I just finished my first playthrough of Dead Space and I am wowed. While I do think that it was a little short the complaints about backtracking seemed to be blown way out of proportion considering the amount of action. Seriously, there is nothing scarier in a game than walking back into a room you knew was safe only to have a disgusting necromorph ambush you from above. Metacritic score is an 89.....I can easily rank this in my top 5 for the year.

is there any sort of new game+ like RE4 had, where you can carry over weapons/upgrades (if there are any). Just trying to figure out if this is worth a buy or if I should borrow it off a friend considering there are so many good games coming out and I'm trying to save money were I can.

One of the best games I've ever played. I would definetly give it my game of the year vote now. There's no way anyone else can match all the quality that's in this game.

i agree,i hhave played dead space on pc,im currently at chapter 8 with just under 7 hours of play,i suspected this game would be short when i got half way through it in under 5 hours


none the less i would nominate it for game of the year with out a doubt,i mean come on what is gonna take it on ??

Hi!
My first post on Metacritic, but I am a longtime lurker.

I felt the need to register after playing Deadspace, and reading the somewhat underwhelming reviews on the game.

For me this game is hands down the Game Of The Year. I'm a multi-platform gamer that dabbles with multiple types of games. And no other game has had me this involved in a good year or so.

Sure you can see many of the obvious inspirations for the game come through but I don't think it ever comes off as overly cliché'd.

And aren't all great works of fiction all somewhat inspired by other great works of fiction anyhow?

Pros:
-Very immersive, often made me feel somewhat claustrophobic.
-Solid Graphics
-Stellar sound production. I have 5.1 SS system, but played this using my Tritton AX360 headphones and WOW did I ever feel jumpy!
-Fun Weapons.
-Great Death Scenes.
-The teaser Animated Comics, and the Anime feature length movie which explain a lot of the plot. This, IMO, is the future of gaming, and I hope that more and more gaming companies will take cues from that.

Cons:
-Somewhat short storyline, I think about 20 hours of gameplay for a FPS/TPS is perfect.
-Isaac doesn't speak.

A Xbox360 must have for any fans of horror, sci fi, and shooters.

Dead Space is easily in my top two favorite games (My top 5 games are in my signature). I love the ending, I want to talk about it but I wouldn't want to spoil the ending for anyone that hasn't beaten it . What's your favorite weapon? Mine is my fully upgraded pulse rifle and I love level 6 armor, looks a little too much like storm trooper armor though.

i completely agree...it's my favorite game of the year...it's also the scariest game i've ever played

Might have been a bit short, but who cares. It looked gorgeous on my mediocre laptop, great game, great story, and I'll admit that one or two late nights playing it there were a couple of parts that made me jump

I really thought it was good and really fun to play. The story line was pretty generic and/or cliche but it was still fun. There really isn't a whole lot of innovation in the story, I think that's pretty much my only real problem with the game, but I thought it was really a lot of fun. A bit short too.

i was wowed to....



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i would give this a 9 out of 10. its been about 6 months since i played it so its not fresh in my mind but i remeber it is a classic. one of the best next gen games out there

9 is a very respectable score, and for me I couldn't think of a reason not to give it a 10. It's definitely one of the sleeper hits from last year and if you can get it cheap right now, say $30 or so off ebay or something, it's very much worth it.

I love Dead Space it is a mostly fast but some times slow game it has so fucked up thing that will scare the shit right out of you i give the game 9.2 out of 10

Dead Space 2 for X-Box 360 also won several IGN awards.

in my top 3 of all time (including half life 2 + both episodes and still deciding what # 3 is). this games was better than Resi 4 in terms of thrills, but resi's a little outdated and ive beaten it a few times, and if it weren't for resi 4 there would probably not be dead space, because of the aiming. but the aiming was much better in dead space than resi 5 and... im gonna stop talking and tell everyone i know to buy it and watch the best video game ending ive ever seen. they should have more survival horror games on the psp if they don't make a second.