ship is barely able to sustain its existence, many of its systems critically damaged. Only three people survive, among them an engineer named Isaac Clarke. The crew is attacked by terrifying monsters. Another ship is sent to investigate the causes of the signal however, as it attempts to dock with the Ishimura, it crashes into it because of a system malfunction. Not an American user? DescriptionThe starship USG Ishimura sends out a distress signal to the Concordance Extraction Corporation during a mining operation on the planet Aegis VII.

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