Dead Space

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• In the mouth of madness: StoryThe plot is an esoteric space nightmare. Shortly after the arrival on board the crippled vessel, Hell breaks loose. The craft is destroyed, you are stranded on the Ishimura. The Necromorphs kill most of your team and separate you from the surviving members. Even worse, the ship and its systems have started to be corrupted or are failing thanks to the Necromorphic infestation. The ship, the different decks, the crazy survivors are the real protagonist of the story, more than Isaac and his team. The spaceship Ishimura is a huge labyrinth with a Metroidvania structure. Just watching the blueprint of the ship on the map gives you a headache. It’s a wonderful devilish sci-fi maze where everything is in the right place and gives deep to the plot. The Ishimura works in silence and silence, as we are in a world of human beings, far from presenting itself, presents the unsaid. The omission of information, you know nothing of what happened or of what it’s happening, the discovery of the disaster cames by exploration and interpretation.
• Into the Void: Gameplay
The game plays in in the third person, Isaac has a lot of similarity with “Leon” of Resident Evil 4. Both move in the same way, shooting, managing the stretch inventory, trying to survive an enemy that moves in the shadow, attacks by surprise and doesn’t allow you to rest. There is no specific UI and your health is presented on your back, your ammunitions are holographically projected above the gun, and incoming transmissions pop up in front of your face. Everything is done in real-time, even opening the inventory, meaning that a Necromorph can come crawling through the floor or leap from a vent behind you and strike you at any time...or maybe better slaughter you with splatterish fatality animations. Isaac is not a soldier, is an engineer, his weapons are working tools and the munitions are counted. His gear is made by repurposed pieces of mining equipment, so, during the journey, Isaac, can use his engineering knowledge to make these weapons much more powerful. The Necromorphics are an unstoppable force, they can lose two or three limbs and can still follow you and attack you. Sometimes they stay on the ground and you’ll think they are dead. The reality is a harsh surprise. The immersion in the gameplay is rapid, the plot it’s fast to action. The bests and coolest feature of the title are the zero-gravity walks, the stasis that stops time and the telekinesis that allows you to move objects and resolve riddles. All of them are greatly made and I largely enjoyed using them for all the surviving adventure.
• Videodrome: Graphic
Overall the graphic aged magnifically. The atmosphere, the sci-fi context is still creepy. The most impressive things are the Cronember/Carpenter/Lovecraftian horror Necromorphics. Beast of flesh, sons of nightmares and madness. The design of the beasts models is still astonishing after all these years. The interior design of the ship’s decks creates a perfect illusion of variety with a clever reuse of the same texture. The game isn’t heavy at all because it reuses almost all his model all the time.
• The Tone Out of Space: Soundtrack and Audio
Voice acting is excellent across the board despite Isaac never utters a word, during the play you will find a dime a dozen of audio journal log or holographic movie from other survivors, most of them gone crazy. The music is creepy, well made but... is it really needed? It does a great job but almost all the time it feels like something extra. Not necessary. The use of sound is majestic, which is designed to send shivers up the player's spine. Whether it's the skittering through the walls of Necromorphs that are crawling towards you, the screams from the creatures as you blow off their legs, your heartbeat and breathing, the metallic crunches of the ship or the sudden sharp noises released as a jump moment occurs, the sound design in his developing of tension is fantastic and draws you into the game action.

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• Storyside I consider the division in chapters a weak link, it kills the continuity of the plot. After each chapter, you can breathe. It’s a moment of relaxing that kills the immersion. Other than that the mute protagonist is a weak point, Isaac doesn’t speak, he makes noises but nothing more. That kills the protagonist characterization.
• To make it more user friendly the dev chooses to put object missions on the map all the time. I would have loved a more Metroidvania approach to the Ishimura blueprint.
Same for the save points, the decks are filled with them, some to close but never too far. I had prefered less save point but in strategic areas of the ship, to make it more challenging and more survival. Usually, an area with a save point is a free Necromorphics zone, I had loved to play a game where there isn’t a place to hide.
• Ever heard of a game with weak and easy bosses and invincible common enemies?. During the story, you will fight some Necromorphs that you can’t kill. You can only run fast and trick them. I hate the unkillable feature in games because I don’t like the feeling of impotence. In opposition of that the “boss fights” are too easy and mechanic, bosses are giant monsters with sparkly weak points to shot. It’s harder to get to the boss than killing him.
• Gameplay bug side the movements of Isaac are kind of clunky, the aim as well is terrible if you’ll play with mouse and keyboard. I can’t tell you the pain to play it without the gamepad. I switched on the first occasion without regrets. Mouse acceleration makes it unplayable outside some “minigames” areas where you have to shoot some asteroids to save the ship.
The map is a 3D model and it gets buggy in some areas on loading the spaceship decks or putting some of the elements out of view. Can be annoying if you don’t remember the way back or if you need to reach a new objective.

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Dead Space is a terrific game that I had on my library for years. Never played it for being afraid of being afraid. But after ending it I can say that it isn’t that scary. It won’t affect you on some deep, psychological level, and it won’t tease out deep-seated primal fears. It plays on the tension growing and jumps scare type, but in that way, it makes the sci-fi survival horror genre proud with an action that's tense, fast-paced and extremely violent that gets under your skin and makes you shit yourself when you least expect it.