Dead Space is one of the best horror games this century
Dead Space starts out with you and 3 other people, and your ship crashes. You soon find out that the place you landed on is infested with a crazy zombie beast and you have to kill them and get out of that place! This leads to one of the weaker points of Dead Space, the story.
The story is OK but we've all seen this before. I would love to see a horror game that doesn't involve zombies. Sure, this game is one of the best horror games I've ever layed eyes on, but still, I want a new horror storyline! Kinda like Condemned. That game was just some bums beating the hell out of you and other bums -- it was just plain fun. :) Although the story isn't very original, the weapons sure as heck are.
I'm gonna start off with the "Plasma Cutter". It's the main weapon of the game and one of the funnest. There's three laser beams coming out the end of the gun. You can use them to shoot off the limbs of the enemies which is the main way to kill them. You don't just shoot it in the body, arms, and legs just to kill that crazy thing. Well just shooting the arms and head off will do the job. You'll still probably find yourself wanting to shoot off all the limbs just to see the bloody gory-ness of this great game.
The graphics and gameplay are stunning. You really have no HUD. Your health bar is on your back and your map can be accessed by pressing the select button. I've really never ran into any frame-rate drops. I was surprised by that because of the many enemies that would be on the screen at one time.
The lighting is so great, I've pretty much got to give it a paragraph of it's own. The lighting was very well done and added more horror to this already horrific (Like scary horrific, not Fable II Pub Games horrific) game. Flashing white lights that go on and off, are just incredibly terrifying. Also, you'll run into times where you'll not see an enemy then suddenly, the lights go off, a crazy sound starts playing, and there is a beast right in front of you and ready to kill you.
Singleplayer: 5 stars
Multiplayer: ~NONE~
Re-play value: Dead Space has no online and I don't really see how they could've fit co-op in it. But this game will probably still be a game that should have multiple play-throughs. It has trophy support so all you PS3 people (me) can still have a blast earning all the trophies.
Re-play value: 4 stars
End It! All-in-all Dead Space is one of the greatest horror games of all time and is easily worth a buy from near anybody.
