zardoz555 User Info

January 28, 2009 6:55:43 PM

I agree with the posts above that said they got into Dead Space right away, I did as well. I did not experience the "slow burn" Scott did, but everyone doesn't have the same experience.

(Spoiler warning!!!) One thing that I found really annoying was the spoiler given away in the achievements. The Chapter 11 achievement gave away a huge part of the plot! Since there were only a few humans in the story I now knew what was going to happen, it was just a matter of who would betray me. Many game's achievements require that you collect all of item x, etc throughout the course of the game so I checked the achievements early in the game and saw it. Please don't do it in Dead Space 2!!! (End of spoilers).

Another thing I didn't like was that if you change the difficultly level after you beat the game you lose all of your weapons, upgrades, etc. Why? I played through the game twice to max every weapon and my suit and now I can't use them on the harder difficulty settings? Also, the shooting the asteroids sections was difficult for me (yeah I'm getting old, ha ha). It seemed kind of out of place game play wise.

Despite my nitpicks above, for me Dead Space was one of the best games released last year. You could tell that tons of time, polish and care were put into the game. The graphics, sound, gameplay were all very done and they combined to give a great gaming experience. I can't wait for Dead Space 2! Keep up the good work EA Redwood and keep giving us new IP EA!! (Just don't release it during the xmas release crowd next time.)