…and so is my 360…
Nyes! I can officially scratch Dead Space off of my list of ‘games to beat’!
I was waiting to beat the game before I sent my 360 console in for repair, but when it red-ringed on me the other day, I didn’t hesitate to put in the repair request. Now I won’t have to worry about the cost of my repair, but that also means I’m out of a system to play (and beat games) on. Instead of purchasing the arcade version when my 360 died on me, I opted to just use someone else’s 360 with my HD to play AND finish Dead Space. Simple enough, as I know more than a few people with 360s.
Dead Spaced out
Dead Space was given to me as an Xmas present, and I started playing it while on Xmas vacation. My cousin and I had just finished a Gears of War 2 horde session and were about to call it a night when we decided to pop the game in just to see the intro. That eerie “twinkle twinkle little star” rendition and the bloody cut scenes..creepy…I have no idea why we kept playing. I got to a part about 5-10min into the game when the creatures jumped up from ‘playing dead’ and I jumped too. That definitely freaked us out and we decided I’d have to continue playing the game in the morning. I wouldn’t want to see those things in my nightmares.
Every time someone asked me what the game was about, I’d say it reminded me a little of that movie ‘Event Horizon’ because at the start they were going to investigate a spaceship that they had lost contact with. With its elements of horror, the interesting story, and unique features ( like suit upgrades, stasis, Zero-G areas) Dead Space was a pretty good game overall but not without a few flaws.
The ability to upgrade your weapons and suit was a great feature of the game. Giving the player a choice for which weapon to buy and upgrade meant that every person’s experience would be different. My favorite was the Line gun, especially after a few power nodes. But I constantly seemed to run out of ammo. This was terrible when I was out of credits and far from the store. Sure you could hit the enemies with your fist, but that movement was a little slow for the fast moving creatures, and didn’t work well when you were being surrounded.
Using stasis to freeze or slow them down momentarily would help, but if your stasis was empty, you were on your own. But you couldn’t sell the power nodes for credits and stasis refill was a rare find after killing enemies, so you had to buy the refill.
Nearing the end of the game, there weren’t any new enemies and the areas were similar to those encountered at the beginning. At that point, I felt that the game started getting redundant and I was slowly losing interest. You knew what to expect from the enemies and I was just plowing through each level to get to the end.
*SPOILER* There was that cool tentacle monster at the end but you couldn’t skip the cutscene or any of the cutscenes in the game and that was a little frustrating.
Isaac and his infamous helmet finally came off in the end. The game wasn’t too hard to finish, things that made it easier was pressing down on the control stick showed you the path to follow and when you died, you didn’t always have to start from your save point, which saved a lot of time. *END SPOILER*
I did enjoy playing through the game, however, this sci-fi/horror genre was definitely to my liking even if it became a little too repetitive for me. Now on to the next game to finish….
Isaac! There IS a human under that infamous suit!
Another Update..
My 360 shipment box finally arrived today. It had to be lightest package I have ever received!
I opened it to find some foam, plastic and packaging instructions. Packing up my 360 was too easy!
Hope it has a safe trip and gets back to me soon!! I miss it already!
