Acres Of Dead Space Cadets - Elle Milano

Advantages: Good horror / survival with great parts to the story. It will make you jump.
Disadvantages: Slightly repetitive. A couple of bugs. A couple of the chapters are very short.

...Dead Space. A survival horror / corridor shooter vaguely akin to Doom 3. When I first saw this game it was second hand, priced at £12 in my local game shop. It had been recommended to me by a friend as being a great game of its genre so I decided to try it. I would have missed out if i hadn't taken his advice. I am usually skeptical of EA games post Battlefield 2 and 2142 for the PC. In my eyes EA are able to churn out amazing games, only to be rendered almost unplayable by a horrific amount of bugs. Not to say that Dead Space is without them, there was a couple of instances where enemies got trapped or made unable to move by the scenery, but that just made it easier for me. Other than that there has been nothing of note that hindered my gameplay, which is a nice surprise. You play Issac Clarke who is an engineer sent to the Mining... Read review

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Advantages: Making corpses burst apart in Zero-Gee!
Disadvantages: Horror and enemies get rather repetitive.

...Dead Space!!! Remember when you were young? I know it's difficult, but try and cast your mind back to when you could only reach the top shelf in the kitchen with the aid of a chair and the thing foremost in your mind was whether your parents would let you keep the dog you found with no teeth. There were a lot of things back then which I felt were unfair, but the biggest were the chores. 'Wash the dishes!' 'Mow the lawn!' 'Clean the toilet!' ... The rather long-winded point I'm making is that Dead Space manages to take me back to those years. The story: You are an engineer by the name of Isaac Clarke who is sent to investigate what has happened to a mining ship called the Ishimura. When your ship touches down you find yourself split up from the others and sent off to fix the monorail system on the Ishimura which has become broken... Read review

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Advantages: * Deeply engrossing story * Breathtaking visuals and nerve-wracking audio
Disadvantages: * Repetitive mission objectives * Close-quarters combat is troublesome.

...deal with undead space mutants, others still have heavily armored but vulnerable from behind, where as scorpion like tails that will leap at you. One of the first things to notice in Dead Space is that it features a complete lack of a traditional heads up display, instead information is integrated into Isaac's rig uniform, to see his current health you may only glance at his meter to the rigs spine, and to see how much ammo's left in you weapon, simply check the display read out visible when every you raise it to a engage position. Menu's are holographic projected in front of you real time, producing a sense of urgency as you remain venerable to attack. This simple yet injeanious systems insure that u only remain in the realm of the game world at all times preserving to horror experience. As you explore the many decks of the Ishimura... Read review

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