So, take one large claustrophobic ship and lashings of atmosphere from Alien, dispense of the singular beastie and multiply it by a billion like James Cameron did with Aliens, then add some interesting weaponry, methods to kill said beasties and a protagonist from the Gordon Freeman school of total silence and you near enough have a winning formula on your hands. That is, borrow heavily from already- established amazing sources and add new shit to help make a unique title. Stranded and slightly pissed off that his girlfriend may have become one of these slathering beasties, Isaac Clarke picks up the nearest plasma cutter for 12 stages of sheer terror and Necromorph blasting whilst trying to piece together just what in blue hell has happened on board the Ishimura.Īll sounds a bit B-movie on paper, but luckily Dead Space is from a similar school as the rather amazing Uncharted series. Instead they promptly crash land in the Ishimura’s landing bay like a bunch of inept goofs only to find themselves the next batch of baying victims for the deformed humanoid creatures on board that have seemingly replaced the Ishimura’s crew. After intercepting a distress signal from the mining vessel USG Ishimura, the engineering crew of the USS Kellion arrive to investigate the circumstances surrounding the ship’s subsequent silence. This presumably had gone walkabout and relocated to EA Redwood Shores whom were putting the finishing touches to a new breed of terror – the brown-trouser inducing Dead Space, the saviour of survival-horror! Well, almost…ĭead Space’s plot is a simple one. It was sad to see this once great series relying on the brand to sell rather than the previously awesome and often terrifying gameplay. companion and quick-time event sequences that were, to be fair, complete shit. Resident Evil for so long the standard by which all other survival-horrors were measured, suffered a distinct lack of survival and horror in its fifth outing (and tension, atmosphere and thrills to be honest) but did the utmost to make up for these failings with an irritating A.I. Shortly after the release of the PS3 it looked like survival-horror had gone tits up on the new-fangled system.
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