She showed me the beginning and intros of the game, and of course the system and mechanic. I was really impressed by what EA has done to this game from what I saw and tried. Last time I was impressed by this shameless franchise update churning factory was when Queen Victoria was ruling Britain. Anyway back to the game. The parameters was sort of like Alien so you have extraterrestrial organisms attacking you while you are in an isolated space when attempting to change a desolated planet into a home suitable for humans. To survive you must thread through the Space Station and complete all the missions before time runs out (or life runs out)

Graphics wise it’s brilliant. Very detail and excellent light and shadow effects. Also they use the light effect to the games advantage to give you a scary edge. The controls are very well balanced but strategic – you have to cut off your enemies’ limbs to stop them from getting back up. The dismembered bodies will roll around and follow you in the space though. So to save ammo you will need to do precise surgery on your enemies. Lucky enough you got some Kinesis power to slow fast enemies down. So the game proceed in that way.

However, the biggest treat you get was a frustrating mission where you need to shoot asteroids the came in like swam of bees with a stupid cannon that moves in a way to make sure that you miss a lot and get caned. If you die you will see your character die a dramatic death with his body thrown to the floor. Cool eh? Not after you’ve seen it for 10 million times in 48 consecutive hours. The problem is you don’t have that much health and then the asteroids are very fast and the number is so huge that they just occupy every single polygon that the PS3 can process. So while you are busily shooting, you will find yourself on a death roll already. Adding to that is your stupid partner kept on asking you to give him more time and while you got distracted by his sweet voice, it is the call of death – for the 10 millionth time.

To be honest, I was completely disappointed by EA at this point that I wish EA will tank itself into this same Dead Space that it created. The game was so promising and fun up to this point and they have to ruin it by putting in such a mission. Whoever created this mission should be forced to do that for 2 years consecutively so that he will learn the lesson of never to do so.

So, if you are up for a ridiculous challenge that will spoil your gaming experience get it out and try it. But make sure you have all your furniture soft padded or you will need to fork out more cash to replace your controller one after another. Definitely a game for the rich and jobless – maybe Paris Hilton and her boyfriends.
Rating: 2 / 5

Dead Space is definitely the combination of a few other works, namely The Thing and Event Horizon. And it is incredibly immersive. The graphics are pretty (not the prettiest however… as it is ported for all systems and not optimized for the PS3), and the sound is diverse but rather chaotic, as random crests of volume will rise up unexpectedly (sort of obnoxious) when there’s nothing around.

The controls are very “clunky” and the small hallways and spaces make the game feel like a 3d variant of Pacman. The over the shoulder camera is annoying as well and blocks content on the left hand side of your screen. The game is praised for not having a HUD to detract from screen space, but the character’s body blocks half the screen and acts as the hud. In small hallways this becomes an annoyance quickly.

The game is good if you know what you’re buying but I don’t think it’s anything earth shattering, and no A or A+ game. It’s resident evil in a space ship and with new physics and a lot more tentacles. I call it a $35 dollar game, but not a $60 game. I’d wait a couple of months and then buy for the holidays.
Rating: 3 / 5