PopCultureShock :: Comics : Games : Movies : Lifestyle » Dead Space http://www.popcultureshock.com Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:16:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Halloween Gaming: Remembering Dead Space http://www.popcultureshock.com/halloween-gaming-dead-space-deserves-honor/52670/ http://www.popcultureshock.com/halloween-gaming-dead-space-deserves-honor/52670/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:48:29 +0000 Shola Akinnuso http://www.popcultureshock.com/?p=52670 Was Dead Space too intense? Probably the closest thing you’ll find to an 8 hour horror movie, Dead Space was arguably one of the most visceral gaming experiences of 2008. It wasn’t the sales success that Electronic Arts had hoped, but in a crowded holiday season of excellent titles, the mature and brutally cinematic game might’ve been too much for the average consumer to take in.

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Now a year removed, and Dead Space hasn’t aged a bit. Retailing for $19.99 (PC, Xbox 360, & PS3), and with Halloween around the corner, you owe it to yourself to check out what I personally considered one of my most traumatic experiences in the last few years. If you consider yourself a fan of horror, think of Dead Space as an interactive assault. Terrifying throughout the entire 8 hour campaign, Dead Space is one of the few games that got an honest emotional reaction out of me. You’re isolated on the U.S.S. Ishimura, and the violence that you inflict is so deliberate and gruesome, that it becomes revolting. Seriously. I really want to give a full spotlight review of this year old game, but I believe that the attached Dead Space: Top 5 Deaths video I found on YouTube (thanks Bitmob) says it better than anything I could type.

If fear excites you, get ready for an adrenaline rush. Dead Space is a gaming-cinematic masterpiece, and the gap between movie and interactive gaming is paper thin. This is a Hollywood production through-and-through. In this tough economy, 19.99 is one of the most compelling arguments around to pick up one of the best games you’ll play this year….or ever.

]]> http://www.popcultureshock.com/halloween-gaming-dead-space-deserves-honor/52670/feed/ 1 Dead Space Ships http://www.popcultureshock.com/dead-space-ships/44610/ http://www.popcultureshock.com/dead-space-ships/44610/#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:49:00 +0000 Howard Brown http://www.popcultureshock.com/?p=44610 EA’s sci-fi horror, Dead Space, has shipped to retail. Marking the first title of its kind for the company, EA has big expectations for the title and from what we’ve played of it so far they have good reason to.

Set five hundred years in the future, Dead Space follows the story of Isaac Clarke, a normal systems engineer, who is sent with a small repair team to restore communications aboard an immense mining ship, the USG Ishimura. Once onboard the vessel, Isaac discovers that the crew has unearthed an ancient and malevolent alien presence far beneath the planet’s surface and brought it onboard. It’s a living nightmare onboard the Ishimura, which has turned into a floating bloodbath, as the crew has been unspeakably mutilated and infected by an ancient alien scourge. Clarke’s repair mission becomes one of survival as he fights not just to save himself, but to return the artifact to the planet at any cost.

Dead Space is available now for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. Look for more here soon, on PopCultureShock.

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