Dead Space - Ride The Spaceship To Hell
Let's face it. Electronic Arts isn't actually known for producing genre-significant games. In fact, EA is known for exactly the contrary: amateurish games which were on one occasion deliberated as surefire success. For Holiday, 2008, however, EA may very well have the premium release of a new-found and fresh title in its recent history since becoming an almost-monopoly.
I'm referring about Dead Space, an endurance horror game like no other.
Truly, there have been survival horror games before. Alone in the Dark, of course, devised the genre. Resident Evil and its many chapters cultured and perfected this niche. The Silent Hill chains took it for a spin and established the concept of psychological horror, which was sent to the advanced height by games like Fatal Frame.
So what makes Dead Space any special?
First and foremost, Dead Space doesn't take place in an old abandoned manor or a city ransacked by currently-made zombies. Dead Space happens in, where else, space.
Think of Alien. Think of Sigourney Weaver being hunted by the brood in a rocketship that has been deprived of {life|existence|living. Think of this automation completed to a tee.
Think of crazed,transformed, and absolute vile crew members replacing aliens. Think of pure, untainted vileness straight from the guts of hell. Think of a sole navy having to fend of these repulsive entities. Think of grotesque forces and even more grotesque circumstances.
It's the threatening hostility and the haunting dread that makes Dead Space the upcoming radical step in the survival horror kind. Definitely, we shouldn't forget about the enormous, controlling ammunitions, the abundant serving of brutality, and the variety of mutilated body parts.
Dead Space is said to be so brutal that it had to go through some mendings solely to acquire an allowable M ranking from the ESRB. Its planned box art, a visual of a mutilated body part hanging in space and a tribute to the mutilated finger that was utilized in the advertisements for the film Saw, has been faced with so much condemnation that an alternate box art is being made.
Upon the issuance of Dead Space, the survival horror variety will in no way be the same again. As the introductory statement in Star Trek goes, "to go where no man has gone before."
Well, Dead Space will go where no survival horror game has dared venture before. And we'll be there for one hell of a ride, plainly speaking that is.
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