Dead Space (Xbox 360)

When it comes to video games, i'm normally more a fan of the sporting genre than the first / third person shooter or RPG - give me 'FIFA' or 'Tiger Woods' anyday over 'Call of Duty' or 'Gears of War'. That said, in the past I have enjoyed titles such as the original 'Resident Evil' (which for a time was my favourite ever game) - a classic both in terms of its playability and compelling story. From the late '90's onwards however, I became disillusioned with games from the 'generally mindless shooting' genre, as so many of the recent ones are merely 'Gears of War' clones, becoming gorier with each incarnation in an attempt to appeal to the ever increasing ...  Read the complete review

EA games have gained a bad reputation for releasing rushed, bad games but you would haven't thought that with some of their better games this year. Burnout Paradise, Battlefield: Bad Company and many improved sports games have improved their reputation, but then games like Facebreaker and Mercenaries 2 don't help their reputation either. Dead Space is the latest game from EA, which I honestly thought would suck. It didn't particularly excite me, though I gave it a chance because it looked like 'Alien: The Game'. Thank goodness I did, seriously this game is actually really good. It borrows some stuff from other games, including Resident Evil and Metroid Prime, but for one ...  Read the complete review

Dead Space is a survival-horror third person game that was released in 2008 and is based on a stricken mining ship in space. The player takes control of Isaac Clarke who is a deep space engineer who answers the distress beacon of the mining ship. Once inside it turns out that all is not as it seems and the crew has been turned into vile, disgusting and demented creatures called "Necromorphs" by an unknown organism. The game is played from an over the shoulder perspective and makes ingenious use of Clarke's holographic HUD to display important details like maps, inventory and so forth. Gameplay When faced with the reanimated corpses ...  Read the complete review

It's been awhile since the prospect of an upcoming game made me fidget and restless with anticipation but Dead Space was one of those games. Comic-based storyline, thrashed together with bold aspects of gameplay makes Dead Space a breath of fresh air in terms of it's graphics, idealology and play. The gameplay pushes a real and definate evolvement in the scare-factor and can unnerve even the most hardened of gamers and horror fanatics, with mysterious and subtle clanking and machinary, barely audible whispers and the unwelcome chants and songs of the ever known nursery rhymes. The best news? That you are on a disabled spaceship, there is no help and no escape ...  Read the complete review

This is a shoot 'em up style game, where you become the character of Isaac, who gets separated from the other members of his rescue ship by quarantine doors and must navigate a ship that has been taken over by aliens in order to survive. The quality of the graphics is acceptable, they're not the best I've seen on 360 games, but they're much better than some of the older games. The video clip is particularly poor and is neither cartoon style, nor good enough to be classed as life like. The gameplay is not to my liking at all. Firstly you have to play in the third person mode, which is just plain horrible. I haven't played much lately apart from ...  Read the complete review