And while Dead Space offers this same idea, it executes it much differently, elevating the emotion of horror. It’s just you and the various hisses and hums of pipes surrounding you nothing but the cold steel of the station’s infrastructure nothing but the dead bodies surrounding you, and the Necromorphs trailing you from the shadows.įor action games it is common to maintain a high speed in aggression games will provide many opportunities to throw waves of enemies at the player, allowing them to swing their sword or shoot away.
Even considering the initial Necromorph attack, the creature pursues you without skipping a beat and once you finally escape it, you’re left alone in a foreign place without your crew. Even from the moment you enter the Ishimura there’s an air of dread from the damaged rooms and smeared blood trails, there’s so much to take in (and with zero understanding of the situation). That said, Dead Space is a unique experience that uses its atmosphere to amplify tension throughout its formalist structure. In a formalistic sense, Dead Space is a “run and gun” game Issac is able to use a variety of weapons to take on the Necromorphs as he moves from objective to objective. It is then up to Issac to make every effort he can to reconnect with his crew and get out alive. Shortly after docking the Ishimura all goes to hell Isaac and crew are attacked and split up by a Necromorph, the alien lifeforms responsible for the station’s devastation. Said signal is coming from the USG Ishimura, where Isaac’s girlfriend also happens to be.
While its sequels would become those action-horror games with a greater emphasis on the former rather than the latter, the first Dead Space is a horrifying masterpiece.ĭeveloped by the late Visceral Studios, Dead Space puts you in the shoes of Isaac Clarke, an engineer sent with a team to answer a distress signal. The first entry of the Dead Space trilogy celebrates its 10 year anniversary today. One of those games is none other than Dead Space. There are plenty of titles in gaming that one can find this and wave their finger at, but there are also those titles that obtain a superb balance within action-horror. We tend to talk a lot about horror nowadays having too many jumpscares or how so many works throughout the genre are too “in-your-face” with violence, taking away from the suspense and dread of stories.
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