Dead Space - Survival Horror is Back

Dead Space is a third-person Sci-Fi survival horror game that takes place in space on the USG Ishimura. The player controls Isaac Clarke, an engineer sent with his small maintenance crew to repair the USG Ishimura when it becomes stranded in space. However, neither Isaac nor his team know what lays in wait for them. An alien race known as the "Necromorphs" have taken over the ship and infected the entire crew. What makes this threat different is the fact that the Necromorphs are highly adaptive. When one has its legs cut off, it simply switches to walking using its arms, or other appendages.

This adaptability leads to the game's biggest feature: dismemberment. Dead Space focuses on having you, the player, using Issac's main weapon, a plasma cutter, to deal with the enemies, and the different ways they act. For example, cutting off a creature's head will make it thrash blindly for the player, but going for the legs might disable it permanently. Players will also have to avoid "pregnant" necromorph's bellies. Doing so will result in many small necromorphs appearing swarming Isaac These considerations must be taken for all of the enemies that Isaac encounters.

The story is told mostly through video/audio logs, in the vain of BioShock. Although, cutscenes will undoubtedly be used as well. Little is known about the story, aside from the general synopsis above. More will be known soon, though, as the game launches this October for PC, PS3, and 360 from EA's Redwood Shores studio.

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# Dismemberment: This game's core mechanic is the strategic dismemberment of alien appendages. In true survival horror fashion, you must conserve ammo - in true Hollywood horror fashion, it's all about seeing bone fragments and arterial spray fly across the room. Enemies in the game are resilient. The conventional wisdom that a headshot will stop an alien is thrown out in Dead Space.
# Setting and Atmosphere: Dead Space is an immersive, interactive horror movie experience. An emergent, panic-inducing audio system, an innovative Minority Report-style HUD, and a nuanced, scary pace that will sink you into the game experience.
# Unique Weaponry: Stasis Gun is used to slow charging aliens and to help solve puzzles. The mavity Gun and unique projectile-based weaponry are mining tools - your ability to upgrade weapons increases as you progress through the game.
# Zero mavity: Survive and destroy the aliens in Zero G environments. Manipulate mavity with Havok physics to solve puzzles and fight enemies.

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The players must fight their way through various levels of a stricken mining ship, which has been infested with an alien species known as the 'Necromorphs'. The game features an 'over the shoulder' third-person perspective, similar to games such as Resident Evil 4 and Gears of War. The interface does not feature a traditional 'heads up display'. Instead, information is relayed to the player via lights and translucent screens which hover over Isaac's weapons and armor

The player will encounter weightless and decompressed environments, which Isaac can navigate using a pressurized suit equipped with magnetic boots. Some levels will even lead out onto the surface of the ship's hull. Floating debris will present a hazard, and Isaac can lose his footing and simply float off into space. In keeping with Isaac's profession as an engineer rather than a soldier, weapons in the game are mostly improvised, and consist of an array of bolt cutters, stasis guns and rudimentary energy weapons.

Combat in the game is complicated by the fact that Necromorphs are not simply rendered 'dead' after a certain number of rounds have been fired at them. Rather, they can adopt new stances and tactics, and even sprout new limbs, based upon where they have been wounded. Hence, the player must find and exploit specific weak points. The game's Executive Producer, Glen Schofield, has said that 'the primary theme of Dead Space is dismemberment', and early previews of the game have noted the high levels of gore.

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Dead Space is a feature length horror/sci-fi animated movie based on the much anticipated Electronic Arts video game.

When a deep space mining operation discovers a mysterious alien Marker, some believe they have finally found evidence of our creators. However, the removal of the Marker instead unleashes a horrific alien species, which had been entombed within a remote planet, and a desperate fight for survival ensues.

Dead Space follows a select group of miners and crew members, as they confront a grotesque and lethal invasion unlike anything ever seen before.

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Episode 1 - WATCH - 7:18
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NokkonWud said:

Thank you for the quality of your OP Robert, absolutely fantastic.
Are you doing them yourself or copying them from somewhere else?

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Robert1986 said:

I just gather info from the net and organize it myself. Took 20 minutes.

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Xink said:

imformative thread, this type of game doesnt really appeal to me though, sounds like some intuitive game mechanics but how well this will work is yet to be seen

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