Metareview: Dead Space (Xbox 360, PS3)

I may be in the same boat as you here, pal. I love the Silent Hill series, and enjoyed playing it with all the lights off, sound up. That being said, I would never last too long when doing so :P So Dead Space might take awhile for me.

And I guess if Tuna has one ear, I'll 'take' the other? Too much?

Wow, your avatar belongs in Awesome Town. Full Throttle FTW!

Polecats, FTW.

I've always driven a Corley.

If you want something cool, check out the Full Throttle movie. It's basically all the cinematics in the game spliced together.
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So you'll spend less money on your wife/husband we don't discriminate here...W/e tickles your fancy.

If it were me, i'd save a few for the inevitable summer drought

Summer with Fallout 3 would be nice for many, i think.

Or get your friends to buy some of these then trade with them.

That's how I'm getting my copy of Dead Space.

Yeah Im with you...I always had more than enough Ammo, and a knife.....Plus I was never scared...Sounds like a shooter

PS3 u need trophies and it comes with the downloadable black suit.......Very much better lookin than the 360 suit...See that was easy

Not to start a flamewar here (since I know there are the oddballs out there that prefer the opposite), but why would you want to play a shooting game with the PS3 controller when you can play it with the 360 controller?

That would be almost as odd as preferring to play a fighting game that doesn't have online play with the 360 controller when you could play it with the PS3 one.

Well Vcize u make a good point...Shooters on PS3 do suffer with that damn controller....I cant put my finger on why I hate playing shooters with that thing?

I would say go for the PS3 version. The PS3 was the lead platform in Redwood Shores' development process. The 360 version is gonna be a port.

can be beat in roughly 12 hours, and there's little replay value

par for the course for most games that aren't adventure, RPG, or online.

Who?... those who think that since Dead Space doesn't have gimped controls it's not an actual Survival Horror game. Apparently, "survival" means "fighting the controls to stay alive".

Not necessarily bad controls, but limited skill-set, which can be achieved through deliberately bad controls

Just because some people like there to be no distinction between a horror game and a 3rd-person-shooter doesn't mean that everyone has to.

I personally prefer that games don't use bad controls as a crutch to increase difficulty.... but that's just me.

And what do you mean by no distinction? I hate when people act like all FPS/TPS are the same. They're not. And why should the distinction be shitty controls vs good controls?

Anyway, as far as the genre goes, the "horror" part is obvious. It's clearly a creepy game. The "survival" part is where things get tricky and where RE falls flat on its face. RE uses cheap tactics like bad controls to make things difficult. It also uses limited supplies in situation that don't often make sense. I mean, if you're part of a military squad going to an area where you might be expecting trouble why wouldn't you have a decent supply of ammo with you? Or at least enough to last a while. It's nonsense.

OTOH, Dead Space is apparently about an engineer going to fix a deep space mining ship that is broken down. Then he gets there and finds out all hell has broken loose and must resort to using mining equipment as weapons. Now THAT makes sense. Of course the guy is going to be low on supplies, he wasn't expecting a fight.

I know some people are sold on this idea that poor controls are a staple of the genre, but I just think there are far more creative ways of accomplishing the same effect without using piss poor controls and limited supplies in situations that make no sense.

with my prime acct, i got it the day before :D

Well, expect DRM and a limited number of installs.