Dead Space (PS3)

Well to start off, this game kept me on edges throughout! It never lets up which keeps you in suspense all the time. The atmosphere and sound design are really top notch. They compliment the mood perfectly. Enemies are hideous and disturbing. Graphically,while the game does have it's own unique style,it easily rivals recent graphical powerhouses such as Resistance 2.The sound quality and voice acting both earn top marks for their effectiveness in creating a dark and desperate atmosphere. You play as a third person as Isaac Clark, and you wear an upgradeable suit that shows your health via illuminated LED lights on the spine of the suit. Very cool. You have a ...  Read the complete review

After hearing rave reviews of this upcoming horror FPS I decided to reserve it in GAME on day of release, and to be honest was expecting the generic horror platform with expectable jumps and gore everywhere. How wrong I was. The first thing you notice when you start playing Dead Space is the atmosphere, set in space, Dead Space offers a weirdly realistic atmosphere, not over doing it but still keeping you interested. Throughout the whole storyline, I was kept sitting on the edge of my seat, suspense filling the air around me and not knowing where the hell my next scare would come from. You take control of the character Isaac Clarke who is sent on a ...  Read the complete review

Typically, I don't really enjoy survival horror games that much. Firstly, I don't find them frightening and secondly without the scares they offer little else. In recent years, they've improved somewhat. Newer incarnations of the Resident Evil series have contributed to the genre significantly while the Silent Hill series still plods along like a relic from the 90s. Last year, publisher EA decided to get in on the game with Dead Space and have gone a long way to bring real scares back. Dead Space follows the actions of an engineer from a team of emergency call-out, starship repair professionals. Arriving at a mining vessel emitting a distress call, the team ...  Read the complete review

This game comes pretty close to watching a horror film, in the sense it is damn scarey! Dead Space will have you trembling on the edge of your seats and wishing you had brought a friend to keep you company. The game was released October 2008 so is relatively new. What makes it work so well into scaring the creeps out of people is its sounds, hence audio. As you move throughout corridors the game is relatively quiet with the scuttling of mutants all around you, moving tiles and knocking items over. It's the not seeing which makes u take extreme caution as you turn the corner. So what's the story? Well in brief you play as Isaac Clarke who, with a ...  Read the complete review

Whilst not new to playing computer games, it would be fair to say I've pretty much been on a break from them for ten years or so - how they've changed! Following my acquisition of a free PS3 (see my www.ipoints.co.uk review) I quickly stocked up on a few games and Deep Space (rated 18) being one of them. The game is set, would you believe in deep space where you take on the role of Isaac who is part of a team sent to find out what is happening on the unresponsive USG Ishimura, a "planet cracker" mining ship. You soon find out that the ship is overrun with "Necromorph" alien monster type things and in order to survive and get off ...  Read the complete review