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Nope/ Slightly / Some of them / Get out of here!

The horror genre has a lot of games on its hand, but one of the most important based in the outer space is Isaac Clarke’s adventure, also known as Dead Space. It still managed to scare me despite its releasing was many years ago so… It’s amazing!

The addition of Necromorphs to a list of enemies that scare the shit out of the player was an important hit in the industry, considering how creepy they are. On top of that, the game uses a great coordination when speaking of jumpscares: the combination of lights out and scary music achieves a high level of fear. With said feeling comes an unnecessary waste of bullets, care if you’re new in this genre, pal! However, experienced players won’t have this problem, but mostly the casuals will (like me). Said that, I was sometimes short on ammo, but never on air. Guess there were too many air cans to use, and I sold them to the shop to buy ammunition. Day 375, still no regrets.

People on the walls know exactly what’s going on here

Talking about the mechanics, Isaac movements are kind of sloppy and could have been smoother. We have, anyway, the premise that he’s only an engineer who hasn’t been trained to fight. Fair point on that, but the animations still feel odd. Another not-so-good feature of Dead Space is the logs we can “read” have a ridiculous small size which makes my eyes to cry blood.

Even hell must be less scary

There’s no such thing as the perfect game, but Dead Space is damn a catchy one for the time it was developed. An amazing atmosphere attracts the player to a fight for the own survival, ensuring the presence of the dangerous, outer space: levels with limited oxygen, stressful monsters chasing us, puzzles to solve under pressure… And everything goes always wrong. Poor, poor Isaac. His degree didn’t come with a “specialised formation in killing aliens”.

About the game design, I can only blame that the last levels have way too much enemies. I understand the game switches the fear goal with the stress one, but wasn’t of my taste. The levels push the player in a different way, far different from the original one. It’s still good, but changes the essence of everything.

Ah… The sweet dead scenes like in Resident Evil 4 but crueler

The plot is quite original, despite containing clichés like the (black) selfish captain. Must I say the meteorite thing and people who idolised aliens as gods is indeed interesting, and hands down for the astounding ending with Nicole leaping into Isaac. Dead Space is amazing and must be played no matter what (even if you’re scared!).