Windows
Released: January 9, 2009
Price: $19.99
Only the Dead Survive.
A massive deep-space mining ship goes dark after unearthing a strange artifact on a distant planet. Engineer Isaac Clarke embarks on the repair mission, only to uncover a nightmarish blood bath the ship's crew horribly slaughtered and infected by alien scourge. Now Isaac is cut off, trapped, and engaged in a desperate fight for survival.
•Strategically dismember the Necromorph enemies limb by bloody limb.
•Zero gravity combat means terror can strike from anywhere.
•Uncover the horrific truth of this shocking thriller.
This feels like a console game - smoothed movement, unchangable (close up) third person perspective. The combat is also poor and frustrating - with guns that seem like they were meant to be used with auto-aim. Melee combat is completely useless.
Oh my, I couldn't disagree more. Dead Space is an amazing game, and the weapons are probably the best part of it aside from the atmosphere/tension. Love how things go to hell when you freak out IRL and thus lose accuracy in game.
I was annoyed that melee combat does nothing besides pushback and is so slow it can get you killed. Shooting off legs with a vertical gun isn't easy either, and I have pretty good aim. Lethal headshots would be nice, since they flail their arms a lot
While playing Dead Space 2, I found out by accident (don't know why they never mention it) that you can turn the plasma cutter with [space] - makes shooting a bit easier.
They do actually mention it in one of the little tutorial tips in around chapter 3 or 4; every weapon actually has an alternate firing mode, not just the plasma cutter.
For something that important I think they should mention it first, and in a way that's impossible to miss. The plasma cutter is pitiful if you don't know about that
Turn of VSync. It makes it almost impossible to aim in this game, also locks your FPS to just 30.
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